If finding a place to store all of your belongings at home isn’t problem enough, here comes your car with even less available space to squeeze things into. Whether you’re traveling across the country with everyone’s two weeks’ worth of luggage, moving a child into college, or simply hauling along someone’s stuff across town for him or her, finding extra car storage space is essential. And if you can’t fit everything you need inside the car, you’ll just have to think outside the box… or outside the car.

 

Roof racks enable drivers to load up plenty of extra luggage into an outside compartment that sits on the roof of the car. Properly secured, aftermarket roof racks are safe to drive long distances with and they should stay sealed from the rain and other weather types. Roof racks are most commonly found on SUVs and other large vehicles, but many times they can be adapted for use on compact cars too, so if you really need that extra space, you should be able to find a roof rack you can work with.