JHZR2
Staff member
We bought our 2014 Odyssey new this past summer. It had been living in a display in the dealership.
The vehicle had never seen snow and no salt. No rain for much of its life being in a display.
The van has a roof rack and cross bars. We didn't need to put our Christmas tree on the roof, so I figured I'd take off the cross rails, to help with aerodynamics. No big deal, right?!? Well for six of eight, no.
The other two? Felt some resistance, let off and went the other way a bit. Tried again, nothing.
One of them just spun and spun from the start.
Poorly chosen materials, bad design, monkeys who wrenched too tight???
One way or another, now I've got issues. And the darn van is so high that it's tough even for me 6 ft 4-5in to work on. No idea how is best to fix this. I'd say that I'd just put the cross rails on and leave it be...
But they won't tighten either now.
Any ideas?
The thing that holds the screws looks like this:
My complaint with our integra was generally poorly chosen materials. My Saab had a design just like this where torx bolts screw into a female threaded hole on the car, saw tons of salt, and I'd routinely install and remove the rack yearly for skiing. Ugh!!
The vehicle had never seen snow and no salt. No rain for much of its life being in a display.
The van has a roof rack and cross bars. We didn't need to put our Christmas tree on the roof, so I figured I'd take off the cross rails, to help with aerodynamics. No big deal, right?!? Well for six of eight, no.
The other two? Felt some resistance, let off and went the other way a bit. Tried again, nothing.
One of them just spun and spun from the start.
Poorly chosen materials, bad design, monkeys who wrenched too tight???
One way or another, now I've got issues. And the darn van is so high that it's tough even for me 6 ft 4-5in to work on. No idea how is best to fix this. I'd say that I'd just put the cross rails on and leave it be...
But they won't tighten either now.
Any ideas?
The thing that holds the screws looks like this:
My complaint with our integra was generally poorly chosen materials. My Saab had a design just like this where torx bolts screw into a female threaded hole on the car, saw tons of salt, and I'd routinely install and remove the rack yearly for skiing. Ugh!!