ARKSEN 64 x 39 x 6 Inch Universal 150LB Heavy Duty Roof Rack Cargo with Extension Car Top Luggage Holder Carrier Basket for SUV, Truck, & Car Steel Construction

Very nice for the price. Some commented about the screws rusting. So I spent $20.00 and bought all stainless steal screws to assemble the unit. Then I painted the screw heads with black nail polish to give them even more protection. Looks great on top of my Expedition. Will hold all my camping gear nicely.

I liked the packaging. The simplicity of putting it together. The 64" one looked big at first but once assembled and mounted it looks great. Doesnt seem cheap and all the parts fit and we're accounted for. I also had to flip the bottom piece upside down that mounts the rack to the cross members. That took longer trying to get it to fit right and not move than the other portions of the assembly. The only issue I have is when you use the smaller screws to keep all 3 parts for the basket together and the plates on the outside that the screw heads are almost the size of the hole for the plate. I solved this by applying washers on there with it so they don't dig through the edges of the whole and ruin it. Besides that I was happy with how quick it came and the quality of the product. I love the open spots on the plates to be able to slap some stickers on it!

Assembly is very easy, but you need to plan first. Make sure you have some snips on side cutter on hand. There are a lot of zip ties. Next, use red thread locker with every screw. They are tight, but don't take the chance. Do not use the supplied allen wrench. Use a hex fitting on an impact wrench. Be careful not to over tighten and strip the bolt. You only need to go until you here the first click. Assembling the rack is simple and the directions aren't bad. Make sure you follow the assembly order or things won't fit. If I were mounting this permanently on my truck I would put shrink tubing over all the joints and get some really good, thick rust prevention coating. The welds are really poor quality, but for the price, it's what was expected. I mounted this on a 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR5 with dual cab. My rails are OEM. The tube spacing isn't perfect to mate up with my truck roof rails, but it's good enough. The rack does mount securely. When I grab it to shake it, the entire truck moves. This rack does come with a lot of road noise. On the interstate, it sounds like a jet engine. This will be good enough for my move out-of-state, but it will not be permanently mounted. The road noise and wind noise become extreme above 40mph.

I installed this roof rack on a 2020 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid. The roof rack took about 45-60 minutes to put together myself. Lots of screws and lots of packaging that needed to be thrown out (like zip ties). I found the fit of the screw threading and the male/female insertion points on the rack pieces was very good. I was afraid this would be too big but it looks right on the car, proportionate. The rack hardware also installed easily on the car (the clamps that connect the rack to the roof rack bars). Only issue is that this rack is not a 100% clean fit with the 2020 Rav4 roof bars. More like 95%, just slightly off. But it fits close enough, feels solid and sturdy, and I will use it and not return it, but just flagging it for other owners of the 2020 Rav 4 (this may also apply to some Lexus models since I think the Rav4 and Lexus SUVs use the same roof bars). It looks good from the road. You would have to be eye level to the roof bars to see that it is not 100% fit. The Rav4 roof bars are mounted in a fixed position, cannot be adjusted, so that wouldn't help with fit for this roof rack. Also glad that this item shipped very fast by Fedex. Very happy about that.

Very sturdy yet pleasantly light to handle. Very reasonably priced. It was less than 1/3 the cost of the smaller version dealer/name brand racks. The rack is rated for 250 pounds of cargo but be sure to verify your car's weight limits (inside driver's door). This may be too much rack when loaded. We chose the 3 piece basket, a like sized waterproof bag and bungy net for complete versatility of sizes/weather conditions for all possible future needs. We chose a basket primarily for out of town shopping because an enclosed carrier is much smaller in volume and unforgiving of square/rigid items. This is a BIG basket with all 3 pieces, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It is approximately as large as the top of your car. I recommend having two people install it on your car. (Take a step stool with you.) I wish the brackets attached to the basket and then attached to car's crossbars so they would be in the right place the next time you put the basket on the car. Instead, you have to remove the brackets, keeping all the pieces in the right order, not losing any washers, and replacing onto the basket or storing without losing. The instructions are horrible, worthless actually. It was easy to figure out how to put it together but there were pieces in the sack that were absent from the instructions and we found no use for them. We plan to add lock washers to all bolts, especially the brackets, so nothing can loosen or get lost with road vibration. We just took our first trip (empty) with no problems except this rack does add a lot of road noise! We had to close the inner headliner to the sunroof to make the trip tolerable. We wonder if removing the front "spoiler" would make it travel better when empty but would be a lot of trouble unless the supplied nuts are replaced with easier to use wingnuts.