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Adam: What's going on, everybody Adam here, with etrailer. Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Thule Vector Alpine Rooftop Cargo Box, on our 2019 BMW X3. If you guys are looking for one of the most premium cargo boxes I've ever messed with, look no further, this is it. It's absolutely massive, absolutely gorgeous and has all the features that I would want in a cargo box. One, it locks. Two, it's a hard-shell case.
Three, you can open up from this side or that side. Four, it's really, really easy to install. It's got great mounting hardware. It doesn't take any time at all. And five, you got LEDs on the inside, so when you guys are loading up at night, you guys can see.It's got a nice aerodynamic shape to it.
As you guys can see too, we have it on a BMW right now, and it kind of curves with the roof of the car, kind of looks pretty cool. And this is just going to be really good for not effecting your fuel economy that much on those long trips. The hooks here, we do have a coating on them, so they're not really going to scratch you guys' bars. You guys like to take care of your bars and you don't want them to get scratched up. Don't worry because these mounting hardware will not scratch it up.I really do like the way that the box mounts to the bars, but the bottom doesn't do it justice.
So I'm going to take my key, we're going to get two with the kit, both sides lock, unlock it, open it up like that, done deal. I'm going to get up here real quick, so you guys can take a look at the top end of these hooks. Really, really neat, pretty easy to do. You don't really need a tool or anything like that. And the nice thing about it is, we are going to be able to slide these along, so if you guys have existing bars already go, ahead and just kind of move these around.
They should fit, but check your instructions, there is a crossbar spread that we are trying to hit. And between about 22 to about 37 inches is pretty much what we want. But we didn't really have any issues fitting it up on this roof. We have the arrow bars from Thule, and they fit just fine.Before we start to load up, we have three cam buckle straps that come with it. And the nice thing about this box is we have little tie-downs right here. So that's going to be super nice. What I'm going to do is just before we do anything, just kind of fish these through, get them to kind of sit on the bottom end. And what we'll do once we start loading all of our stuff up, obviously we'll start connecting those and tighten them down. So there's three of them, which is nice, so whatever you guys put in here, it's going to be nice and secured with the provided straps, which is something I like, just because this isn't necessarily the most cost-effective way to get your stuff to and from. But luckily, because with lights and straps like these, so they definitely went the extra mile, which I appreciate. So get these on. And once we do that, they're all the same, we'll go ahead and load up our gear.After we get everything strapped down, I mean, to be honest, it's just extremely solid, is not going anywhere, I wouldn't really be too concerned with this stuff going anywhere anyway. But if you guys are concerned with it and you really just want to get your stuff nice and compact together and not move, this is definitely doing the trick. We have about two sets of skis and two boards. One doesn't have bindings on it, but that doesn't necessarily matter. Sometimes I usually just swap my bindings from one board to the other. But we have a lot more room that we really could fit in here. We could probably fit up to four, maybe even five snowboards at a time, maybe some bags or gear. But all in all, this is a lot of equipment and it fits just fine.One thing I really like about it is if you guys take a look at the LED down there. When I waved my hand, it is motion sensing all that stuff. So basically, every single time we open it up, it's going to kind of detect that. So we don't really have to worry about one, turning it on and off. If you guys forget to turn it off, if you guys ever had LEDs in a cargo box, odds are, the batteries are probably going to be dead. Luckily we h
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