nick_rabbo
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Hey Forum,
Decided to post this thread in case anyone down the line was curious about this particular roof rack. I have an 05 Sport V8 and it was time to change out the stock silver colored rails for a proper rack.
What were my options: Base prices plus shipping/tax.
1) LFD - $800.19
2) Gobi - $1,595
3) Prinsu - $1,129.25
4) Victory - $809.10
Here is why I PERSONALLY went with Victory for my application. Everyone makes a great product/rack but it all depends on everyone's application, budget, and personal style.
1) For the LFD, I was actually going to go with this initially. The price is the best out of the group and they have specials from time to time. In Texas I wouldn't get charged tax and the shipping isn't bad at $55. But ultimately I decided to go with something else because I wanted something bigger. The LFD seems to be a little shorter in length when looking at the rack from the rear to the front doors and it seems to be thinner in width than other racks. I think it's because their brackets seem to be offset inwards from the roof lines of the 4th gen so it makes the rack thinner in width. At least that's my conclusion, I could be wrong. Also, I believe they only come in steel for the 4th gen with maybe the option to get aluminum crossbars. But only the crossbars, the rest is steel. Which may be good for some. For me, I wanted as light as possible. I think the total weight is around 80lbs.
2) I know so many people that are very happy with Gobi racks, and they look really cool. But for ME, I couldn't justify paying that much for a rack. I would rather take the extra money and apply it to other stuff for my build (fridge, tent, etc). Also, these racks seem to be the largest in height. And I wasn't sure how bad that would translate to noise or MPG decline. These are also steel, cited as 80lbs in their spec sheet.
3) Based off looks, I really liked the Prinsu. They are all aluminum so saves on weight, although their site says its 75lbs. Not sure if that's an error but 5lbs less for aluminum compared to steel doesn't really make sense. The rack itself is $899 but they charge extra for the light bar cutouts and the fairing noise reducing trim. So total comes to $934.99 before shipping and tax. The thing that really turned me off was paying $194.26 for shipping. Call me cheap but if another company is offering free shipping, I'd rather take advantage of that obviously. Lastly, from my understanding this whole rack including the brackets are aluminum. More on that in next paragraph.
4) That brought me to Victory. The design is very similar to Prinsu in appearance. I liked all the products Victory is pumping out for the 4th gens, there's a thread on here for that. From time to time, they have deals so I tried taking advantage of one for the July 4th 15% off promo, but I just missed that. Regardless, they were nice enough to offer me 10% still off my order. So $899.00 went down to $809.10 Plus, shipping was free and no tax so that's awesome. The weight is 49 lbs which makes a lot more sense since this is an aluminum rack, lowest weight of the bunch. But one of the main reasons I chose this over the similar Prinsu besides the price was because Victory's brackets are steel whereas the Prinsu brackets are aluminum. At least that's what I understood from my research, I think I may have called Prinsu directly to ask. I wanted more strength in the brackets for rigidity purposes and more aluminum in the rack for weight purposes. For disclaimer purposes, I did pay an extra $45 for black nuts and bolts so it brought my total to $849.60 ($899+$45 = $944-10%). I did think that was a pretty ridiculous price for the black nuts and bolts, especially considering that they still send you the regular stainless steel hardware as well, which was very confusing during assembly.
I ordered the rack on July 23rd and it shipped out August 15th which was quick. I remember people in the past would wait 3 months for their Gobis, not sure if that's still the case, hopefully not. The rack came well packaged and everything looked very quality and all the cuts were nice.
I will say this, VICTORY IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU REALLY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR INSTALL GUIDES. Message me and I will be happy to give you feedback. What should have taken me 2 hours ended up taking 2 days. And I've rebuilt motors in the past, so I'd like to think I'm pretty mechanically inclined. I called them for troubleshooting and spoke to a guy named Chris. He was very nice and even allowed me to text and send him pictures after business hours to try and get me taken care of. Very good customer service.
Here's the stock rails and their removal:
After driving to Target, I realized I forgot my trim removal tool on the roof. Thankfully it didn't go anywhere [emoji16]
And this is how it looks mounted up:
All in all, I'm pretty happy. I wanted a low profile rack for decreased wind resistance. A light rack because who wants extra weight. And one that was reasonably priced. As of now, I have noticed no difference in noise which is amazing. I hope that doesn't change. If it does, I'll update the thread. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask, thank you for reading.
