Bike rack for Audi Cabriolet
Bike rack for Audi Cabriolet
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Flying Peach

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102 posts

219 months

Wednesday 11th June 2008
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Can anyone tell me the best bike rack for an Audi A4 Cabrio without a towbar please?

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

257 months

Thursday 12th June 2008
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Mate of mine got one for his A3 from Halfords. Really nice quality actually, and doesn't cover the plate/lights.

Worth a look.

prand

6,230 posts

219 months

Thursday 12th June 2008
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Parrot of Doom said:
Mate of mine got one for his A3 from Halfords. Really nice quality actually, and doesn't cover the plate/lights.

Worth a look.
An A3 hatchback will have a very different rack to a saloon type cabriolet boot. I've yet to find a suitable one for an e46 coupe/convertible, but they all hang over the lights and therefore mean extra electrics & hassle attaching.

The towbar option seems to be one of the only ways, but for £200+ hardly worth it.

skibum

1,032 posts

260 months

Thursday 12th June 2008
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Saris Bones?

I bought one for my RX8 but never got around to using it. Seems as if it is designed well and ideal for coupe's/saloons rather than hatchbacks.

Obscuring lights and plate - I've never really worried about that and never been pulled over for it. Is it that big of a deal?

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

257 months

Thursday 12th June 2008
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prand said:
Parrot of Doom said:
Mate of mine got one for his A3 from Halfords. Really nice quality actually, and doesn't cover the plate/lights.

Worth a look.
An A3 hatchback will have a very different rack to a saloon type cabriolet boot. I've yet to find a suitable one for an e46 coupe/convertible, but they all hang over the lights and therefore mean extra electrics & hassle attaching.

The towbar option seems to be one of the only ways, but for £200+ hardly worth it.
This one my mate has is designed to work on either.

prand

6,230 posts

219 months

Friday 13th June 2008
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Great - might have a look.

The police can and will do you for obscuring lights & number plates. (I was stopped and given a warning & producer and told to go home ASAP when I borrowed my friend's rack).

Parrot of Doom

23,075 posts

257 months

Friday 13th June 2008
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Well we get 2 bikes on this one (there is room for 3 at a squeeze), take the wheels off and bungee cord the chains together, and the lights and plate are completely unobstructed.

It might fit yours, it might not, but I do know he said they also do one that would fit mine (boot like yours) that holds the bikes high above the bootline.