Does anyone have a picture close up of what the filler strips look like on a P5?
There are two kinds of filler strips, which are you talking about?
1. You remove the rack but leave everything else bolted to the roof of the car. There are 4 short filler strips that go in the 4 holes where the rack's feet used to be. This work is done entirely outside the car. If you want to put the rack back on pull the 4 strips out and remount the rack. With the fillers in there is a smooth "bump" running down each side of the car which rises about an inch above the roof.
2. You remove the rack and everything else above the roof metal. It is replaced by one long strip on each side. Once this is done the rack has no place to mount. To do this the liner has to be pulled off the ceiling to provide access to the mounting bolts. It is MUCH more work than 1. With these fillers in, as thecrash91 says, the "track" is recessed into the roof.
i pulled off the crossbars and want to get those caps as mentioned in option 1. what is the part number for them on onlinemazdaparts.com or what are they called so i can search for them elsewhere on google
There are two kinds of filler strips, which are you talking about?
2. You remove the rack and everything else above the roof metal. It is replaced by one long strip on each side. Once this is done the rack has no place to mount. To do this the liner has to be pulled off the ceiling to provide access to the mounting bolts. It is MUCH more work than 1. With these fillers in, as thecrash91 says, the "track" is recessed into the roof.
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These filler strips are what I want. That yellow P5 in the remove your roof rack how-to looks so much better without it and I've been thinking about it recently. Seeing a couple WTB's and stuff on the for sale board made me decide to go with it. Now I just need to get it going.
i doubt your going to sell the rack anytime soon, i've had mine up for about 5 months. the strips do not sit flush at all, they go down about .5-1cm i wasn't too happy at first but from about ten feet away its not noticeable and i don't really care anymore. it does make the car look sharper by a helluva lot., good investment it cost me about 140 for the strips and clips brand new from onlinemazdaparts
mine has the filler strips
These are probably the only pics i have of that show enough of them
is the purpose of the rack rail caps main purpose for appearance? i pulled mine off for testing mpg differences and didnt know if its fine to just have the cross bars up. i.e. will i have any issues with water getting into the car if there is no cap on the rails?