The Nissan Path

Spent a couple of days cobbling this together...



Not come out to bad at all. Sits level with the roof bars, no additional wind noise that I can notice anyhow, and no need to worry about carpark clearance. At least while its empty.

Outstanding! Very nicely done.

just my personal opinion, but i can safely say this is the best looking roofrack i have ever seen for a pathfinder. whats the load rating roughly?

Thanks guys

I'd probably not push it more than 75kg.. it may be up to more. It uses all the bolt holes on the rails.. so I guess it'll be up to what every the rails can officially cope with.

I've been prompted to build it as during our 2 week vacation we will be taking the dogs this year, so I have a large create filling the back of the pathfinder. So the rack will end up populated by bodyboards, camp chairs and windbreaks etc for the beach.

The ladder seactions are 20mm by 20mm box,
The tie down tubes front and rear are 2omm dia
and the sides are angled steel 30mm each leg, which came with slots already cut into it for bolting, so I only have to drill two holes each side and make a couple of slots wider as the rails curve.. I wanted to keep the bed flat rather than bowed.
The bed its self was some old galv mesh and was just the right size 148cm long and around 87cm wide. The gap between the rails was around 90.5 cm give or take around 0.3cm as the roof contored.

I welded the front and rear section then offered up the frame on some old seat cushions to protect the roof, then clamped in the centre cross section to make sure I got as close to the rails as I could.

The rest is time and paint

I also bought some plastic ends for the box tube.. to stop internal rot and also stop any howling from wind noise.. seems to have worked.

I've ordered a set of security screws to hopefully stop it doing a disappearing act.

mar1 wrote:just my personal opinion, but i can safely say this is the best looking roofrack i have ever seen for a pathfinder. whats the load rating roughly?

I'm with Mar1. That's one sweet roof rack. Nicely done!

I like it. Low profile but still very capable. How much did it cost in parts?

190 USD or 125 ukp, but I had the galv mesh already which had been in the garden behind the shed gathering dust.

goblue90 wrote:

mar1 wrote:just my personal opinion, but i can safely say this is the best looking roofrack i have ever seen for a pathfinder. whats the load rating roughly?

I'm with Mar1. That's one sweet roof rack. Nicely done!

Indeed... That looks fantastic!

Very nice! I wish I had the time right now to mess around and take on a project like this! Well done!

Wow! Great work. I love it!

This is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Unfortunately if I made one it would end up like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.

Love it, nicely done. Looks like its from the factory or better.

so cool !!!

Going to start my own roof rack, thank you for sharing.

Regards,

Pedro

Oh wow, that looks outstanding. Well done.

I'd love to try & build something like that myself... maybe make it look a little beefier though & make it able to withstand a person or two.

WOW, that is one great looking roof rack. Would be great to see some more detail pictures of the build and mounting of that roof rack. I want to make one for my 2012 PF.