68" x 26" Steel, slide-out cargo carrier lets you carry gear behind your vehicle. Side walls with tie-down points help keep cargo in place. Includes anti-rattle hitch pin and LED tail lights with 4-way flat connector for night visibility.
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Average Customer Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (10 Customer Reviews)
68" x 26" Steel, slide-out cargo carrier lets you carry gear behind your vehicle. Side walls with tie-down points help keep cargo in place. Includes anti-rattle hitch pin and LED tail lights with 4-way flat connector for night visibility.As others have mentioned, cheap hardware and general poor quality of materials. The giant, confident logos on both sides would suggest otherwise. The sheet metal coating is cracked, the holes are punched out into oval shapes so that you have slack and can assemble the poorly manufactured panels but even with larger holes they require wrestling to get them lined up. In order to add the lights or reflectors (whatever is in the last box) I will have to loosen up all the hardware so as to fight to get those holes to line up because as of right now they are blocked. I'm not getting my hopes up. The instructions have errors in them (e.g., corner bolts inserted from outside with nuts on inside) which leads to issues of having to take things apart and put them together multiple times. When the corner bolts are inserted per the instructions they can't be tightened because they hit each other. The interior is not 66x24. It is 66 x 23.75. I needed it to be 24 so now I have to take all that cheap hardware off, add spacers, and replace it. At least I can replace it with better quality bolts. Spacing the front and back out will obviously open up the corners but they don't really line up now anyway. The holes for attaching to the receiver (yes, there are two for some reason) are drilled at atypical distances (one further forward and one further back than usual) making this incompatible with a folding hitch carrier adapter (so it can fold up when not in use) so that's out of the question. With 47 cheap bolts holding the box together, I wouldn't put anything in this you care to keep. If I bought this locally I would have returned it but taking it apart and trying to ship it back would be a nightmare. For me it will only be used to carry a storage box for camping that holds trash and a portable toilet (stuff we don't want in the van). Waste is the only thing I would trust in this. If you want a poorly designed nightmare, this is what you are searching for. If you want something that is well built from decent materials and that doesn't require a fight, keep looking.
Once assembled this is a fantastic cargo carrier that added an enormous amount of cargo capacity for our annual trips. The slide-out mechanism works really well, even when loaded up, and allows use of the inside cargo compartment. The size is much larger than alternatives, which was a selling point for us, and is what made it possible for our family to fit into a single car. The solid floor kept snow/sleet/debris off our gear and the BossHog accessory cover we purchased kept everything perfectly clean and dry inside (note - I did tape the inside corners/seams with gorilla tape for extra weather proofing). The license plate mount is something that I think needs improvement for 2 reasons: 1. There's no light to illuminate the license plate. I solved this buy purchasing an LED strip made to attach to a license plate, attached by running the plate screws through the LED strip mount. 2. The plate is exposed to road debris – we stopped to fill up on our way back home and I noticed that the plate was dangling by just 1 of the metal arms because something on the road had kicked up and torn the other arm clear off - which also shattered the taillight that the plate attaches to. I am going to made a plate carrier that holds the plate _above_ the taillight out of harms way for our next trip. However, LetsGoAero's phenomenal customer service sent me a new light to replace the broken one. Assembly was not as smooth as shown in the videos, and it's definitely important to follow the written instructions instead of the video - there was a step they did in a different order (in the video that we followed) that made it much more difficult to assemble. Also the floor plans had a twist to them which made lining everything up more difficult as well - we also used a mallet and some wood boards to straighten up the seams where there was a bend from shipping damage (even though the shipping boxes had zero damage :-/ ). All in all, I would recommend this to anyone who needs more space or more protection from the elements than the standard 24x60" mess floor carriers.
Bought to mount behind a new 2021 Entegra Ethos class b RV built on a Ram Promaster window van chassis. Wanted the sliding tray to be able to open the rear doors without unloading. Specs seemed good,, but because of where the door hinges pivot, the furthest point of the sliding tray was just less than inch shy of the door arc preventing them from fully swinging. Added a short hitch extension between the van and the rack and now there'splenty of clearance. That extension does decrease carrying capacity slightly due to the longer fulcrum it causes, but I wasn't planning to carry a lot of weight anyway. Just needed a spot for a cooler, grill, and a couple of beach chairs. Bottom line, this carrier is perfect! And kudos as always to etrailer for great service and fast shipping.
It's been a year and boss hog has done a great job.bought it to go on the back of my camper , holds a lot of wood and gear. the slide is a really great feature. well worth the money.
Purchased for 2018 Coachmen CrossFit on Ford Transit 350HD. Product was shipped fast and in good condition for such a big and heavy box. Missing about 12 of the button head hex bolt assemblies so had to scrounge for hardware. There was absolutely NO extra hardware so don’t lose anything. Turn signal and license plate brackets are a joke and an afterthought. Had to reconfigure these to make work. Slide fork was manufactured crooked and once the box is slid on it was crooked on the van so had to tweak the fork to get the unit to sit level. A lot of hardware and assembly needed to construct this unit. Hardware is cheap quality and hex heads round off very easily under minor tightening. Instructions were lacking in a key area of how the box mounts to the slide arms and how to connect the limiting cable so the box doesn’t slide all the way off the slide fork. I also bought the hoodie cover but had to install rubber tubing on the Box corners so they would not rip through the cover once installed. The cargo net and other straps are nice and seems to work as intended. But once all figured out and installed everything appears to work correctly but it took a good bit of work on my part to make it correct. If you are looking for something to work right out of the box this is not it. But this is a huge box cargo carrier that will swallow a lot of stuff. I will find out today how it works in the real world on my trip.
I chose this carrier for its companion bike rack that includes a cover and cargo net. I wanted these to protect our expensive ebikes when we travel down south. Let me start by saying assembly of the carrier is cumbersome with a multitude of hardware. For the price of the carrier I feel captive PEM hardware should have been used to enhance assembly. The first gotcha was my bike does not fit into the carrier tray. Perhaps that is my fault for not measuring my bike before ordering but my wifes bike just barely fits within the tray. I could take off the front wheel but the bike rack is designed to fasten to the bike wheels so that is not an option. I was able to eventually get my bike mounted with the rear tire sitting upon the side wall. Not ideal but it works. The bike rack mounting brackets are cumbersome and it is difficult to secure the bikes in place. Daily use of this bike rack would be very difficult. Having used a Yakima rack in the past enforces the fact that this rack is not user friendly. Fortunately we will only need to use twice a year. The cover and cargo net seem to be of good quality but we have yet to travel down the road so it remains to see how those will hold up. The cover does not fit well as the one bike does not fully fit into the tray. The tray itself seems to be of good quality but beware it is very heavy and attaching onto the vehicle can be a challenge. All in all if I had to do it over I probably would not purchase the carrier nor the bike rack.
Still haven't assembled it yet but looks great
Just what I needed.
The cargo carrier works great! I use it to carry about 300 pounds, and have not had any trouble. It slides in and out easier than expected.
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