Ah, thanks for the clarification. Any idea when youll have a sale on racks like the Halloween one?
thanks

Looking for T-slot antenna mount options. I found this one:

Bed Rail CB Mount

Anyone aware of others?

Been lusting over the gear on your site and te budget is growing in your direction! I have a question about your 3rd gen baseplate. When it says, "the carpet must be removed" Are you referring to the "semi-glued down carpet with the insulation touching the frame" carpet or easily removable carpet pieces that came with my 99 Limited? And if I chose longer bolts for the connection points (allowing for the stock carpet), is there an issue that you have discovered? Thanks for your time.

Appreciate it, man!

The 3rd gen requires removal of the carpet mat but not the actual carpet. I think you may have misread on the website or may have been looking at the 4th gen which does require removing the actual carpet.

Hopefully, this clears everything up.

Sweet! Thank you.

Bob

Damn I missed both sales . I'm ready to pull the trigger on a rack for my
3rd gen . How long is the wait time for a powder coated full length unit with the
light bar ?
Any discounts available for T4R members ?

Max

Sorry we missed your reply here on our thread. Right now we are sitting at about a 4-5 week lead time on powder coated orders.

We do have a discount code for forum members. Use "T4RORG" at checkout for 5% off of your order.

Installed my Sunflare solar panel on your rack. Mother Nature is feeding my truck with power when the sun is out on the PNW. My MPPT controller is a REDARC BCDC1225.









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debating on dropping the dough today on an MKII for my runner. Anything to consider? Any other main competitors? I've shopped around and I honestly believe this is the highest quality american made rack available for the 3rd gen. I automatically ruled out any other rack that involves cutting or installing anything additional onto the runner. I like that this is a no nonsense install. I've seen negative posts on this thread but honestly it seemed like the customer was at fault in all honesty. Since the MKII release I haven't seen any bad feedback. Any feedback is welcomed.

Curb alert! Matterhorn is going to the scrapper this week. Looking forward to installing a Prinsu rack. It gets here Tuesday. I tried the Matterhorn; but the "first gen" was not overbuilt like advertised. I doubt I will get a couple bucks for the side pieces at scrap value. The cross bars will be held onto for some other project. An expensive reminder of the lesson learned.

Word of advice - the rack strength is in how they attach to the roof off your vehicle. Check it out. Which racks reuse the +20 year old stock mounting system (which is flimsy enough you can twist it in your hand) or use properly bent mount points? And uses all five mounting bolts to directly connect to the rack?

Sorry to hear you are unpleased with our rack system. Reusing the stock roof track is actually quite smart... Push on your roof with your hand where your track isn't and you'll see why. A roof rack the holds hundreds of pounds shouldn't be attached by a few points into thin sheet metal with rivnuts. The OE rooftrack is the only thing adding any rigidity to the stock roof and even with that it still is able to flex under heavy point loads. The only way to combat this is to pull the headliner and reinforce it from underneath. There are lots of threads on this subject on here if you feel the need to do so. I personally carry close to 250 pounds on my roof on most trips and I drive the hell out of my truck and have no issues and I have not reinforced my roof.

I'll show you a picture showing why we reuse the stock roof track and some people even go the extra mile to upgrade their old ones with a Thule or Yakima track systems if theirs is damaged.

Though it is not the best picture, it is all I could find. You can clearly see the foot on this unnamed rack deforming the sheet metal right after install.



There is a method behind our madness and with over 20 years of combined experience working on 3rd gen 4runners and 4 working on racks specifically for them, this is the method we have settled on.

Thanks for bringing this subject to light, hopefully, this clears up our thinking on the ssubject and answers any questions for anyone else reading this.

Wash your hands and stay healthy everyone!

Awesome setup man! Solar is something we are all pretty interested in but have not had the time to dive into it yet.

No worries; I've handled the other "not named" roof rack and was unable to twist/bend/mess with it like the sides of the Matterhorn rack I used to have on my 4Runner. If I can get a few days of sunshine I will touch up my roof from where the pads from the rack slipped off (while you were working out the glue issue) and beat the paint off my roof. Sure - blame it on end user install errors again.

Either way - glad the rack is off my rig and will not recommend it to anyone I talk to. And 20 years combined experience is not something I would brag about. You could add another person and all of a sudden you could brag you have 25 years! LOL

Good luck on your future endeavors.

The MKII was released because we saw where improvements could be made. We switched to a stronger aluminum (6061), completely redesigned the mounts (front and rear), and added even more crossbars to further strengthen the rack. In nearly every way, the MKII has been vastly improved over the MKI. To anyone else reading, the rack pictured above is one of our earliest racks shipped out. Having shipped out 1000+ racks since, we've improved quite a bit.