Good towers, bad pads.

By JP Ranked #540 - Car Racks October 29, 2009

I've had these for about two years now and they work great. I move across country usually twice a year (Texas to Montana)and take my 17 foot sea kayak and mountain bike with me each time. That equals up to about 10,000 miles of traveling with this rack system. I've driven at times up to 90 miles per hour, driven through torrential downpours, windstorms and on dirt roads so bad I’ve actually seen people crack their oil pan on it and these Q Towers have always held on tight and secure. If you buy the lock cores you can lock your rack to your car which is a relief. Since I travel so much, the clips have made a few scratches in the paint where they grip onto the car but that's probably cause the stickers started coming off allowing the metal clips to rub against the paint. Replacing the stickers solved that issue. If I had any gripe with these it has to do with the rubber feet on the towers. One, they stick pretty solidly to the finish of my car and getting them off can take a while. Two, they have left a faint outline on the finish of my car that i just cant remove. Three, I tried to clean them up a bit to get all that road grime that had built up on them off thinking that that was what marked my car and they basically turned to jelly and became unusable. I had to buy a new set. Note to others, DO NOT USE SIMPLE GREEN TO CLEAN THE Q TOWERS PADS – THEY WILL TURN TO MUSH. Other than that these have been great.

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