One thing I know I'll miss from the van is the load space. The van swallowed everything but the Freelander is a lot smaller and I don't really want to throw stinky rubbish in it.
Almost as soon as I bought it I needed to take an old table and chairs and a mattress to the tip (sorry, "Recycling centre") and the lack of space was immediately apparent.
I set about the table and chairs with screwdriver and spanners (and later hammer...) and shrunk them to fit inside the back, but no way with the mattress so that had to go on the roof.
Luckily it came with the load bars but with no cross bars the mattress had to lay on the roof. Not an issue for this but for future needs I set about getting a proper roof rack.
In my shed I already had a set of Thule feet (757) from when I was going to fit a set of Jeep rails to my van, a quick Google and these were confirmed as suitable for Freelanders too. Just needed to get the bars, so onto eBay and a pair of used Aero Bars (860) were soon making their way to me.
Combined and fitted to the rails - they are just right, not too much overhang and they felt pretty solid during the fitting test.
Now I just need some proper strops, and maybe a small roof box for trips away...
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