Hard top roof rack notches

[Ruggles]

Why does the smaller four door clamshell have two different spots for attaching the roof rack, but the longer 2 door hard top only has one? Hoping to just have bars on the rear clamshell of my future 2 door (see Interactive Garage rendering) I'm sure there will be aftermarket options, but just wondering.

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[Squatch]

Ford bean counters want the 2-door to fail.

 

[MCG DAWG]

Mods, can you move to Exterior mods board?

 

[BroncoJeremie]

There's 3 mounts in total for roof racks, one on the windshield and the 2 or the rear panel, this so far as I can see was just give more places to mount different sizes racks rather than he forced to do a super long one or super short one

 

[BroncoFanBoy]

Maybe because the overall roof length of the four door is longer and you may need a middle support depending on the type of rack and load you are carrying. Seems like they weren’t really considering the racks for rear clamshell only when they made that decision.

 

[Lab00Rat]

I'd want the A-pillar support for the rack included in any configuration. Placing all the load on the clam shell without the A-pillar sounds like a bad idea.

 

[MaverickMan]

So far, correct me if Im wrong, but we havent seen a 4 door rack that used both rear mount positions on the 4 door. I hope there is a rack that does this aswell as the fronts. That would give a much better load holding ability. 110/450 pounds is just not enough for us. I hope it gets up to 300/750 with an aftermarket rack. One other thing I just thought though on the 4 door the rear mount could be used for a low profile rear awning of some sort that didnt interfere with the main rack.

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