Hi all,

I have a Freelander 2, 2008 with a panoramic sunroof. My family and I are off to France on holiday for a week and, due to a recent addition to the family, need the additional space that a roof box would give.

I don't have roof rails and, to be honest, it is likely that we'll do this trip and won't need this facility for another year (at least) so I am reluctant to spend £300+ on roof rails plus the bars...

I am therefore looking at getting the Thule RapidFit 754 plus the 1443 fitting kit which are designed for the Freelander 2, however, I am struggling to get an answer on whether this is a problem with the panoramic sunroof as rumours are that it might be. My local landrover dealer is pushing me down the lines of the roof rails and can't recommend anything else - which is helpful (not) but not unexpected from a MD and the couple of thule dealers that I have spoken to can't tell me either

Any users have done this or got the right answer from Thule/Land Rover?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

LR can't recommend anything else that what they sell, after all they want you to buy theirs, but if they did say you could then they could be liable

I have had thule roof rails on my old FL2 without issue and that had a sunroof, the feet stand on metal roof on the glass, but then i only carried a pair of ladders and some snowboards on mine Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Got a set of Thule roof bars and feet, used them on both my Freelander 2's with sunroof without problems. Feet wrap around the door frame and don't touch the glass. Have used them with both a roof box and ski rack.
Got mine from www.roofbox.co.uk but there are other equally good suppliers.

Thanks guys - good to hear. Didn't expect LR to say anything different but thought I'd try

A couple of Thule dealers have come back to me and confirmed that the rapid fix can go on a panoramic FL2 so I think that's good enough for me

My additional nervousness stems from the fact that last year the sunroof exploded on the FL2 on the way home from south of France. Not nice for my little one or my (then) pregnant wife. Cost a fortune to replace as LR wanted nothing to do with it... Didn't want to go through that again due to the roofbars..