Several popular roof boxes fail Testfakta’s crash test. Skis and boots fly like projectiles, or the whole box comes off.
The ski season is under way and the roads north are busy with mountain travellers, often with a roof box on their car. But in a crash, the box and its contents could be a real danger to other road users.
Testfakta asked SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden to crash test seven different plastic roof boxes at a speed of 40 kilometres per hour. Several of the boxes did very poorly – either th