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How To Fit a Thule Bike Rack to a Caravan, Straightforward Right?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2022
- Fitting a Thule bike rack to the back of my caravan, the brackets are already pre-fitted by Swift Caravan, so this should be straightforward, right?
It seems that Thule may have over simplified the instructions and quite a lot of head-scratching was required.
This Thule bike rack is designed to be fitted to a touring caravan or motorhome, if you have a Swift model from 2016 it will have the bars pre fitted, however, the kit also comes with the fitting brackets so you can fit it to other motorhomes or caravan brands
The rack I have fitted is a Thule Elite G2 - Standard version, the difference between a 'standard' and 'short' is the distance between the upper and lower mounts. here is a link to the rack.
Thule Elite G2
* Stable and solid attachment to the rear wall of a motorhome or caravan
* Ideal for e-bikes with a load capacity of up to 60 kg
Read more here
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All Swift motorhomes and caravans (except Basecamp) from 2016 come with the mounts fitted, however, this kit does come with the mountings if you are looking to fit to a non 2016 onwards Swift you can do that.
To find out more about Big White Box visit our website here.
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I think it’s the best bike rack installation I have seen. Great stuff.
This helped me to unmount the rack without force, thank's a lot!
Glad you found it helpful
Great video, totally agree the instructions are rubbish, just about to fit one to our swift caravan today, not sure if you did off camera but when fitting the lower section there are two black plastic washers that clip into either side before you put the bolt through.
Thanks again, no clowning around just a straight forward video, cheers
If Thule made video instructions... they wouldn't be as good as yours. Invaluable video to supplement the less than adequate instructions that come with the kit. Fitted today on our new Swift Conqueror. The only additional advice that I would add to yours is to wear safety glasses when drilling in the self tapping screws. The very effective screw cutting edge throws off swarf, even though I was using a Makita driver with speed control at slow speed.
Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful
Love the fact you should all the issues you encountered rather than a well edited video making it look easy. Why manufactures don’t write simple instructions is beyond me. Have you noticed any stability issues have extra weight at the back of the caravan? Thanks 👍😃
Thanks Simon, you have to adjust your nose weight when the bikes are on but apart from that no issues at all.
Thanks for posting this helpful video as I don’t think I would have managed only with their paper instructions. There’s certainly a few sections missing from the instruction booklet . Great quality bike rack though.
Glad it was helpful!
Enjoyed watching this as never seen these fitted before and how you gor it fitted.
i'd given up taking the bike as it's a pain heaving it up onto the SUVs roof and then enduring the loud constant wind screeching while the dedicated roof bars are on. This woukd be a great option but not seen one for our caravan without any caravan bike rack rails on the back..
Thanks for the informative video.
Very helpful, thanks. Definitely needed the step 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much the video definitely helped. Definitely saved a Divorce 😂😂 txs a million
Very informative video. 👍
Glad you liked it
Surely the short rack is what you should have ordered? The one you said in the video you shouldn’t order. :-)
Your Standard height rack (that you had to modify and make shorter) is for motorhomes. The short one goes from 600 to 800mm between the vertical brackets. And Swift fitted the brackets exactly 800mm apart.
Hello ! Great video ! My camper came with the mounting rails at 50 cm distance.. I need to install a 4 bike rack and only Thule has them .The problem is that Thule racks have from 80 to 150 cm height. Do you think that the rack bars could be cut so that it could be fitted in a 50 cm height ? Thank you for the neat video !
I think they have a short version, reach out to Thule I am sure they can help
Great video, very helpful, thanks for doing this.
Hi did you fit the original rails to your caravan or do they come with them fitted.
I’ve an elddis caravan and I’m wondering can I put a bike rack on the back or is it capable of carrying it . Thanks
I thought plastic/nylon screws were a poor idea. We like to drive to our chosen trails so prefer the bikes on the roof of our tow car.
Very helpful if you have mounting rails already fitted but the latest Thule G2 Motorhome rack comes with a glue mounting clamp rail so no drilling.. can’t find any TH-cam content on these at all..
Great video
Do u leave the rack fitted when not being used?
Imagine very nicable
hi how do i known if i need the short one or the long one... its for the back of a standard swift caravan..
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