Honda Element Roof Racks
I found a great post about roof racks for the Honda Element over at tyborg.com (gee Mac user and Element owner - time to subscribe to his feed). Note: Unfortunately now a defunct site so I’ve linked to the Internet Archive.
I’ve been thinking about getting a roof rack for my Element for a while now, especially since I’m making significant progress on my kayak and should wrap up the frame by this weekend. I was leaning towards the standard Honda model until I checked the prices at handa-accessories.com a few weeks back and realized it was going to cost me over $206+shipping ($226+shipping as of June 2008). As it turns out that’s not much less than you can get a more flexible, higher capacity Yakima or Thule rack that could be easily moved to other cars down the road.
Based on a little further research I just did the Yakima package looks like the way I’ll go eventually. Rackwarehouse.com currently has the Yakima components I want (66 in. bars, faring, pads and towers) for $228 and free ground shipping. At this point that looks like a far better value.
Update: eBay is another good source of Honda Element roof rack deals. Here are some current offerings:
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Perrycraft ROOF RACK honda ELEMENT 03-06 05 04 2003 SUV US $154.96 End Date: Friday Oct-10-2008 8:29:20 PDT Buy it now | Add to watch list |
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03 04 05 06 07 08 GENUINE HONDA ELEMENT ROOF RACK NEW US $214.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Oct-12-2008 9:52:03 PDT Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list |
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03 04 05 06 07 08 HONDA ELEMENT NEW ROOF RACK ROOFRACK US $211.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Oct-16-2008 8:51:20 PDT Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list |
[...] As an experiment I decided to try digging a post I did last month on Honda Element Roof Racks. The post is probably kind of a stretch even for Digg’s deals sections, but I wanted to go through the link submission process and see how it worked and this seemed like a reasonable post for those purposes. The link submission process worked quite smoothly, but at the end of the process digg’s duplicate submission detector flagged it as being similar to three other submissions that contained the word Honda, but were otherwise completely different. I had the option at that point to submit anyway so I went ahead and did that. [...]