Hi Guys,

I'm looking for some roof bars or racks for my Felicia estate but not sure how they fit.

I've seen some cheap ones but they seem to fit to rails that run the full length of the car which I don't have.

Or is it possible to fit the roof rails from an old car?

Cheers, Martin

Do you have the mounting points for the rails??

 

I couldnt get rails to go on my Mitsubishi, but I discovered "Wispbar" have a roof bar kit that uses the rail mounting points. Thule also do kits, but these fit into the door rubbers to secure the bars, which can damage the rubbers and let water in.

 

For some reason the Wispbar website only shows the Felly Estate with Rails on its option list, so you would have to talk to someone and ask the question.

 

The downsides to the Wispa pars are

 

1/ They are very wide (85mm per bar), so many roof racks and boxes dont fit.

2/ They are a bit pricey at £180 (from theroofboxcompany).

 

The upsides are

 

1/ They are VERY quiet.

2/ They dont really effect mpg at all.

3/ The flush fittings and alloy bars look really good, even the extra wide "thru-bars" look pretty neat.

4/ They can carry 75Kg (if your roof can handle that much).

5/ They lock into place and the lock also covers a set of tools in case you need to remove them (ball hex key and small spanner).

 

Hi, I thought i'll resurrect this one, 

Found a seller of roof rails for Felicia, (I don't have, but wanna) but it seems that the rails need to be bolted on, which would require the roof to be drilled...

 

And that brought me to the question, how Skoda prepared the roofs for that? Surely they did not produce 2 different roof panels for the estate with / without roofracks??

 

I was hoping to see a roofrack that glues on with some magical-terribly-well-bonding-lasts-for-ever superglue. (so your average home-depot glue according to the marketing).

 

So... how are the roof rails are fitted onto the Felicias?

Thanks!

Z

As you have already said, they are bolted on.

 

The Combis not fitted at the factory with roof rails will have the rivnuts within the internal stiffening structure, to make use of them requires accurate drilling, not for the faint hearted.

I fully agree, not for the faint hearted. I would especially try to avoid any drilling considering the climate here, that not only supports, but strongly encourages rust.

Thanks! That's all i needed to make sure.

 

I just found measures for it off a russian blog. Sadly i was unable to find it in my english or Czech manuals, even though i have a body repair manual. (I think i got the set from here or from Ricardo, thanks for that!)

 

the scary thing here is that nr2 nut from the 2nd picture. Apparently you need to add there something special. So from factory, there's no metric nut welded in?

I thought there would be!

 

 

It could be that its a part number to replace the factory fitted rivnut if it is there, it could be that the hole is punched in the rail but you have to fit the rivnuts (no big deal) or it could be that you have to drill through both to fit the rivnuts, unlikely IMO.

 

Drill a 3mm hole (easier to repair if you are miles out!) and have a wiggle around inside with a probe to see if you are central and if there is a thread below, it looks like a 7mm hole for a 6mm fastener so drill through with a 5mm bit biasing to correct any misalignment, if you follow that with a 10mm or bigger countersink bit it will self centre the hole, chamfer the top edge and not damage the threads although in a rivnut they start below flush so you have some protection.