Much more than any roof carrier just completed 4 900 mile road trip with 4 adults luggage for 20 days and it worked great.
Roof bag gas mileage.
Any roof carrier will cut your mpg significantly.
I have roof rails on my 2015 honda odyssey but to me its looks like the hitch cargo carrier is better.
Hi do you guys prefer a hitch cargo carriers over a roof bag.
Plus the rack with bag weighted 65 and would carry 500 total weight vs.
5 6 l 100 km approx.
I have a 2009 chrylser aspen and at the end of the month will be driving from ny to south carolina i will be traveling with my wife two children and mother in law so space is extremely limited.
It is a sturdy sporty rack made from high quality parts.
42 mpg roof rack with thule dynamic 800 aerodynamic cargo box.
Just wondering your recommendation.
Even though they might look like they cut through the wind they.
A drop of 7 percent may not sound like much but it adds up over time.
Do roof top cargo bags affect gas mileage question.
5 9 l 100 km approx.
With this rear hitch the rear lid will operate.
At 52 pounds it is relatively heavy duty roof top carrier.
Steel wind fairing helps to reduce wind resistance and noise as well as improve gas mileage.
I am currently your biggest fan.
This means that adding an empty roof rack to a car that usually gets 35 mpg will drop the gas mileage to 32 5 mpg.
6 0 l 100 km approx.
40 mpg roof mounted thule xtender 739 ski carrier with skis.
2 justin roof bag roof top cargo carrier bag 19 cubic feet 3 roofbag rooftop cargo carrier bag 15 cubic feet.
The same of course applies to roof racks and other cargo accessories.
Say you drive your car 200 miles in a week which is easy to do with even a short work commute.
Im definitely buying from you guys.
He found that compared to the baseline of no roof rack the empty rack reduced his mpg by 12 7 and the roof rack with a bicycle reduced it by a whooping 27 3.
Your videos are great.
The roof rack mpg experiment he compared the gas mileage of his car at 54 7 mph 88 kph with 1 no roof racks 2 an empty roof rack and 3 a mountain bike on the roof rack.
39 mpg thus the cargo box on the roof increased fuel consumption by about 5 compared to the baseline.