Bought two of these separately after reading reviews and it worked out great. Since they were packed and covered separately I could take stuff out at a stop from one of them without unbuckling the other.
The first trip that these guys took on top of my 4-Runner was a long and wet one. We had bad downpour of rain and hail for about 6 hours on Interstate driving and medium to heavy rain on the way back from like 2:30pm one day to 8am the next. Not a drop inside the bags.
The cover, as the manufacturer has stated is only to protect the bags, not the rain itself. I would surely recommend using the cover since that would keep the bugs and other flying object, including rocks, out of the bag.
The bags are easy to store inside their original boxes when not used.
One review said they got scratches on the roof because of the bags moving around. I got a little bit one way of the trip. On the way back, I moved the side bars on the roof so the bags were snug between them and this time I had no more scratches.
The straps and buckles may not be the greatest available out there, but they work fine.
This has been a great bag. It's weatherproof and the perfect size for the top/front of our Volkswagen van. We used it on a two-week road trip and it still seems like it has years worth of life in it.
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