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Just venting.
When I bought my truck 5 years ago, I got a paint matched Leer camper shell with it. The shell has rails on the roof for a cargo rack, but I never used them.
Me and the wife have a 4000 mile round trip, road trip coming up in June, and already own a Thule cargo box that we use on her Durango.
I just installed a set of Thule feet and Aeroblade roof bars ony camper shell, so we could use the cargo box on that trip.
I was pretty happy with the install, it actually looks great on the truck.
Except,
Birds absolutely love those bars. I bet they can recognize those bars as a primo landing site from 10,000 feet.
Every single day after work, I gotta drop by the car wash. Every single day, without exception. Giant gobs of ****!
It looks like a whole clan of bald eagles landed, and took turns ******** off the ends of the bars, down the sides of the camper shell.
Since I'm at work, miles away from the building, I have no idea what kind of birds it is, but when I get back to at the end of the day!! They gotta be big. Not a sparrow. The **** itself is bigger than a sparrow. Looks like kids dropped ice cream cones and it melt down the sides of the truck.
The **** spots, each directly under the 4 load bar ends on each side, look like someone poured white paint out of a pail. I'm afraid to even look up on top of the shell.
So, the roof rack is in the bed of the truck now. 400$ worth of parts that I can't leave on my truck when not in-use.
If only my employer would pay me to sit in the parking lot with a pellet gun and cooler of beer!
When I bought my truck 5 years ago, I got a paint matched Leer camper shell with it. The shell has rails on the roof for a cargo rack, but I never used them.
Me and the wife have a 4000 mile round trip, road trip coming up in June, and already own a Thule cargo box that we use on her Durango.
I just installed a set of Thule feet and Aeroblade roof bars ony camper shell, so we could use the cargo box on that trip.
I was pretty happy with the install, it actually looks great on the truck.
Except,
Birds absolutely love those bars. I bet they can recognize those bars as a primo landing site from 10,000 feet.
Every single day after work, I gotta drop by the car wash. Every single day, without exception. Giant gobs of ****!
It looks like a whole clan of bald eagles landed, and took turns ******** off the ends of the bars, down the sides of the camper shell.
Since I'm at work, miles away from the building, I have no idea what kind of birds it is, but when I get back to at the end of the day!! They gotta be big. Not a sparrow. The **** itself is bigger than a sparrow. Looks like kids dropped ice cream cones and it melt down the sides of the truck.
The **** spots, each directly under the 4 load bar ends on each side, look like someone poured white paint out of a pail. I'm afraid to even look up on top of the shell.
So, the roof rack is in the bed of the truck now. 400$ worth of parts that I can't leave on my truck when not in-use.
If only my employer would pay me to sit in the parking lot with a pellet gun and cooler of beer!