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Originally Posted by Phade
I have the Victory rack waiting or go on. With all of the people running racks how come there aren’t more posts of this kind of corrosion taking place?
I’ve seen the one or two mentioned but not outside of that.
Really want to avoid leaking and rust living in the salt belt.
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I've been thinking the same thing also.
The only explanations I can surmise are:
1) Resale. If you pull your rack and notice corrosion, it might affect the person's ability to sell his rack (undesirable product) so people just kinda stay quiet about it and chalk it up to a learning lesson. Could also relate to resale of their own vehicle.
2) They simply don't know. They can throw the roof rack on top and leave it there until the cows come home and never check it. These people will either never know or won't know until it's too late.
If there's a leak, there's no guarantee that you'll ever notice it. Someone mentioned here that water started leaking down their seat belt. IMO, that's the best possible scenario because there's a big ol **** you telling you something is wrong. Otherwise, if you get a slow drip, it'll be enough to constantly keep the metal wet and slowly rust but never enough to tell you something is wrong. Those cylindrical spacers that companies use as a mount are brutal IMO -if you gunk up enough silicone at the bottom, you could seal that seam nicely but then that turns the cylinders into cups that hold water. The only way the cup empties is if it evaporates or completely drips into your vehicle.
The victory rack bracket is great in that if you put butyl rubber down and then a silicone washer down, the bracket squishes the washer down with even force.
If you have a prinsu, it would unevenly apply pressure to the silicone washer -the solution to this is to add an aluminum washer on top of the silicone washer to help distribute the pressure from the cylindrical spacer. I didn't and the spacer cut right through the washers because of the pressure -where the washer didn't cut, it squirted out as if you tried to squeeze a wet bar of soap as hard as you could with your hands.