Subaru Forester Roof Rack by Tough Touring
Tough Touring makes a Solid roof rack specifically for the Subaru Forester - and Specifically to suit fitment of Roof top tents The Rack itself weighs around 20Kg complete with all fitting hardware and Planks.
Our custom designed rails and crossbars are in a solid 1 piece "outfolded" Configuration - Creating the lowest and strongest Touring rack - or foundations for your chosen roof top tent - we reccommend use of pull out awnings on this vehicle - its just too low for pole less awnings.
We offer a Unique type of Rack Planks to marry up to the roof rails - "3 x Top Hat Bar Planks" are supplied for Ultimate strength and easiest tent removal/ Each Bar Plank can handle heavy duty point loads, While they also allow independent Awning to rack installations with Pre -drilled mount points already cut using our Tough Touring Awning to Rack Brackets to mount your pull out awning are shown here
The Tough Touring Roof Racks are Capable of handling typical Hardshell Tent loads in harsh off road environments - and can withstand a lifetime of punishing corregation abuse with their zero weld, M8 Bolt up structure. The Tough Touring Racks sit so low they help reduce vehicle body roll and wind noise - they also improve vehicle stability when loaded on the roof.
The Subaru
The SUBARU Tough Touring Roof rack Kits includes:
ROOF RAILS:* 12 Assorted Aluminium Billet (laser cut) spacers
* 16 x High Tensile Hex Bolts and washers for rail mounting into the rail channels
1 Tube Sikka flex Adhesive sealant
12 x 40mm Countersunk Hex Head bolts and Nyloc nuts for fastening roof planks to rails.
2 x Low Mount One Piece Roof rails - Folded at 77 degrees with 2 Tough Touring logo's fitted on sides
6 x Rack Feet - Folded at 70 Degrees - Designed to fit Front and Rear Inside the roof rail, middle one outside the rail for maximum anti twist and easy installation. (Same strength as a Toyota Prado)
RACK PLANKS:
3 Tough Touring TOP HAT Bar planks - (Ultimate strength) - best suited for wider tents and or point loads - Available in 1350mm sizes for this vehicle
All parts cut in Australian MILD Steel, SandBlasted for Maximum Paint Bond and Powdercoated in Black Dulux Textura for ultimate durability and rust resistance.
*Unique Design means all bolts to roof rack planks are accessable from beside the vehicle for easy removal once fitted.
Please complete the below fields so we can give you the right width planks to suit your tent , awning or Tent and Awning combination.
Tough Touring Strongly reccommends using Professional Roof rack fitters to fit this component.
All Subaru Roof rack fittments require headlining to be removed and reverse dome nut bolt kit to be fitted for safety and to allow proper deployment of air bags. More information on our kit to achieve this here https://www.toughtouring.com.au/product-page/reverse-dome-nut-roof-rack-hardware-kit
Please tell us if your fitting a roof tent
Technical / Fitting
Fitting:
Tough Touring roof rails can be fitted by any roof rack fitter, or yourself if your handy. Included is a tube of Sikkaflex 221 Automotive sealant and new High tensile steel mounting bolts. Adding the rail planks is easier on the back - as the unique design of the TT roof rails allows all bolts to be accessed from beside the vehicle.
Installation:
Tips on Installation are here online in Video format - https://youtu.be/PlXv-3uHB30... (no printed instructions come with the rack)
Adaptability:The Roof racks have been designed by us to to accomomodate awnings and roof top tents specifically without fouling on Vehicle wind fairings etc on most popular awning brands available toda
Our Vehicle Specific 'One Piece ' roof rail Kits for the vehicles above follow the vehicles roof lines perfectly while positioning the rack precisely around foul points / Protruding wind fairings - they have been tested with most of the awning and tent combinations listed and are the closest possible fit we can achieve.
Widths of touring gear are really important, For example - If you are running a Bundutop Standard Tent 1350mm wide ) , and wish to run a pole less wing awning independently to the tent (Ie Fitted to the rack) Please choose the 1450mm Planks option in the Product Options below. So that your tent will sit inside the Pole less awning brackets. You need to understand that in fitting roof tents behind awnings, its likely that you will have to also re-position tent latches as required.Listed on the Store page are a pair of replacement Slats to add to your roof rail while the tent is removed - You would typically require at least 4 slats to create a functioning roof rack. (The Front and Rear Tough Touring Slats remain on the rails as the tent is lifted off, two slats would go up and off still fixed to the tent, So purchase an additional 2 slats - Bolt them on while the tent is off, and fitted you would then have 4 slats back on the car for a functioning rack - (and no need to remove the awning...Which stays fitted to the front and rear tough touring slats.) You could add up to 10 in total....
As Shown in the pictures above, the Universal Rails themselves are an excellent foundation for many other rack baskes, flat racks, mounting platforms... Customers are mounting all kinds of boxes and custom made gear to them, due to their versatility and nice strong low mount.