Cargo Rail

Thinking ahead (again), it is likely that I will want to carry something, maybe sand ladders, on the side of the vehicle. Off side only as there is a window on the near side.

Given that work on the inside will be carried out soon, I need to mount Cargo Rail (1805 light duty tracking) now. Once the interior panels are fitted, I will not be able to access the ends of the bolts to secure them.

I found some very nice Aluminium Brackets from Oryx Solutions in Germany which fold down, so you could use a mounted sand ladder or recovery track as a make shift table. These were ordered as they would determine the gap between cargo rails.

Oryx make some great products for all sorts of vehicles and if I had not wanted to make use of the cabinets that I already had, then their range of interior fittings would have been very tempting; maybe next time!

The brackets are beautifully made but very expensive, especially when you factor in import duty. The actual cargo rail and fittings are not exactly budget purchases either!

Having the ply lining inside, made a very secure way of bolting the Cargo Rail on the vehicle.

This was one of those jobs that you cannot do on your own, so I enlisted the help of my Dad to hold the top rail whilst the holes were drilled and the rail bolted into place – stainless steel with lots of Sikaflex.

We then used the brackets to correctly position the bottom rail and repeated the procedure.

It was then simple to mount the brackets . I have other fittings, so can use the rail for other items as well, in the future.

I ordered some recovery boards, that I suspect we will only use for levelling the vehicle on camp sites and for getting out of the odd slippy situation. If we were considering serious off reading then I would go for the Matrix product.