after calling Mountain mans garage, my dealer all of a sudden managed to find some roof rails himself. How about that?? thanks Mountain man, my FL2 wears a crown right now!

Ordered rails from Nick at Yeoville land rover yesterday he sent me fiiting instructions by email I Fitted my rails this evening took less than 1 hour ,photos in my gallery I know car needs a wash but I thought someone might want to see some pics

Very nice work !  F R E E L A N D E R - I . SW . '99 . XED . Blenheim Silver

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I have my roofrails now... It look fantastic...

And yes, they are compatible with the suntoof...

NightFox wrote:

After a bit of research, I've come up with the following:

The roof rails are part no. LR006608, as previously mentioned. The original batch have now been purchased/accounted for, so there are no more currently available (unless you find a dealer with some). If a dealer trys to order some now, they will show on LR's parts system as "not yet available", rather than "out of stock". Apparently, this is a bit of manipulation by Caterpillar, LR's logistics contractor, as if they list it as "out of stock" it makes them look to LR like they're not managing stock levels very well, whereas if they list it as "not yet available" then it looks like it's not their fault.

Because of this, most dealers won't even know that any have been available yet, unless they happened to check their systems for the short period of time while they were available.

So bottom line, rails have been released, but are now out of stock.

There's also no book information for labour on fitting; my dealer has quoted me 1hr or less. As far as I know, the only dealer with any experience of fitting them to date is Conwy LR in Wales.

And I'm afraid that they are not compatible with the sunroof.

I am also waiting for some rails and have been since January. I saw the Ebay posting so went off to my dealer last week and told him about it. He advised that LR have now come up with 2 part numbers, 1 for sunroof models (which mine is) and the other for non sunroofs. He still could not give a delivery date, which quite frankly is getting a pain in the neck as I want to use them for my summer holiday.

John L wrote:

I am also waiting for some rails and have been since January. I saw the Ebay posting so went off to my dealer last week and told him about it. He advised that LR have now come up with 2 part numbers, 1 for sunroof models (which mine is) and the other for non sunroofs. He still could not give a delivery date, which quite frankly is getting a pain in the neck as I want to use them for my summer holiday.

Just been down the A1 at 70mph for 50 miles and no discernable wind noise over and above the usual. Given that the rails fit on the black plastic roof trims(see photos0 I can't see why they wouldn't fit the sunroof model

They are noisy! at 70 mph no prob, try 100 you will be stunned

I would be more concerned with the noise from the following police car at 100 and the pain of subsequent loss of licence.........

ej wrote:

NightFox wrote:

After a bit of research, I've come up with the following:

The roof rails are part no. LR006608, as previously mentioned. The original batch have now been purchased/accounted for, so there are no more currently available (unless you find a dealer with some). If a dealer trys to order some now, they will show on LR's parts system as "not yet available", rather than "out of stock". Apparently, this is a bit of manipulation by Caterpillar, LR's logistics contractor, as if they list it as "out of stock" it makes them look to LR like they're not managing stock levels very well, whereas if they list it as "not yet available" then it looks like it's not their fault.

Because of this, most dealers won't even know that any have been available yet, unless they happened to check their systems for the short period of time while they were available.

So bottom line, rails have been released, but are now out of stock.

There's also no book information for labour on fitting; my dealer has quoted me 1hr or less. As far as I know, the only dealer with any experience of fitting them to date is Conwy LR in Wales.

And I'm afraid that they are not compatible with the sunroof.

Just need to correct your statement. The roof bars are defintely compatible with the sunroof versons of FL2. You need to question whoever told you that they were not!!

It's still the offical Land Rover line - that these roof rails are not compatible with the sunroof. I've had 4 dealers confirm that to me, straight from LR's literature.

Tandemman wrote:

I would be more concerned with the noise from the following police car at 100 and the pain of subsequent loss of licence.........

I hadn't realised until I saw Tandemmans pictures that the the rails had a fixed cross brace to them. That probably explains the possible wind noise issue. I would have thought that they would have been strong enough on their own without the bracing, as that would be provided when the detachable roof bars are fitted, ie when you actually need to use them for something.

Actually it is the fixed crossbar that reduces the wind noise it is aerofoil in profile with 4 anti turbulance spoilers underneath. If you install it upside down(very easy to do) or if the mini spoilers underneath are missing then you get wind noise. you also get less rain on your rear screen when you have the rails on.

Thats interesting, although having looked again at Lr's website, the roofrails shown only show the front-rear rails, I guess I will just have to carry on badgering the dealer. thanks for the info.