(Roof Rack) filling the roof channels

[Ron at bunch.org (Ron@bunch.org)]

Assuming you are referring to the black trim pieces either side of the 
roof, they were designed to  accept a very slick dealer option roof rack 
that mounted at four corner points on the roof and came with cross piece 
attachments for bikes and skis.
You could remove the crosspiece attachments and just drive with the low 
black siderails of the rack on top.
I saw them listed at dealers in Germany mid 1980s and meant to buy one. 
Never did.
I recall only seeing maybe three examples on the road.
I haven't been back to Germany in 9 years and maybe I've spent too much 
time in the wrong places here, missing the fact that every other Scirocco 
owner has one. Not sure.
But, if we are talking about the same channels and anyone has a rack: 
please contact me off list.
I still want one!


At 08:41 AM 2/16/04 -0600, Mark Langford wrote:
>I'm about to paint my 87 Scirocco, and spent Friday removing everything
>that's not a faded-to-pink version of Tornado red.  After peeling off the
>black "drip rails" from the roof (that's all I can think they'd be for),  I
>called the VW stealership, where I was told these were available only if you
>bought the entire roof.  Well, I'd already been thinking of getting rid of
>them anyway, so that confirmed it.
>
>I was thinking of mixing up some epoxy with microballoons and filling them
>completely with this stuff (same stuff composite aircraft builders use), as
>it's not as prone to cracking as polyester type body fillers.  Has anybody
>filled these channels with something, and did it last without eventually
>cracking? And what did you use?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>
>Mark Langford, markl "at"  hiwaay.net
>1974 2110cc Karmann Ghia  (http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/ghia2.jpg)
>1987 2.0L 16V Scirocco
>1999 1.8T Audi A4 Avant
>2001 1.8T GTI w/APR chip
>see Corvair powered KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
>
>
>
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