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So I thought I’d try and save some money and buy my tie down rings from bunnings. I bought M8 nuts and eye bolts as per the specs I found on the frontrunner website, but the nuts are actually too tall for the sunken track in the rack panels.
Has anyone else run into this problem or has any suggestions for the right sized parts? I looked high and low juSt to get these!
It’s worth noting that frontrunner uses an eye nut + bolt, whereas what bunning offers is an eye bolt and nut, if that makes sense
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Haha. Been there done that. Ended up going to opposite lock and get generic tie down m8's at $12 a pair.
A mate has had better luck with m8 tie downs $3ea from bunning with the front runners... cant be bothered ..
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How much you saving, Frontrunner sell a pair of black galv tiedowns for $11?
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How much you saving, Frontrunner sell a pair of black galv tiedowns for $11?
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The ring nuts from bunnings are $1.25 each, so it’s reasonably significant, plus bunnings is 1km from my house and opposite lock is 35km away
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The ring nuts from bunnings are $1.25 each, so it’s reasonably significant, plus bunnings is 1km from my house and opposite lock is 35km away
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Yeh they should be cheap. But i guess you dont buy them all the time. Get 6-8 and keep em handy. They'll last a lifetime.
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I work for Yakima a roof rack company who design racks, if the sticker says 68kg on your car then 68kg is the max load you can load up, you need to take in to account the weight of the racks and a tray.
Take the Jeep GC with a front Runner rack on it, the rating for the roof is 68kg the Front Runner rack weighs in at 27kg, this only allows you 41kg on the roof, any more exceeds Jeeps rating for the car.
It doesnt matter if a roof rack company like Front Runner say it can take 120kg, you are limited by the vehicle manufactures limits that they have given you.
Also bear in mind as soon as you head off road, nearly all the popular roof rack company's have a -25% weight reduction on their roof racks, everyone forgets this and generally overloads there roofs with way to much gear, in the event you have a accident or rip the mounting points of you car due to washouts, corrugations etc the vehicle manufacture is not going to look after you because you overloaded their roof, they have that rating there for a reason, will Front Runner or any other brand cover the cost to fix it ??, doubt it.
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I work for Yakima a roof rack company who design racks, if the sticker says 68kg on your car then 68kg is the max load you can load up, you need to take in to account the weight of the racks and a tray.
Take the Jeep GC with a front Runner rack on it, the rating for the roof is 68kg the Front Runner rack weighs in at 27kg, this only allows you 41kg on the roof, any more exceeds Jeeps rating for the car.
It doesnt matter if a roof rack company like Front Runner say it can take 120kg, you are limited by the vehicle manufactures limits that they have given you.
Also bear in mind as soon as you head off road, nearly all the popular roof rack company's have a -25% weight reduction on their roof racks, everyone forgets this and generally overloads there roofs with way to much gear, in the event you have a accident or rip the mounting points of you car due to washouts, corrugations etc the vehicle manufacture is not going to look after you because you overloaded their roof, they have that rating there for a reason, will Front Runner or any other brand cover the cost to fix it ??, doubt it.
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Spot on, insurance will first find your mistakes to avoid claims. As for jeeps, the load rating is not much at all and easily capable of over doing.
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So as it turns out bunnings does stick the right, rated stuff.
Ring nut - $1.25
Nylon washer - $0.25
Bolt - $1.
A significant saving over genuine frontrunner for the same/similar outcome.
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