ARKSEN 43 x 50 x 6 Inch Universal Extra Wide 150LB Heavy Duty Roof Rack Cargo with Extension Car Top Luggage Holder Carrier Basket for SUV, Truck, & Car Steel Construction

I just wanted to come back and update this review now that I've had it for 2 years. I didn't do anything special to it as others have said they did to theirs. The paint and overall finish of the metal has held up very well. I had no issues with it when I was in the midwest even during some harsh winters. The only time I had an issue with it was after I moved to Florida. It has started to rust after being here for a year but the rack itself isn't that bad. It's majority surface rust that cam be removed with a Scotch Brite pad and I'm planning on repainting it here soon. The worst areas for rust is in the mounting hardware itself. The bolts and nuts and wing nuts that hold it to your crossbars will absolutely need sunlight and penetrating lubricant to break them free without stripping the plastic wingnuts. I had to remove my crossbars to get my rack off today and it was a real pain. Especially more so now that I have to measure the overhang of my cross bars when I go to put my crossbars back on again to make sure they're even on all sides. But other than for that I have had absolutely 0 problems with my rack in the 2 years I've had it and it has become a permanent installation to my suv since i've had it. People know me when they see me just because of it. It's long enough and wide enough to accommodate a cargo box and have plenty of room on the other side of the rack for other various camping gear. This rack is the next best option I have compared to others on the market. The only downside is that it is not a direct mount to the roof and there's no options for it to be without rails and crossbars. That's also a downside to my suv in general also since there doesn't seem to be any aftermarket support for direct to roof mounting. So for those reasons, I selected this rack 2 years ago and have been happy with it since then.

Received this 2 weeks early and put it together last night. Pretty easy to put together with no bent or damaged pieces. Had to work to get a couple of holes to line up but nothing too bad. This rack appears very well built and it very sturdy once assembled. We did get it mounted as well and my only complaint is the mounting brackets and silver screws. Screws should be black and I will have to paint them. The mounting brackets only fit perfectly in certain areas of the rack and not really where I want them. Going to work with them a little more and actually changed how they go together to make the rack sit more flush on my rails. This is a minor issue I will work with more this weekend. Rack is study, no rattles at 65 - 70 on the HWY this morning and no wind noise I could notice. Looks great and I will add a photo later. I will also update this if anything changes.

After reading reviews mentioning shipping damage, I gave mine a good inspection. Everything looked good...no bent tubes, no damage, components were packed really well. Mating parts slipped together quite easily, and nothing was misaligned. After a dry fit test, I disassembled and gave each slip-in part a dose of black silicone caulking before fitting together to minimize vibration and water intrusion from rain...this I'd strongly recommend. Just apply a generous amount of silicone (I put a large blob onto a piece of scrap wood and used a tongue depressor stick to "butter" the pieces) and wipe off the excess after fitting together. All screws and U-bolts are metric M6x1mm thread pitch. I replaced the included screws with 18-8 stainless steel screws with a black oxide coating so they'd blend in with the black rack (got them at McMaster-Carr); the tulip-looking nuts for the U-bolts will stick up above the floor of the rack, so I replaced them M6 nyloc locknuts. If the U-bolts protrude about the floor of the rack (mine did) you can cut off the excess with an angle grinder or a Dremel (see the last image). The rack came with a nice textured finish and required only minor touch-up, so I sprayed it with a coat of Herculiner. The only nit was the front fairing...I didn't like the fit (wouldn't sit flat) so I simply left it off. All in all, I was pretty surprised at the quality of the rack. It may not be a Yakima or a Thule, but it didn't cost as much as those either. I'm using the 50" x 64" model, which doesn't seem as large on the roof of my '95 4WD Suburban. No complaints whatsoever. EDIT: As I mentioned, I replaced the flower-looking nuts with stainless steel M6 nyloc locknuts. I was able to find some protective covers on Amazon to cover the exposed threads of the U-bolts to minimize any corrosion. These can be seen in the last pic. Just need a sharp utility blade to cut the covers down to the proper length to cover the threads. Just search 'round rubber end caps' on Amazon and you'll find them.

A really nice cargo basket. Very happy with this. I will say the customer service on this item was amazing. The first one I got had a bend in the tubbing where it connects together. I got in contact with the seller sent some pictures and within a day they had the process of the replacement product on the way. Extremely happy with the customer service. Very easy to put together probably took 30 minutes to assemble. It also seems very sturdy. Couldn't tell any noise for it after putting it on my cross bars. Definitely roomy for things to be put in it.

I bought this roof rack cargo for my wife's minivan, and I am very impressed with it. It is a large and sturdy cargo basket that can hold a lot of stuff. We've used it for a camping trip, and it fits our tents, sleeping bags, coolers, and other gear. The cargo basket is easy to install and secure on the crossbars, and it comes with a wind fairing that reduces the noise and drag. It is a great product for anyone who needs extra storage space on their vehicle.

