ATERA roof bars

[otherclive]

I need to buy some new roof bars and my car has fixed points for mounting the bars. I’m attracted to a German make by ATERA, which come ready assembled for the car. So no fiddling around with bits and bobs. Whilst they have a groove for T slot fixings they don’t use plastic strips to fill the groove, yet are considered to be amongst the quieter products on the market.

Has anyone any experience of using these roof bars.

Atera SIGNO ASF Fixpoint silver aero-profile bars AR7369

Atera have taken their time to develop a low noise, low drag aerofoil bar profile, but the wait has been well worth it; these bars trump all others for useability, quite apart from their superb design and looks!The big breakthrough is that you don't need to plug the slots with rubber strips to...

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[otherclive]

I bought the Atera bars for fixed mounting points and they came already assembled and easy to fit once the transverse measurements on the car were even. and the bars centralised. They are well made and at £100 less than the equivalent Thule are worth it. I took the car for a run just with the bars fitted and they are quiet even at dual carriageway speed.

My uncertainty was whether the Hapro roof box would fit given the Rav 4 has mounting points at 890mm between the front to rear bars whereas my roof box is 850mm. Fortunately after chatting to the Roof Box company they recommended that I use Hapro/Atera T slot fasteners, as they don't take up so much of the length of the fastening slots as do the Masterful/Premium fit wind on claw fasteners. So I bought a set of T slot fasteners and lo and behold I can still use two Masterfiit/Premium fit claw type fasteners at the front, and two T slot fasteners at the rear. So no requirement to buy another roofbox. Ive posted a few pictures of the relevant bits and highly recommend Roofbox Company as a source of good advice and keenly priced kit. Changing cars and roof mounted kit is on a par with buying new awnings when you change caravan, albeit not quite s expensive,