Rage Roof Basket Review $144.00 Shipped

[cico7]

Sand and spray on truck bed lining will do the job.

[Sal-XK]

Ok after a summer of camping and wheeling with this basket all an all it has held up rather well. The last trip a calculated my weight for my camping gear. I've been roughly putting about 300 to 400 pounds of gear up there for every trip which I have taken about 9 trips this summer. About three or four of them have been to the beach where the basket was exposed to sea spray. The humidity hear in NC has been about 100% since may LOL. So considering the abuse I have put this budget rack threw it's been a heck of a buy so far. I do have two spots of minor surface rust that showed up on one of the welds which is no big deal 5 minuets of work and it was fixed. The mesh floor is still sitting flat and holding up strong. The home made mounts have been awesome no issues what so ever with them and they take up no floor space at all. Like I have said earlier I also hit this basket on a number of things like trees my kids basketball hoop and countless branches and leaves hanging low on the trails even bending my light mounts almost in half and the basket shows almost no wear at all. At this point I probably would recommend this basket to others looking to save money. I've also kept my XK parked outside all summer so the basket has been exposed to the humidity and rain all summer so its not like it was garage kept all though it is now. I can't say the winter will add any extra stress on it down here we really don't get any snow and we don't use salt when we do. But the salt water and sea spray from the beach is probably in some comparison to some winter months up north maybe.

[Doc in AZ]

Sand and spray on truck bed lining will do the job.

just out of curiosity what is everyone's obsession with spray on bedliner these days? i can understand lining the inside of a wrangler tub when you take out all the carpet. but i see guys rhino lining their cages, bumpers & rock sliders. i had a cj7 in here a couple months ago and when i opened the hood i realized the guy had rhino lined the inside of the hood! a wrangler unlimited came in last year with a fibreglass hard top on it that had been completely rhino lined.

people think this stuff is indestructible - it's not. i can be scraped off by a rock or cargo you load in a truck bed or on a roof rack. and once you knock it loose it will continue to peel back, or worse yet gets water and dirt in there and begins to corrode from the inside out all under the bedliner and you won't notice it until it's rusted through.

JMHO

[Sal-XK]

I linked this today so it reminded me I needed to update it. The winter is over down here at least its over. The XK spent some time up north in the snow which had no effect on the condition of my basket. It's pretty much no worse no better then it was when I wrote the 4 month review so I guess thats a good thing.

[IamJEEP]

I linked this today so it reminded me I needed to update it. The winter is over down here at least its over. The XK spent some time up north in the snow which had no effect on the condition of my basket. It's pretty much no worse no better then it was when I wrote the 4 month review so I guess thats a good thing.

That's great news, I can't wait to start moddifing mine in a month or so.