Please also note that all roof bar instructions point out the dangers of carrying unsecured long items, as of course do all kayak carrier instructions. If you tie down your kayaks properly you almost certainly won't experience a product failure. If you don't you may or may not get away with it. If there is a disaster and the kayaks end up on the road, separated from the vehicle, then you were not using tie downs and you have subjected the roof bars to forces for which they were not designed. The costs of sorting this out are yours, not ours, and you may also have difficulties with your insurers. When selecting the best roof bars for Nissan X-Trail you need to understand your budget, what you'll be carrying and the style of bar you'd like on the roof of your vehicle. If you plan on using your roof bars a couple of times a year for small trips or weekends away then a cheaper roof bar set may be more appealing. If you're someone who's looking for something more aesthetically pleasing in design or who regular transports bulky equipment on their car then spending a bit more can prove to be more efficient in the long run. How do you fit roof bars to my Nissan X-Trail? Adapter Kit: The Adapter Kit contains the essential components required to fix the roof bars to the vehicle. It may well be specific to this vehicle; you can see how it fits by looking at the Fitting instructions tab. Note that the picture just shows a typical flush rails Adapter Kit, to give you an idea of what to expect. The aim of this note is to persuade you that kayaks should always be tied to the carrying vehicle at both bow and stern.

They allow you to use the full length of your roof bars, which means you can carry more, and/or allow more space between accessories. This is because the accessories (e.g. bike carriers) fit into the slot in the top of each bar, well away from the roof bar feet which fit into a slot in the bottom of the bar. Steel bars are not so adaptable, because accessory fittings - which wrap around the bars - have to be positioned to avoid the roof bar feet. Untied kayaks have, in our experience, the greatest potential for a roof bar or kayak carrier failure. The massive forces that untied kayaks can generate have even been known to snap roof bar fixing bolts with the result that a complete assembly of roof bars and kayaks has ended up on the road. We know that this has happened with almost every brand of roof bar, and regardless of whether the kayaks are on a special carrier or just strapped to the bars.

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