Roof bars on Caravelle

[johndub]

Hi all
I bought a second hand set of omtech roof rails for my caravelle.

Now, you guys probably know (but I didn’t) that the caravelle has a set of factory fitted roof rails.

Does a fitting kit exist to allow the rails to fit onto the existing rails? Then I don’t lose the oem functionality, but I get the look of the rails, which I prefer.

 

[roadtripper]

My MY21 T6.1 Caravelle SE didn't come with any rails or preparation, just the plain roof bolts.

By the sounds of it you have the Roof Bar Preparation which is a track pre mounted in the roof gutter like this:



Those need a specific kind of cross bar, not the generally available rails that fit the 4 (SWB) or 5 (LWB) bolt rails.

See also this thread

Roof prep - are these rails OEM?

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[johndub]

Yep that's what I have.

I am hoping to find a way to attach more traditional roof rails to them, more for aesthetics than functionality.

I would remove them, but looking underneath them this afternoon, it became apparent that they have rubbed through the paint at a couple of spota that I'll need to deal with, but also I'm not keen on trying to waterproof the remaining 4 bolt holes each side

 

[roadtripper]

There is a good thread on waterproofing the bolt holes that I followed when mounting the awning rail on mine, and you are right to be cautious as leaks here run down inside the body it's not a brilliant design to be honest.

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Got some ebay roof rails and did not want to gorm silicone into and around the fixing holes. Instead I got some M6 threaded bar cut a little longer than the bolts supplied with the rails. I then used the rubber washers that came off the blanking bolts together with a washer and M6 nyloc nut...

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