Customer Reviews

Inno MV276 Magnetic Ski and Snowboard Carrier

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I had used one of these racks when I rented a care in Salt Lake City going to Park City to ski. I had preordered a ski rack, but when I picked up the car no rack. I complained to the rental clerk who said, "no problem" and called someone to install a rack. I figured this would take awhile and was annoyed, but I went out to the car 5 mins later and there were these two magnetic racks that worked perfectly for the trip. Finally I bought my own for my new Infinity EX35 for which there is no aftermarket bolt on rack, went to Mammoth from LA with my skis and poles on top with no problems. The racks even have locks which help prevent them from being removed with skis in them and they take about 30 secs to mount on the car. If you only need to transport skis and poles and not bikes, kayaks, nuclear weapons, etc. these are perfect.

A major problem with this rack is that it won't fit skis wider than 3 ½" (89 mm) at the mounting point. As the bindings must be placed between the racks, this means that the width of the skis in front of the front binding and behind the rear binding must be less than that size. In my experience, that eliminates ¾ of modern alpine or tele skis.
XC skis would work fine, as would (1) snowboard.
Other than this major concern, the magnets seem to hold securely & rack is of good construction. I do have concerns on the longevity of the plastic, especially in cold weather - it does not appear to be fiber-reinforced.

Received my Inno Ski rack yesterday. It took me a few minutes to read the instruction. 30 second to install it on my car. One minute to slide my ski's into the rack and lock them in. Simple, simple, simple. This rack is perfect for me and so easy. I always needed to go skiing with a a girl friend that had an SUV that could fit our ski's. With this ski rack I don't have to worry about that any longer, I can go myself any time. You must have a flat roof with no sunroofs or grid lines. Great idea, great design for us non SUV owners. Very glad I invested in this ski rack. Originally I was looking to buy a used rack due to budget but was never sure how all the straps worked and was confused on installation and would it fit my car. The Inno took all the guess work out of how to attach the rack to my car. First I road around with my old pair of ski's & pole just to make sure this thing worked. It is totally solid. I highly recommend this rack.

This is an incredibly cool product. I was looking for an inexpensive rack for my car, and stumbled across this one. It attaches very easily to the car, and assuming you read the instructions, it is very easy to remove as well. Certainly much easier than any other rack out there. The magnetic base holds quite strongly to the car roof. I had no concerns about highway speed. Putting skis in is nor harder than other racks I've used. Also, I didn't hear any particular wind noise coming from the rack

The only downside is that it only carries 2 pairs of skis. The base is too large to safely have 2 sets on top of a car.

To store the rack, you just stick the magnets together with a sheet of plastic inbetween that they provide then put the whole thing in a bag. Forgetting the plastic WILL make it difficult to pull them apart (imagine how I found out :-)

This product appears to be well designed. However, when you get it you find that there are numerous (21 to be exact) warnings and cautions not mentioned online. Some are obvious but others severely limit its use. Max speed (55 mph on the box, 65 mph in the instructions)and cannot be used with sun roof are two biggies. I returned the item without trying it because of all the limitations

I was skeptical but it seems to hold up great. Not to mention so easy to put on or take off. Great buy!