Martin offroad rack opinion

I will eventually get a camper rack too. Once I get my camp trailer finished, I can start back on the truck

 

Does the Martin camper topper install the same way as the prinsu? Does it have the feet to go into Thule rails?

My leer topper has been ordered. Awaiting delivery!

 

Great quality, excellent service and price that is appropriate, not inflated.

 

What kills me about other racks, they are over priced then ridiculous shipping rates. They are obviously makng money on shipping too. When I ask if I can provide a shipping label (I have a business account) they won't do it. Their $100ish shipping charge for me is under $20. I assume their cost is no different.

 

Yes the mounts attach to the tracks, mine are Yakima (ARE) but same as Thule used on Leer/Snugtop. Just make sure your tracks are installed correctly some leer caps have been sent out with tracks in the wrong sides making the angle wrong or something. He just made his mounts for the topper racks, previously was using smittybuilt. My topper rack is about 1/2” higher than my cab rack, but Gage has an ARE and his were perfect with the adjustment range of the brackets. He is going to fab me up new brackets with adjustment to lower it. Caps are layered fiberglass so they can range in specs unit to unit. His is probably on the lower side of spec and mine in on the higher side. Really great vendor though, and high quality product.

 

I have a prinsu front. I was wondering how well a Martin topper would match. Especially height wise.

 

I finally got everything installed this morning. Prinsu mounts did work, I had to trim some more off of the wind faring. When I ordered it from Gage, they were going to cut the wind faring to fit the light. They did, but where the wiring for the light comes out, was hitting The faring where the prinsu mounts had the bolts line up.

 

Just need to get some Rust oleum paint for where I trimmed with the grinder

 

Looks great. Is that the Caliraised dual function LED bar or the Amazon version?

 

It’s the CaliRaised. I like it. I don’t do a lot of technical off roading, but works great for me.

 

I thought about adding a cutout for light bar in mine, but kayaks and canoes on top would bash it up. I also wondered how much extra wind noise there would be.

 

The noise is not bad with the windows open. If I open the sunroof it's a bit more bothersome. I originally had no light and full fairing and very little noise (I added a rubber gasket between the bottom of the fairing and roof). When I added the light and changed the fairing it got noisy.

 

Ordered the rack, the shell rack and that light. Love the look and it should add the functionality I'm looking for.

 

I purchased one. Highly recommended!!!

 

Yeah mine is much more quiet that the rack I had on my 4Runner. I have a door edge gasket on mine and have adjusted the angle of the fairing a bit to get it close but not touching the roof. Great racks overall.

 

I ordered one before Christmas and it was shipped quickly. When I put it on, the rear bar would not clear the sharkfin (2020 DCSB) and I reached out to Gage for a solution. He shipped me out the longer side rails and the rear crossbar now clears the sharkfin and the rack is awesome.

I use it to put my fishing poles on with a ski mount (perfect for fishing poles). Wind noise is minimal and the fit and finish is perfect. When I mounted it, I measured where the holes in the truck where and transferred those measurements to the weather stripping and used tin snips to cut through the metal strip and then used a 3/4 hole punch to make the hole for the standoffs to go through.

Looks like it was made that way from the factory!

 

Damn wish I would have saw these before I bought my Prinsu very close in looks but much better price point with the Martin

 

I installed rear cross bar vertically, that helped to cleared the fin

 

Shipped very quickly and installation was a breeze. Very quiet compared to any other rack I've ever owned. Very happy!

 

That looks great!!