Was looking for a roof rack that would fit on my tahoe better than a smaller one I had that just didn't look right being too small. Very happy with how it looks and was easy to assemble. Some rtv where tubes slide together to seal helps with water intrusion and the rust that would follow.

The many reviews about rusting did not bother me as I live in the desert where rain, even rust-producing rain, is a rare blessing. I also plan to mount the rack only when going on a camping trip and the like, storing the rack out of the elements when not in use, so rusting isn't a concern. That said, I could see what people were complaining about, given that there are plenty of opportunities for water to enter the insides of the pipes. Assembly was fine, though the instruction sheets could have eliminated the need to put some thought into it. You wonder what the big end caps are for the pipe ends on the front-most and rear-most sections, why you have 8 spacers instead of just 4 for the lower four mounts for the faring, what the rear side plate is for, and why they didn't supply black screws and nuts rather than chrome ones that are very visible against the flat black pipes and faring. Nevertheless, the cargo rack feels strong and sturdy, and I have no doubt that it’ll hold weights as advertised. But what knocked this down to 2-1/2 stars (rounded up because the rack itself feels solid) are the mounts. In theory, the mounts will fit crossbars of the elliptical, aerodynamic kind, which is what my 2006 Land Rover LR3 has. Unfortunately, there are three serious problems. One is that the design requires the crossbars to be fully adjustable, able to slide back and forth so that the bar is perfectly centered between two of the rack's 50 inch crosswise pipes. That’s needed because the mounts’ plastic “saddles” (the pieces that connect the top of the crossbars with the rack itself) are designed to accept those two pipes and secure them in place. On an LR3 (and I assume most Land Rovers), the factory crossbars only lock into specific positions on the truck’s rails, and those positions aren’t 100% compatible with the rack’s pipe spacing. Obviously you can move the rack as needed to get the front set of two pipes to hover over the front crossbar the right way, but above the rear crossbar will be a single pipe (rather than two), and that one isn’t in the right spot to fit snuggly into the saddle. If you aren’t handy with doing the fix I mention below and your vehicle’s crossbars can’t be slid a few inches forward or backward as you need, do NOT buy this rack. Those with narrow cross-“pipes” that are fixed in place rather than crossbars will likely be OK given that you have more wiggle room, but the crosspipe might not be in the middle of the saddle as intended. The second problem is that the people in the Arken division that makes the racks don’t talk to the people in the mount division. The rack’s crosswise pipe spacing is erratic, so that the distance between any two pipes varies. The problem is that the saddle requires a very specific pipe spacing. It was impossible to get the saddle to snap into place between the pipes near the front and the rear. The saddles’ dimensions are uniform (they come out of a plastic molding machine so they should be), but except for one randomly spaced pair of pipes that were the right size, you can’t be sure you can use these saddles. Note that it is quite possible that many people don’t have this problem because the welder on the factory line wasn’t drunk that day, but for me, the tolerances weren’t quite right. There is nothing wrong with the rack’s structural integrity, only with the workpersonship of the factory assembly in regard to the mount design. It’s close, but usually not wide enough. And the third problem is that the “cutouts” on the saddle that are designed to accept the pipes and give them a nice, secure home to rest in once the upper metal plate is screwed into place, are simply too small. The instruction sheets shows the metal plate sitting flush on the saddle when the wingnuts are torqued down, but that isn’t possible with the saddles I received. About half of the rack’s crosswide pipes sit above the cutout, which means that the metal plate is suspended about a half inch above the saddle even when screwed into place. It would have been far more secure to have the plate and the saddle against each other and allowing no potential for movement for the pipes when sitting in their little slots, but that’s not possible as designed. Is it a safety issue? Unclear, but with only four mounts and nearly 200 pounds of cargo sitting above your head, you want it to be perfect. So if you want this rack (and it does look pretty cool and it’s sturdy enough for camping trips when used responsibly), you have two choices if the mounts don’t work for you out of the box as they didn’t for me: 1) Throw the mounts away and go look for other options. Your crossbar manufacture might have mounts for other purposes that can be used here. 2) Do what I did and bring out your electric rotary cutter with a diamond grit tile & countertop rotary tool. First, I burred away enough plastic on the saddles to give them just enough clearance to snap between two rack pipes where I wanted them. I placed the rack so that the front saddles sat nice on the front crossbar, and then screwed the metal plate onto the U-shaped wire, though the plate never actually touched the saddle for the 3rd issue mentioned above (I probably should have also used the rotary cutter to dig into the saddle a bit so the rack sat lower…another time…). I then made a single depression in the rear saddles so that the single pipe that sat over the rear crossbar dropped into the middle of the saddle all nice. I would have rather have had two pipes in there, but I’m not able to adjust the crossbar positions. The upside of this is that because I did the design work, the plate and saddle are flush and secure. YMMV, but I found this cargo rack to be a small challenge due to poor design and manufacturing of the mounts. Too bad, because the rack itself is a good deal. Nick in Palm Springs

Great buy for the price. Solid and heavy metal… durable cargo nets and straps..