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Has anybody mounted their own roof racks? Are, or do, the standard mounting points appear to be really strong? And, do you think I could get additional mounting points from Ford and install them myself so I could shore up and add stability to a roof rack that needs 6 mounting holes?

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Yes the mountings seem to be strong.

Somewhere there is a spec on how much weight you can put up there

For me, I used stainless steel 8mm button head bolts plus, from McMaster I bought 1.5 inch width x 1/8" thick long piece of Teflon to place between the mounting post and the car body. The rack people just gave some foam rubber that would be sure to deteriorate

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If you take a look, the mountings seem to be placed on some framing. Observe the headliner and see how the headliner sort of bulges underneath the mountings... that is the frame. While some rack vendors will have a third rack to be mounted, which requires holes to be drilled I don't think that is as strong as the OEM mountings

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