Check your ski racks!

steezbox

steezbox

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A few hours ago I was driving from Montreal to Tremblant with my family. 20 minutes in, I hear a loud noise from the roof, and everyone starts yelling at me to pull over. Turns out the ski rack popped open and all the skis flew off into the busy highway. No idea how, but nobody else got hit. All the skis got pretty messed up, but are probably repairable. The point here is that the situation could have turned out much worse. I'm not really bummed out because nobody here got hurt. I checked the rack before we left too, but I guess cold weather does that. So, always make sure that everything is in place to avoid a situation like that. Dangerous stuff.
 
my worst fear ....

this is why i always put extra tie-downs over and around my skibox ....
 
Yeah man, they were locked. That is what i don't understand. And we didn't leave without checking that they were locked in place too.
 
man it's the worst feeling.

a few of us were coming down vail pass a few years ago and the ski rack opened up...my friend's skis flew off, landed in the road, and were run over by an 18 wheeler a few seconds later. No joke. Skis were actually ok pretty much but the bindings were totally destroyed.
 
Literally same thing happened to mine. 18 wheeler ran right over. The binding, with the screws, was sheared out of the ski. I'm getting new ones installed right now. Not sure if my skis will last the season though.
 
Ask [creative] about what happened to his skis when they fell off his ski rack while he was driving, great but really shitty story.
 
well theyre behind my seat. so in the event of a crash i would assume they would just hit the back of my seat. its pretty thick. skis arnt going through
 
depending on the company,actually regardless of company, the skis should be replaced if the rack was indeed in the locked position.
 
this always scares the shit out of me. i always make my friends put their hands out the sunroof and have them check it at least once when we go up.
 
This. And this is the second thread I've seen tonight about losing skis off your roof. I'm never ever gonna drive behind someone with skis on their roo
 
haha

my dad locks ours with these bike locks, works like a charm

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A ski box actually completely tore up on the highway after driving about 5000 km to go from quebec to whistler. Surprisingly, nothing was broken (except the box itself) but it was the worse feeling. Especially since at first we thought it was the surfboards that had lift off.
 
Literally just happened to my friend like 2 days ago then called me and asked me of he could use my skis.
 
When I hadn't van and ski box it happened more then once where my box popped open, thankfully it was empty and summerevery time. It was a really wide box and the nose clip clip fell off and when I'd go over 130km/h it would make horrible noises and lift open. My solution was to add a tie down around the box
 
Dub posy but my new biggest far is driving down the road with bike(s) qnd kayak on the roof when my thule feet are only held onto my roof with one tiny screw from the weather strip per foot. So 4 tiny screws holding several thousand dollars in gear, poor design in my mind
 
Never had it happen, either to my thule box, or my thule rack.

...hell, even my old barrecrafters poptop never came loose...
 
yeah, a box seems safer, but still if it opens... Could be worse. I carry more stuff in the box usually too.

Anyways, I ended up replacing the bindings, but they have to be mounted a bit farther back due to the damage. My dad had to get new skis too. Ended up at about $900, but it could have been worse. At least I still get to go skiing tomorrow.
 
a friend once left his rack completely open, and the skis flew off. He didn't notice and they were never recovered. thats the only story i have on this subject.
 
Last year the Aussie world cup tech got in a car accident and 8 aprs of skis came through the front of the box onto the road and were destroyed.
 
Hey man,

If you did lock them than contact the company who makes them for an insurance claim. The same thing happened to me (locked rack and skis went flying), I sent them an email and they had me ship the rack back to them. They determined it was defective and sent me a new rack + a check to replace my skis/bindings. Worth a shot, send pictures of your skis to.
 
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