Our Thule Doubletrack bike rack was delivered yesterday. The box was huge and pretty heavy. It did contain the rack and all the accessories that I ordered inside.
Putting it together involved 6 nuts and bolts and the whole process didn’t take more then 15 minutes. The final construction is very sturdy for the most part.
At this point I haven’t been able to fit it onto the car, but I’m starting to wonder whether this construction will fit into the trunk if the need arises. The central pole with hooks does go down, but it still is big.
The locking anti-rattle bottle is great. It solves both of the worries that I had about an L-shaped adapter for our hitch. It actually does remove all the rattle by replacing a simple pin with a massive nut and bolt, which also has a lock fitted onto it.
The only complain that I have so far is that the hook mounts on the central pole could be more sturdy. The plastic mounts do not seem like they can take a lot of beating, so hopefully it’s not going to be a weak spot of what seems to be a great setup.
I also replaced the buttons with Thule locks and used a locking bolt to attach the rack to the hitch.
Not all is good about the snow. On Thursday I had to drive to work and naturally the car was buried in hard ice. The just run huge trucks down the strips with massive snow plows and all the snow ends up on the cars. Then everything freezes over through out the night and in the morning you have a fun exercise.
It took me over an hour to get all the ice out of the way. It was frozen solid and luckily I was able to borrow a real sharp metal shovel to get the job done. A regular snow shovel would do nothing.
Совет: попробуй использовать Cruise Control, выставляй на малые обороты (2100-2200 rpms) и включай Cruise Control. Остановился, потом нажимаешь Resume. Экономия возрастает заметно!
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