What are you going to put up there? If your going to boats up there
get the longer ones.
My $0.02

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:10:42 -0500, Jean-Pierre Le Cruguel
<jlecruguel@aei.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the opportunity to get a cheap Thule roof rack.
> I am trying to find the optimal lenght for the bar.
> I do not find what I am looking for in the archives.
> I have some gutter mounts, drilled into the pop top.
> From the dimensions
> (http://www.members.shaw.ca/bilbo/van%20diagrams.html), width goes from
> 154 cm (60inches) to 180cm (71in).
> Gutter to gutter is close to 60.
> I guess the 58 bars are too short or it will barely make it (I think
> Thule has 50,53,58 and 70 inches bars, (and smaller ones too)).
> Has anyone tried 58' bars on gutters or poptop? is that long enough?
> Just wondering about the extra-room (nice to handle my luggage box on
> one side and windsurfing boards on the other) on the westy and the
> compatibility with my passat (70' will be too wide).
>
> JP
> Just found one of my old post on this in the archive
> http://www.thuleracks.com/thule/fg_vehicle.asp
> Thule says 58 will fit...
>