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I know you also have a roof cargo box, can you pull into your garage with the cargo box mounted with your lifted PP?
The lift kit I'm wanting will make it too tall to pull in my garage with my cargo box. I have my cargo box stored on my garage ceiling, which makes it a single person job to mount and unmount.
Curious how you manage your cargo box?
The lift kit I'm wanting will make it too tall to pull in my garage with my cargo box. I have my cargo box stored on my garage ceiling, which makes it a single person job to mount and unmount.
Curious how you manage your cargo box?
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Greetings…
I can only go in and out with the Yakima off grid roof basket, but not with the Thule cargo box unfortunately.
My cargo box is 16” high per the official specs.
I found this out the hard way actually… the first time mounting it I pulled into the garage, put my cargo box on top, and then realized I wasn’t backing out without causing catastrophic damage, so I took it off, backed out, then put it on again.
When not in use…
I mount the cargo box vertically against the wall of my garage, hooked onto a horizontally mounted pole. To mount it, I grab it off the wall (so the top of the cargo box is facing toward me), walk it over to the Passport, set it down on it’s back still standing up, with the bottom facing toward the front of the car.
Then the hard part, I stand on the other side of the cargo box facing the bottom, I grab it like a big bear, lift it up over my head, step right toward the car and hook the first set of hooks onto the crossbars.
Then I slide the box over on the rails and hook the second set of hooks onto the crossbar.
It takes some gymnastics, and if it were any heavier or I were any shorter (5’7”) I couldn’t do it myself without help.
If my garage was taller I’d definitely do the overhead ceiling mount and just drop it on as you suggest, but alas, my garage was built by leprechauns.
I can only go in and out with the Yakima off grid roof basket, but not with the Thule cargo box unfortunately.
My cargo box is 16” high per the official specs.
I found this out the hard way actually… the first time mounting it I pulled into the garage, put my cargo box on top, and then realized I wasn’t backing out without causing catastrophic damage, so I took it off, backed out, then put it on again.
When not in use…
I mount the cargo box vertically against the wall of my garage, hooked onto a horizontally mounted pole. To mount it, I grab it off the wall (so the top of the cargo box is facing toward me), walk it over to the Passport, set it down on it’s back still standing up, with the bottom facing toward the front of the car.
Then the hard part, I stand on the other side of the cargo box facing the bottom, I grab it like a big bear, lift it up over my head, step right toward the car and hook the first set of hooks onto the crossbars.
Then I slide the box over on the rails and hook the second set of hooks onto the crossbar.
It takes some gymnastics, and if it were any heavier or I were any shorter (5’7”) I couldn’t do it myself without help.
If my garage was taller I’d definitely do the overhead ceiling mount and just drop it on as you suggest, but alas, my garage was built by leprechauns.
Thank you for the feedback! At my last house I stored it in my shed vertically just like you do. I had to grab it like a bear as well 😂 and do a military press shoulder work out to get it up on the roof.
I really want a lift, so I'll just have to manually load my cargo box. 🤙
I really want a lift, so I'll just have to manually load my cargo box. 🤙
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