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Decided to post this thread in case anyone down the line was curious about this particular roof rack. I have an 05 Sport V8 and it was time to change out the stock silver colored rails for a proper rack.
What were my options: Base prices plus shipping/tax.
1) LFD - $800.19
2) Gobi - $1,595
3) Prinsu - $1,129.25
4) Victory - $809.10
Here is why I PERSONALLY went with Victory for my application. Everyone makes a great product/rack but it all depends on everyone's application, budget, and personal style.
1) For the LFD, I was actually going to go with this initially. The price is the best out of the group and they have specials from time to time. In Texas I wouldn't get charged tax and the shipping isn't bad at $55. But ultimately I decided to go with something else because I wanted something bigger. The LFD seems to be a little shorter in length when looking at the rack from the rear to the front doors and it seems to be thinner in width than other racks. I think it's because their brackets seem to be offset inwards from the roof lines of the 4th gen so it makes the rack thinner in width. At least that's my conclusion, I could be wrong. Also, I believe they only come in steel for the 4th gen with maybe the option to get aluminum crossbars. But only the crossbars, the rest is steel. Which may be good for some. For me, I wanted as light as possible. I think the total weight is around 80lbs.
2) I know so many people that are very happy with Gobi racks, and they look really cool. But for ME, I couldn't justify paying that much for a rack. I would rather take the extra money and apply it to other stuff for my build (fridge, tent, etc). Also, these racks seem to be the largest in height. And I wasn't sure how bad that would translate to noise or MPG decline. These are also steel, cited as 80lbs in their spec sheet.
3) Based off looks, I really liked the Prinsu. They are all aluminum so saves on weight, although their site says its 75lbs. Not sure if that's an error but 5lbs less for aluminum compared to steel doesn't really make sense. The rack itself is $899 but they charge extra for the light bar cutouts and the fairing noise reducing trim. So total comes to $934.99 before shipping and tax. The thing that really turned me off was paying $194.26 for shipping. Call me cheap but if another company is offering free shipping, I'd rather take advantage of that obviously. Lastly, from my understanding this whole rack including the brackets are aluminum. More on that in next paragraph.
4) That brought me to Victory. The design is very similar to Prinsu in appearance. I liked all the products Victory is pumping out for the 4th gens, there's a thread on here for that. From time to time, they have deals so I tried taking advantage of one for the July 4th 15% off promo, but I just missed that. Regardless, they were nice enough to offer me 10% still off my order. So $899.00 went down to $809.10 Plus, shipping was free and no tax so that's awesome. The weight is 49 lbs which makes a lot more sense since this is an aluminum rack, lowest weight of the bunch. But one of the main reasons I chose this over the similar Prinsu besides the price was because Victory's brackets are steel whereas the Prinsu brackets are aluminum. At least that's what I understood from my research, I think I may have called Prinsu directly to ask. I wanted more strength in the brackets for rigidity purposes and more aluminum in the rack for weight purposes. For disclaimer purposes, I did pay an extra $45 for black nuts and bolts so it brought my total to $849.60 ($899+$45 = $944-10%). I did think that was a pretty ridiculous price for the black nuts and bolts, especially considering that they still send you the regular stainless steel hardware as well, which was very confusing during assembly.
I ordered the rack on July 23rd and it shipped out August 15th which was quick. I remember people in the past would wait 3 months for their Gobis, not sure if that's still the case, hopefully not. The rack came well packaged and everything looked very quality and all the cuts were nice.
I will say this, VICTORY IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU REALLY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR INSTALL GUIDES. Message me and I will be happy to give you feedback. What should have taken me 2 hours ended up taking 2 days. And I've rebuilt motors in the past, so I'd like to think I'm pretty mechanically inclined. I called them for troubleshooting and spoke to a guy named Chris. He was very nice and even allowed me to text and send him pictures after business hours to try and get me taken care of. Very good customer service.
Here's the stock rails and their removal:
After driving to Target, I realized I forgot my trim removal tool on the roof. Thankfully it didn't go anywhere [emoji16]
And this is how it looks mounted up:
All in all, I'm pretty happy. I wanted a low profile rack for decreased wind resistance. A light rack because who wants extra weight. And one that was reasonably priced. As of now, I have noticed no difference in noise which is amazing. I hope that doesn't change. If it does, I'll update the thread. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask, thank you for reading.
Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk
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