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FTER every 4x4 excursion there
comes a time when you need to
remove the awning, fishing rod
tube, recovery tracks and any other
accessory fitted to your roof racks before
the working week starts, but you can’t be
bothered because it’ll take too long.
Enter The Quick Fit Bracket from
Smart Touring Systems. With this clever
kit added to each of your roof-mounted
accessories, removal and installation only
takes seconds. Yep, now you can whip your
awning, recovery boards and any other
accessory off in the blink of an eye.
To make this kit even better, all
accessories can be easily and quickly
re-installed onto roof racks. During our
test of the Quick Fit Bracket we had three
accessories removed from the 4x4 in about
20 seconds, and it took the same time to
re-install them.The only question is: Why hasn’t
someone thought of this before? It’s such
a simple, well-designed and manufactured
system, it is ludicrous no-one has ‘been
there and done that’. That’s exactly
the position Adam from Smart Touring
Systems found himself in. He wanted a
system that would allow efficient removal
and installation of his roof rack-mounted
accessories, so he set about making it
for himself. Necessity is the mother of
invention, eh?
Manufactured from laser-cut stainless
steel, with zinc-coated 8.8 high-tensile
hardware and high-density polyethylene
(HDPE) plates to resist rattling, the kit is
fitted in two halves to both the roof rack
and the accessory that is to be installed/
removed. This initial installation of
brackets requires the use of a spanner, but
the subsequent adding and removal of theaccessories only requires the release of a
locked pin from the system.
One kit comes with two Quick Fit
Brackets and two roof rack brackets, to
mount and remove one item (like an
awning). Extra roof rack brackets can be
purchased separately to allow an accessory
to be mounted to other parts of a rack.
And, to ensure thieving mongrels don’t
help themselves to your gear, the system
can be padlocked into place.
Keeping the gear secure and under
cover at all times will prevent weathering,
especially particular awnings that tend
to fall apart after a while. Other benefits
include reduced wind resistance, better
fuel consumption, lower overall heights
and weight savings.
Every roof rack should have a Quick Fit
Bracket kit (or two or three) attached. I
know mine will.gear
PRODUCT TEST – QUICK FIT BRACKET
WORDS AND PHOTOSMARK ALLENREMOVE AND RE-INSTALL ROOF
RACK ACCESSORIES IN A JIFFY.AVAILABLE FROM:
Facebook @
smarttouringsystems
RRP: $99 (including
delivery)
WE SAY: Every roof rack
should have them.RATED
QUICK SMART
If you store it on your rack,
chances are it can utilise a
Quick Fit Bracket.