Rola Platypus Expandable Rooftop Bag Review

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Review of the Rola Platypus Expandable Rooftop Bag

Today we are going to show you part number 59100 from Rola. This is the Rola Platypus Expandable Rooftop Bag. I will cover a couple of features of this cargo bag, which is really nice. First off, it is expandable from 10 cubic feet to 15 cubic feet by simply unzipping the zipper on the very bottom of the bag. The construction of this bag is heavy-duty, premium-quality, weatherproof construction, and it comes built in with eight tie-down straps. So you have got four straps on each side, basically two in the front, two in the rear, and two on each side. It also has a built-in aerodynamic shape, as you can see here. It actually matches the roofline of this vehicle quite nicely. Let us go ahead and show you how it gets attached to the roof rack and a few of the features of it.

As you can see here, we have the two tie-down straps on the side, with nice, thick, heavy-duty construction. It has an easy-to-use clip here, so basically you can just wrap it around your cargo bar, clip it back into place, and then just pull up your excess to tighten it down. And it comes with this nice little strap to keep up the excess out of the way. And there are two on each side, two in the front, and two in the rear that work identical to that. And also this bag is expandable, too, as we said before. It starts off as shown here at 10 cubic feet and then when we undo the zipper on the very bottom here, underneath this flap, you will get up to five more cubic feet.

And this lower zipper right here is the expansion part. You can just undo it and you have that much expansion already. And it is all covered by this heavy-duty flap two layers, actually: one on the top and one on the inside and it has these Velcro seals here to keep out the dirt and wind and water. What is really nice about this cargo bag is, if you have some stuff that can sit outside in the weather, you have these tie-down straps right here to store it on top. Plus you have got a couple of little pockets here, too, if you have something that you can leave out in the elements, too. All right, that covers our review of part number 59100 from Rola, the Platypus Expandable Rooftop Bag.

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