The Nissan Path

Hey everyone, just wanted to share what I did with my luggage rack. Instead of purchasing the actual cross members for the rack, I found a couple pieces of 1"x1" aluminum Picket and screwed them through the side pieces via internal screw grooves. Tell me if you think it looks ghetto. It holds very well, I got up and stood on one of them to see if it would hold me and it did ok but I only weigh 160lbs but I'm not planning on hauling anything over 200lbs on top so it should hold up fine. Here's some pics.

I don't think it looks bad at all. Nice job. Certainly makes for a functional crossbar now. When I saw your post, I was hoping that you were talking about the plastic/metal side supports. I'd love to replace those with something a bit more durable. I have very little faith in plastic & cringe most of the time when I'm hauling around kayaks.

looks fine, about how much did that set you back?

what model and yr do you have? my path came with sliding cross-members and i though they were standard

That looks like a good setup. I think the LE models come with the cross bars standard, but was an option on all the others. Don't know what you are doing with a bungie cord holding the ladder on there, but it doesn't look safe at all. Hope it was just for demo purposes.

Doesn't look bad at all. What are you screwing into inside the aluminum?

A parts list would be great.

The only thing I will say is that the OEM solution is more aerodynamic, other than that I am totally willing to give your solution a spin....