- Location
- Las Vegas, NV
No... I'm not trying to sell mine. Hell, I just got it. I wanted to let the guys who built know what I think of their product.
It's really really good. Well designed and very very well made. I had to argue with the guy who powder coated mine to make it purple. He wanted to just clear coat it, saying that the welding is the best he's ever seen and it would be a crime to hide it. I think it looks pretty good in purple.
What I really like about it is the mounting system. It doesn't clamp on to the rain gutter. Those of you who have had a close encounter of the tree kind, know that rain gutter clamps are pretty useless when your roof rack starts acting like a rock rail. And regarding the racks that mount to the plastic factory roof rack rails, I have seen a couple of occasions of roof racks that caused the plastic rails to fail. I never thought that either method was particularly good.
The Rigwerks rack mounts directly to the nutserts in the roof. You remove the factory rails and replace them with custom metal rails that the rack mounts upon. Really slick system.
Really strong too. I'd wager you could probably use the roof rack as a winch point to right a rolled vehicle. (Not that I'd ever want to find out!!!) During the Stoddard Valley Cleanup, I piled two feet of sheet metal and rusty 55 gallon drums up there along with my spare tire! The guy with the Unimog dump truck took a pic of me unloading.
I know this is sounding like a commercial, but when one of our very own, designs a product this good, they deserve the recognition.
Mssrs Ron Johnson and Ryan Brown... Well done!
It's really really good. Well designed and very very well made. I had to argue with the guy who powder coated mine to make it purple. He wanted to just clear coat it, saying that the welding is the best he's ever seen and it would be a crime to hide it. I think it looks pretty good in purple.
What I really like about it is the mounting system. It doesn't clamp on to the rain gutter. Those of you who have had a close encounter of the tree kind, know that rain gutter clamps are pretty useless when your roof rack starts acting like a rock rail. And regarding the racks that mount to the plastic factory roof rack rails, I have seen a couple of occasions of roof racks that caused the plastic rails to fail. I never thought that either method was particularly good.
The Rigwerks rack mounts directly to the nutserts in the roof. You remove the factory rails and replace them with custom metal rails that the rack mounts upon. Really slick system.
Really strong too. I'd wager you could probably use the roof rack as a winch point to right a rolled vehicle. (Not that I'd ever want to find out!!!) During the Stoddard Valley Cleanup, I piled two feet of sheet metal and rusty 55 gallon drums up there along with my spare tire! The guy with the Unimog dump truck took a pic of me unloading.
I know this is sounding like a commercial, but when one of our very own, designs a product this good, they deserve the recognition.
Mssrs Ron Johnson and Ryan Brown... Well done!
