Koenbro

I just got today my roof transport system from Sunset Porsche.

What rooftop boxes do you guys recommend? I am looking at a Yakima RocketBox Pro 14 . I am looking more at short and wide boxes, as I'd expect a 911 would look weird with a long (ski-sized) box on top. I prefer a dual- or driver-side opening.

By the way, after I installed the roof transport system (ie. cross bars), I took the car for a drive to check for wind noise. My car has a quite pronounced baseline wind noise from the windshield (wiper blades? cowling?) over 80mph, but the roof transport did not add to it. Needless to say, I was very pleased by that. My car is 2007 997.1 C4S coupe w/Tip btw.

cwalvoord

We have a Yakima box that has been used on several vehicles, although not the 911, and has been fine. Fairly easy to put on and take off and no issues with durability even though it does not seem as "robust" as I might expect. When it was on our Ford Escape it even hit the top of the garage door opening once at very low speed (too tall for the door opening) and it survived just fine.

As for the shape I would think about what you are going to put in the box. Long and narrow is also easier to load, less reaching all the way across the vehicle, and it presents a marginally smaller frontal area so it should impact gas mileage slightly less.

Great to see people using these cars and not just polishing them. I even had a trailer hitch on my 944...
Chris

niner niner seven

The only ones ive seen are Thule. Can u post photos of your roof rack system etc thanks

Koenbro

Here's what it looks like:

niner niner seven

Tops on that wide body. Are u not into any of the thules?

sako

I have the thule 624 on my 2008 997s with the porsche cross bars. Drove 600 miles with no problems. Can get noisy with cross winds but placed it and removed all bymyself in 10-15 minutes. Having problems uploading the photos. I can email photos if youd like, just PM me.

Koenbro

Initially I wanted a wide box, but the point made above about easy reach with the longer/narrow boxes makes sense. Will broaden my search and update once I bought something. Will look into silver boxes (as opposed to black) and hope they will look good.
BTW one of the pics did not upload initially, so I'm posting it here:




The front and back top bars are perfectly level, as the rear support is taller to compensate for the sloping top.

ljschnel

I just looked at some boxes at REI yesterday and there were some black ones with elongated dimples like you'd find on a golf ball. I think one of those would look great for years. The silver painted ones tend to fade and show scratches. 2c's