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I'd like to be able to do that, too. I go snowboarding a lot (was a snowboard instructor for 6 years) and end up in some bad weather where they'd be handy, but we'll see. I need new tires and to build a hitch for my small motorcycle trailer, so they're first on the list before lights.

Lol, well here's the thing with the aerosol cans. I'm pretty sure that my bare arms (wearing a tshirt) would sense any heat issues before the cans would get hot enough to matter. Those have been there for months without issue, so it isn't really a concern of mine. If I was using my OA torch, then yeah, I'd be concerned, but the welding sparks don't really worry me. Stupid? Probably, but it has yet to be a problem. Woodenspoon, Mine's a bit shorter than yours, and the angles aren't really the same, but I have it as far back as I can. The front edge of the deflector is about an inch in front of the sunroof, and it seems to work really well there. I'm still debating on whether I'm going to put lights on it or not. I work at a parts store, so I may take one out of the box and hold it up there to see how it looks before I make a decision.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/speedgood/7042177423/in/photostream There's a quick video of me pulling on it. Safe to say it's mounted pretty securely. Lol

Yeah, I lost a center cap romping around in the woods and never got around to replacing it. I put that door trim around all the "sharp" edges in case I use those holes to tie down a tarp or something while camping. Bolting system Drove it to work yesterday and the wind deflector works great. NO whistle at all. I'm very happy with it's performance.

I'll get a more decent photo tomorrow since I'm off work.

Haha, I was going to say that I borrowed part of it from ya, but couldn't remember what thread I saw it in. Lol.

mine gets around 15 city/19 highway with 210k on the clock. I think a lot of it is that all the stations around here run an ethanol mix, which will hurt your mileage since alcohol has half of the energy potential than gasoline does. Just another reason why my daily driver when it isn't raining is a dr250s. 70-75mpg is hard to argue with. lol

Thanks, guys! It tilts a bit forward, so I need to shim the front up a bit, but other than that I'm happy with it. Hopefully it's not too tall.

Built this for my r50. Has a tubular frame with tabs for adding lights later.

Making sure everything's nice and level. TADA! We're getting somewhere. Added the mounting points. It'll just mount to my stock roof rack with bolts that will slide right in. Fun little action shot. And here's the finished frame after painting and adding a few tabs. I added four tabs in case I want to add lights later, which I probably will. I didn't take photos of making the actual windscreen, but it's made out of a single piece of 1/2" ballistic lexan or plexi or something heated and bent to shape, because it's what I had. It was clear, so I hit it with a quick nasty coat of black paint. The screen itself will be plastered with stickers, I'm sure, so it doesn't have to look too good. There were a few runs in the paint on the actual deflector since I was painting it in a dark corner of my garage at night, so, to hide them, I "embellished" the thing in stickers. Good thing I have a lot of different hobbies that involve buying things that come with stickers. Lol. This, like my cargo cages, was a zero dollar project as well, so I'm really happy with how it came out. Sorry for the last camera phone shot. I'll get better ones tomorrow when I'm off work.

So my pathfinder's roof rack has snowboard racks on it, and they whistle. A lot. It's annoying. So I'm making a wind deflector. Started with a piece of what used to be shelving in a TjMaxx. It's not galvanized. It's just painted silver. I didn't measure the wall thickness, and, honestly, I don't really care what it is. It doesn't need to lift the car off the ground, so no big deal. Lol Mitered the ends and welded 'em to get the angle I wanted. Welded the ends of the little pieces back on reverse from where they started so "cap" the ends of the tubing so I can get a weld all the way around, and so water and such can't get inside the tube. Started on the side plates. Yes, that's a sawblade. Makes great plate steel since I have 20394203948320948 of 'em laying around. Best part about sawblades is that they're tempered, so you can score the steel, then hit it with a hammer and break it cleanly enough. Tacked the two side plates together so I could drill some securing holes and grind them to identical shapes.

Looks good to me! I may end up building a bumper, myself, before long.

I actually do have a 12v cooler, and, after heading to the lake to enjoy the sun (78 degrees here yesterday) I realized that it should have been in my car. I may just run a standard fill-it-with-ice cooler, though, since I don't want to run down the battery. As far as sleeping in a pathfinder, I usually put a ramp of pillows over the folded back seat bottom and almost on top of it. That, with a few sleeping pads on the floor, make for a pretty decent sleeping experience. Somewhere I have a bike rack kicking around, and I hadn't considered that. Another idea was heavy duty velcro, as i've seen some company manufactured overhead rifle racks with that, but i'm not sold on the idea just yet.

I'll get you some closeups photos, but i basically removed the laundry/grocery tie downs and used where they were bolted into, so there's one mount on the top, and two on the bottom. One drawback is that you lose the hooks near the hatch for the cargo cover, but i'm okay with that. Need be I can just hook it onto the cages.

Welllllllll I could get it to the hold downs (I think), but the cage is mounted where the original hooks for it are, so I haven't really tried. I typically use the cover as a divider in the back.