Hi all,

I'm just wondering is there a best position to mount some Thule Roof bars to the rails on the Mk3 Combi/Estate?

I've seen on other places that Skoda have done diagrams with measurements on them (like attached for the Enyaq), but I can't find anything for legacy or archived models.

All help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Dave

Depends what you're carrying?

8 minutes ago, StevesTruck said:

Depends what you're carrying?

Will be either a Thule roof box, or the odd trip from Ikea with boxes that do not fit in the car

Thanks for the reply!

I presume you have raised rails rather than the flush rails in the picture.

The load will be transferred to the mountings at each end, so it shouldn’t really matter too much, unless you are carrying something which is particularly heavy. The handbook should state the maximum load allowed.

With my Halfords roofbox, the mountings are a fixed distance apart, so there isn’t much choice, except a bit of fore and aft movement.

When I had a Passat with flush rails, I used to fit the bars fairly close to the B and C pillars.

2 minutes ago, daveo138 said:

I presume you have raised rails rather than the flush rails in the picture.

The load will be transferred to the mountings at each end, so it shouldn’t really matter too much, unless you are carrying something which is particularly heavy. The handbook should state the maximum load allowed.

With my Halfords roofbox, the mountings are a fixed distance apart, so there isn’t much choice, except a bit of fore and aft movement.

When I had a Passat with flush rails, I used to fit the bars fairly close to the B and C pillars.

Hi, yes they are the raised rails on the car.

I believe the maximum weight for the roof bars is 75kgs, and can't see why I'd be going over that.

The Thule roof boxes have some fore and aft movement inbuilt I think.

I would imagine the aim is to avoid weight shifting to the wrong point in harsh braking.

In the two examples above the critical bar for positioning is the front one.

Close to or on the door pillar not on the slope down to the screen. The rear bar position is more variable

When I was using my Halfords roof box, oddly it's made by Thule, I had the front bar as far forwards as I could and the rear was about in the middle of the rear doors. Ultimately it will depend on the size of your roof box, my advice would be when you do the first fit leave the boot open as it opens at nearly 90 degrees so can crash into any roof box, with larger loads I would put them in the middle of each.door frame.