Thule Quest Cargo Bag

We purchased the Thule cargo bag for our recent trip to Florida. It rained at various times throughout the trip and nothing was wet inside. We also sprayed the outside with a water repellent prior to our trip...that may have helped. We were concerned about not having crossbars on the cargo rack, but it worked out just fine!

It is not waterproof!

If you're looking for a carry top bag that is easy to load and easy to mount to your car this is the carrier for you. It has very good hold downs, and it didn't seem to add much wind resistance to my car. If I'm looking a similar product in the future, I'll be looking at a Thule product first for sure.

We just took the Thule cargo bag on a 750 mile trip. That bag held a lot of stuff! It holds a lot more stuff than it looks like it can. It was simple to install to the roof rack, and worked perfect keeping all of our souvenirs safe until we got back home. Great bag for the price!

Holds a ton but can compress down if you've got less—that means less noise and better gas mileage. We had to trim the straps (which come very long) because they were flapping. We use it for family trips (2 adults, 2 children), the children can pack it like a suitcase on the bed and we load it on the car, then drag the whole bag to the cabin. This works a little better than I think a hard case would, where we'd be packing and unpacking more often.

The bag was well designed and definitely saved me room in the car. I only had two problems with it. 1) Had it been waterproof, I would not have had to wrap everything in trash bags to pack it. 2) The clips are made of cheap plastic and I already broke one strapping it down for the ride home. Other than these two problems, it did what it was supposed to do. Friction is doing a visible job of wearing off the water resistant coating on the inside of the bag where it rubbed on the corner of my suitcase, but that is to be expected. Summary: If the clips were made a little hardier, or Thule sent extras, I would recommend this bag in a second.

The Best! No complaints! No "flapping" noises in my 16 hour trip! Works well with standard roof racks.

Great customer service but I would not recommend this cargo bag. After one trip of 700 miles a seam came apart and the inside of the bag flaked terribly. This may have been an isolated incident, but I was fairly disgusted with the quality. However, the quality of customer support is great because they stood behind the product 100%. Thanks guys.

I just used this cargo bag on my Ford Explorer for a trip down to the Smokey Mountains. We drove down in the middle of the rain and wind that Hurricane Ivan was throwing the TN valley. The bag stayed put and although not waterproof, was pretty helpful in being water resistant. I'm not sure that anything would have sustained the rain we saw on our drive. We were in rain for a good 5 hrs. We packed our duffles inside large garbage bags inside the Quest. Our duffles were, for the most part, dry as a bone when we got there. The garbage bags weren't air-tight, which is the reason some wetness did seep in. I was impressed!

What a great aerodynamic cargo bag. Much better than all the other boxy designs. A snap to install, easy to load and you can't beat the price. A must have for anyone with a roof rack on their SUV.

Just drove 2400 miles from Rhode Island to Texas with the Quest holding clothes and camping gear. It did a great job: no noise, no difference in gas mileage. It's not waterproof, so I packed things in garbage bags and even through some amazing rains everything came through unscathed. Best of all, it packs into a tiny little cargo bag till next time.