Evening all,

I've read some discussion on this here already, but can't find it now. Having bought a Saris bones 3 rack second hand, I endeavoured to fit it yesterday. Over 2 hours later, I had 2 bikes in the boot and 2 on the Saris. Main problems were, firstly fitting the lower straps to bottom of boot lid. I could not do this without lifting boot lid up slightly. This, in turn causes hatch huggers to move up into boot hinge area. This is exacerbated when opening boot further to get bikes out. Dealt with by slackening upper straps before opening boot, but still needed to lift up rack before closing boot down. On top of this, upper feet seemed to jump around a bit on rear windscreen, while driving, despite repeated tightening of straps. Am I just being a complete numpty, or is there a method to fixing this fella with minimal stress? Thanks for any advice. 

Yeah, it's a bit of a faf! I had the bones 3 but then found out the rapid will only take 2 bikes.... Hey oh!

Did you manage to attach the Bones without lifting the boot?