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Rhino Rack Roof Basket Review - 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan, we're going to be test fitting the Rhino Rack Roof Mounted Steel Cargo Basket, part number RMCB. The Rhino Rack Rooftop Cargo Basket is great for solving a lot of problems with your Dodge Grand Caravan such as not enough space or you need to make more space by putting your luggage, your sporting goods, or your camping gear up on your roof.The overall dimensions for for this roof basket are going to be 47 3/16 inches long by 35 3/8 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches deep. Some other cargo baskets kind of have a curve shape to it to help with aerodynamics. This one has a constant wall all the way around it to help tie down your gear. This also has a carrying capacity of 165 pounds, but you should always check your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights and go by its recommendation.This cargo basket, it does come with the fairing pre-installed, and that's going to help cut down some of that noise while you drive. There are plenty of spaces and bars on the cargo basket itself to utilize these tie down points for your gear.



Rhino Rack Roof Cargo Carrier Review - 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan we're going to be Rhino-Rack pioneer platform universal mount cargo basket, part number RR42115BF. The Rhino-Rack pioneer platform is great for solving the problem of not enough space in your vehicle or you wanna make more space inside your vehicle by letting up your luggage, your sporting goods equipment, or your camping gear. This cargo carrier is nice and flat with plenty of tie-down portions and plenty of space to load your gear as well. There's a wide variety of features that you can utilize and put on the T-track systems up on the top, anything from eyelet tie-downs to shovel holders as well. You can find these all on etrailer.com.As far as the carrying capacity is concerned, what they recommend is you go by the manufacturer's weight recommendations for your roof and load it from there. And as you can see, there's plenty of space between our hatch and the pioneer platform, so that's not gonna be an issue either.Now that we've gone over some of the features of the pioneer platform, let's go ahead and show you how it installs.



Thule Roof Basket Review - 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan

Speaker 1: Today in our 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan, we're going to bet test fitting the Thule Canyon XT roof cargo basket, part number TH859ST. Thule Canyon XT is great for those situations where inside your Grand Caravan you either need more space, don't have enough space, where you can carry your luggage, your gear, your sporting goods, your camping equipment, anything on the roof of your vehicle and frees up a little space inside your vehicle.Now like most things that you can put on your roof, they're gonna get noisy. Now this does help to cut down the noise with the included frame that comes pre installed on our actual roof basket. Right now we have attached aero bars but this will also work with square, round, elliptical and most factory roof racks as well. You can see at the end here there's a plastic lock. That can be replaced with a Thule lock core which is sold separately, so you can secure this to your roof rack system but you can also purchase several of these and make a key to like with your roof rack system as well.It provides several tie down points on the side here as well as below to help keep your gear secure and not moving.



Curt Roof Basket Review - 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan we're going to be test fitting the Curt Roof Mounted Cargo Basket, part number C18115. The Curt Cargo Basket is great for solving those problems such as not enough space inside our Grand Caravan, or we need to make more space in our Grand Caravan by loading up our luggage, sporting goods, or camping gear up on the roof.There's plenty of space for storage with the cargo basket being 41 1/2 inches long by 37 inches wide and by 4 inches tall. That four inches is consistent all the way around the cargo basket unlike some others which can have that kind of curve to it so you lose a little bit towards the rear. This can carry up to 150 pounds of cargo, although you always want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights and go by its recommendation. Also, traveling with these cargo baskets or pretty much anything on your roof, you're going to encounter a lot of noise while you drive. But the Curt basket here does come included with this fairing up at the front which is going to help quiet down some of that while you drive.Looking how we secured this to our roof basket, there are plenty of spots both along the side and beneath to tie down your gear.