Technical How to fit roof bars on car with awning?

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Technical How to fit roof bars on car with awning?

Helgeo

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I'm getting a 2010 Ducato Maxi XL van later this week. It is fitted with an Awning (Omnistor I belive). I also want to fit a pair of roof bars- Thule or similar. How can I best do this? I believe I need some kind of bracket or adapter that enables the awning and the bars to share the same fix-points?
 
Have now found out that the awning is a Fiamma F65S. It does not look like an adaptor is available so I plan to make my own and attach it to the awning bracket.

Does anyone know how many fix-points there are on a Ducato Maxi? How far apart are they spaced?
 
Well, I have quite long arms :) And with the help of a telescopic ladder I shall be able to reach my windsurfing gear up there.
 
Hi anyone out there at this late hour......Am going to buy my first ever camper tomorrow, a Pegaso 1999 tomorrow and am panicking....what are the major faults?? It all looks good, engine sounds nice, breaks straight, didn't get up past fourth gear but seems fine......any reassurance or things to be aware of before I hand over the money?? THANKS
 
I'll respond to my own questions. Picked up the car last weekend. It has 5 fixpoints on each side. One is way forward and the other 4 are evenly spaced from the rear with about 60 cm spacing (maybe more, did not measure).

I bought an extra set of Fiamma awning brackets for the Ducato fixpoints which I modifyed by cutting off the actual awning mounts. Then I installed an aluminium "L" profile to this bracket. And finally I installed the Thule XT751 foot to this L profile. The result is that the Thule foot is shifted about 5 cm inwards from the original fix point location and now it clears the awning with a couple of cm.

The roof bars are not sharing fixpoints with the awning. But it would be possible to make a similar solution for shared fix points as well.

So now I can go windsurfing and still be able to cool down in the shade :)
 
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Hi anyone out there at this late hour......Am going to buy my first ever camper tomorrow, a Pegaso 1999 tomorrow and am panicking....what are the major faults?? It all looks good, engine sounds nice, breaks straight, didn't get up past fourth gear but seems fine......any reassurance or things to be aware of before I hand over the money?? THANKS

Start your own thread if you want a response. Did you buy the van?
 
I'll respond to my own questions. Picked up the car last weekend. It has 5 fixpoints on each side. One is way forward and the other 4 are evenly spaced from the rear with about 60 cm spacing (maybe more, did not measure).

I bought an extra set of Fiamma awning brackets for the Ducato fixpoints which I modifyed by cutting off the actual awning mounts. Then I installed an aluminium "L" profile to this bracket. And finally I installed the Thule XT751 foot to this L profile. The result is that the Thule foot is shifted about 5 cm inwards from the original fix point location and now it clears the awning with a couple of cm.

The roof bars are not sharing fixpoints with the awning. But it would be possible to make a similar solution for shared fix points as well.

So now I can go windsurfing and still be able to cool down in the shade :)

Well done :) is the combination rack + l profile + thule bars rigid?

Good to get the gear on the roof the salt tends to make a mess of everything when the gear goes inside.
 
Helgeo, I am about to install roof rack and ski box to my 2005 ducato with awning also. Do you have pictures of your system. Thanks in advance.
 
Hi Weetapix, did you ever manage to install your roof bars and if so how? I want to on a 2004 Ducato.
John
 
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