Thule Ranger 340L Softbox Roof Box

I was looking for a roof box for a family holiday, but was struggling to work out where we'd store a massive great hard roof box (the shed was the likely contender, but not ideal)

Stumbled across the Thule Ranger 340L softbox and it answered all our questions.

It was big enough for our needs (roughly doubles my boot space), stores down into a large bag - excellent, I can hide that somewhere in the spare room wardrobe, looks good and is very sturdy and waterproof. Brilliant.

It was easy to set up, easy to fold down (I thought it might be one of these items that arrives nicely packed in its bag, but you need an industrial pressing machine to get it back in - but no, it goes back into its original bag without too much problem).

It rained a bit when we used it and everything was very dry. If it had downpoured I do not know what would have happened, but the construction looks very good and very waterproof.

I think you'd struggle to fill exactly 340L's though as you have to keep checking you haven't overfilled it - if you have overfilled it obviously the zip wont work (and you dont want to be forcing the zip too much, just in case you break it) - so whilst it has a 340L capacity Id say realistically you'll use about 200-250L unless you are very meticulous about how you pack it.

We used the Thule holdalls that we bought separately - which were pretty good. We had some spare space at the top of the roof box, so could have jammed more stuff in there if we'd wanted to.

It didnt take a PHP in automative construction to put it on the roof rack either, took about 10 mins to master it then takes no more than 5 mins to put it on and off each time (realistically more like 2 mins).

Vehicle noise was almost unnoticeable when driving (there was actually just as much noise driving with the roof bars on without the roof box to be honest).

Can't really comment on aerodynamics as I didnt test it in a wind tunnel, but it looks pretty good with the naked eye.

It is a bit pricey for essentially a bag to stick on your roof (I paid about £150 after finding some discount codes) but I think you get what you pay for here.

Highly recommend this to anyone with my issue of storage of a hard roofbox