Whispbar HD roof bars package - T16 bars with K308 kit

Whispbar HD roof bars package - T16 bars with K308 kit to fit your Isuzu Rodeo double cab (2003 to 2011)

The Whispbar HD series produce 70% less drag than other heavy-duty commercial roof bars. The innovative Smartfoot system allows the same feet to be used for all roof-fixing types – from Fixpoints to roof rails. This makes it easy and inexpensive to transfer the bars between virtually any vehicle.

Features:

• Locks come as standard
• Uses the innovative Smartfoot system
• Integrated tie-down points
• “Owl wing” wind noise reducers
• Integrated rubber load strips also protect the bars
• Arrive fully assembled
• Length = 120cm
• Please check your vehicle's maximum load limit
• Approximate weight = 6kgs

Whispbar is a major player in the global car rack systems sector, already making roof bars as original equipment for several major car manufacturers. Whispbar is the culmination of many years of design and innovation, with Prorack’s chief designer transferring his aeronautical design experience and know how to the roof rack sector, working closely with the engineering school at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Delivery charges and arrangements:

At the moment there are no delivery charges for Rhino roof bars and roof racks, and associated accessories, ordered from van-racks.co.uk, except for any delivery including a sea crossing, and deliveries to Skye. If your delivery falls into this category we will contact you with a quote on receipt of your order.

All Rhino Products orders need to be placed by 3:30pm for Express Delivery; the cut off time for other brands is 4pm. At the moment neither we nor Rhino Products are able to offer a reliable Next Working Day delivery service, because of pressure on the UK courier network due to the coronavirus crisis and the increase in online shopping. We therefore offer an Express Delivery service, where many orders will arrive on the next working day, but many will arrive a day later, or be split across the two days. There is unfortunately nothing that we can do to change this.

There are no deliveries on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays, except for postable items where Royal Mail has a Saturday delivery. Express Delivery orders placed on a Friday will therefore be delivered from the Monday, and Express Delivery orders placed on a Saturday will be delivered from the Tuesday.

We are very flexible with our deliveries and will aim to deliver at an address which suits you. Rhino roof bars and roof rack orders need to be signed for; note that there's a "Special Delivery Instructions" box in the checkout area.

No retailer or courier company can ever "guarantee" a Next Working Day delivery. All courier companies occasionally have the same transport problems as can happen to everyone else, including snow blocked roads, closed roads, traffic jams, mechanical breakdown, an inability to find the delivery address, or to gain access to it if, for example, it's in a block of flats. We work with some of the best couriers in the business, and overall they provide an outstanding service.

Payment options:

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Roof Tents should NOT be fitted to vehicles with clamp-mount roof bars

Roof top tents are becoming increasingly popular, but we advise they should not be carried on vehicles that use clamp-mount roof bars. There is too much risk of damage to the roof, which would also be a massive safety issue because the roof bar clamps would not work correctly.

Clamp-mount roof bars

If you are reading these notes then your vehicle has a plain roof and uses clamp-mount roof bars.

Our advice is that plain roof vehicles are not suitable for carrying roof top tents; we only recommend fitting roof tents to vehicles with roof rails, fix points, T-tracks or gutters, because here the roof bars and the roof load sit on the roof welds, where the sides of the vehicle are welded to the roof part; these are strong points. Clamp-mount systems for modern cars often sit outside these roof welds, on the ordinary unreinforced roof steel towards the edges of the vehicle roof.

The danger is that a plain roof may well not be strong enough to cope with the static weight of a roof tent and the occupants. This weight can cause the roof bar feet to make dents in the roof, which not only damages the vehicle but means that the clamping plates can no longer work as designed, so the safety of the whole roof bar system is compromised.

The weight of a tent can easily be 65kg (hard top tents can be over 75kg) plus roof bars at 8kg and two adults at let’s say 90kg each, that’s a total 253kg, well over 3 times the typical 75kg dynamic loading limit. If there are three occupants at let’s say 80kg each then we get to 313kg.

We supply tents made by Thule and by Yakima, respectively the world’s biggest and second biggest car rack manufacturers. Their tent instructions state that clamp-mount roof bars are not suitable for plain roof bars - ‘DO NOT use’. These brands would not turn away business if this matter is not important.

Thule's guidelines or instructions should be available via the Fitting instructions and videos tab.

We realise that this advice is confusing because these specific instructions are part of Thule’s and Yakima’s roof tent instructions, but are not included in their roof bar fitting instructions. We also supply CRUZ and Atera roof bars; again, no mention is made of roof tents in their roof bar instructions.

It is the roof bar feet that can make dents in vehicle roofs, even though it is a roof tent plus human(s) that caused the overloading; where we have supplied the roof bars, customers may look to us for repairs to their vehicles. The safety implications are a much bigger worry for us than the vehicle damage implications, which is why the safe option is to advise that no roof tents should be fitted to clamp-mount roof bars – all roof tents are very heavy, and many or indeed most of them are heavier than Thule or Yakima tents.

We can only advise you; we can’t stop you from carrying inappropriate loads. But if you do purchase clamp-mount roof bars from us, and use them for carrying roof tents, even where you have informed us that you wish to carry a tent, it is reasonable that we will accept no liability for damage to the vehicle, to the roof tent, or to third parties. If in doubt, we suggest that you obtain a written statement from the roof tent supplier to the effect that their tent may be carried on clamp-mount roof bars; this should provide you with some ‘cover’ in the event of any need for a claim.

Roof top platforms

Full size platforms such as the Thule Caprock and the Yakima LockNLoad platform should also not be used on clamp-mount roof bars; they tend to be heavily loaded, and to be walked on.

Please click on the pdf symbol below to see the fitting instructions:

Whispbar HD 120cm heavy duty bars (2) no. PRT16

Whispbar Smartfoot fitting kit no. PRK308