General: XC90 Roofbox Height Clearance - Under 2.1m?

[Balistaff]

Originally Posted by prjames

Have you considered soft roof luggage? - sits on actual roof between bars.
Very portable - ours breaks down into 3 large bags.

Nope, I already have the roof box and several sets of Thule roof bars accumulated over the years. Nice idea though

[Balistaff]

Talking of the several sets of Thule Roof bars I have, the latest ones have the lowest profile. It's mainly all in the Feet!

The image below shows the graduation in height and in real life it's quite stark:

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This is a better comparison to see the height difference:

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Well the car + Wingbars + roof-box seems to get under 2.1m using a wooden beam across a couple of uprights. Was under by approx 10mm. Still not convinced though, even though I measured twice.

Either I've measured wrong, the estimates are bad or the car suspension has sunk over the years from the Volvo stated dimensions of 1784mm in height. Any ideas?

[Balistaff]

I did find a useful website that you can filter on vehicle height:
https://www.parkopedia.de/parking/ga...g=202402200600

OK, so I gave up on calculating total heights as the maximum height of a couple of car parks where I was going were well below 2.1m (actually 1.8m and 1.9m) and I didn't fancy a walk with the car being far away from the Hotel whoch could cater for +2.1m.

So instead I took the main luggage out at the Hotel I actually wanted to stay at and then took the roofbox contents out and put them in the boot. Then I took the roofbox off and slid it into the car itself. Luckily it was not raining and the roofbox was clean (enough). All worked really well.

The underground car-park was 1.8m max; due to the roller door, which is often the case.

Below are images of a 'test' I did before travelling: