[artsound]

Just bought a focus zxw. I like having a roof rack to carry stuff. I saw Ford pricing of 160-180$ per crossbar so decided to go cheap.
Junkyard visit produced 3 toyota seinna minivan crossbars for 30$. They looked like they might be adaptable.
Turns out they needed some mods
First neede to cut about 3" from each side of
here 3 cut down crossbars
crossbars

cut extrusion

then had to mod crossbar ends

turns into

 

[artsound]

assembled crossbar and end

still have a little fine tuning to do (no closeups yet).
But here is almost finished product

still need to shorten them a hair, and put the third one on
but 30$ and 2 hours of work--maybe another hour to get them perfect[]
I am cheap cheap cheap[clap]

 

[artsound]

made some final adjustments and added third crossbar

 

[sailor]

Good writeup on making similar pieces work on the cheap.

Well done.

 

[focus_wagon05]

Good job