The 682 Sidekick represents the most petite car cargo box that the Swedish car accessory giant sells. The selling-point of a cargo box is to create space in the interior and trunk of your vehicle by transferring as much of your stuff up onto the roof in a safe, waterproof. So what possible justification can there be to purchase the Thule Sidekick when it provides such small volume as compared to some of the monster-sized cargo boxes produced by Thule?
It is obvious when you think about it, not everyone has a monster-sized car to mount the Sidekick on, not everyone has monster-sized car quantities of stuff to drive around, and not everybody has a huge budget either!
Or look at it like this, the Thule Sidekick is the roof box for you if you own a small to medium-sized car, you don't have more than a couple of hundred green ones or so to spend on a cargo carrier and you are just interested in taking a little more baggage away with you than your car trunk can take.
The Sidekick's pint-sized dimensions, at 54 x 25 x 15.5in, make it just what you need for fitting in your golf clubs, or maybe a few extra bags or suitcases, without weighing down your roof or giving rise to unnecessary wind resistance and excessive fuel guzzling.
It is very light at 16lb and so can usually be installed by one person - ideal if you and do not want to have to ask someone else for lend a hand! The Sidekick may be compact, but it still features that streamlined, recognisable Thule outline that has made the range such a success.
It would not be fair to present the Thule Sidekick and skim over a small number of small niggles: a small number of owners have suggested difficulty in mounting the Sidekick without someone else to help out, and a minority have also suggested that some damp can enter the box in extremely rainy driving conditions. However, in most cases both problems can be easily sorted out with a more careful approach to initial installation.
On balance, a couple of negative reports can do nothing to mar the image of a best-selling small cargo box like the Thule Sidekick. With buyers on one big shopping site giving it an average vote of 4 out of 5, and marks on another major web site topping 4.5 out of 5, it is obvious that you cannot fail to be impressed with the Thule 682 Sidekick on your car.
Author Resource:
The article author is a keen nature fan and traveller and writes on hiking and climbing in what little spare time he has. He thinks he has discovered the biggest reduction on a Thule Sidekick anywhere, on his colleague Mark Pertigraw's site: the Thule 682 , and there is another good article on this roof-box here too .
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