Car Compatibility

Most Golf hatchbacks have no roof rails at all, which surprises a lot of owners expecting rails as standard on a car this size. If you’ve assumed your VW Golf has roof rails because most family hatchbacks of a similar size do, it’s worth checking before you buy anything, because most Golf hatchbacks actually have […]

The Octavia hatchback and estate use genuinely different roof bar systems, so knowing which body style you have is the first step, not an afterthought. If you’re trying to find roof bars for a Skoda Octavia, the first and most important thing to establish is which body style you’ve got, because the hatchback and the […]

The Focus comes in more roof configurations than most people expect, so the fitting kit that works for one Focus won’t necessarily work for another. If you’ve searched for roof bars for a Ford Focus and found conflicting results, that’s not you doing anything wrong. The Focus genuinely has more roof configurations than most family […]

What actually matters when you’re choosing a roof bar system, and when renting beats buying outright. Now you know how roof bar compatibility actually works, the next question is which roof bars to actually buy. The right answer depends on your situation. Are you using bars every month, or once a year? Do you want […]

Why bars from one car so rarely fit another, and what to actually check before you buy. If you’ve ever looked at roof bars on eBay or Facebook Marketplace, you’ve probably wondered why there are so many versions of what looks like the same thing. A Thule WingBar Evo is a Thule WingBar Evo, surely? […]

One of our customers came to us looking for used VW Polo roof bars for a VW Polo with no roof rails. Here’s what we found out together, and why the fitting kit turned out to matter more than the bars themselves. A customer got in touch looking for used roof bars for their 2020 […]