Colour	Capacity (litres)	Length (cm)	Width (cm)	Height (cm)	No. of Skis
Silver top, black base	310	220 (208 internal)	60 (50 internal)	36 (32 internal)	4

Kamei makes the best quality boxes on the market. Don't just take our word for it! They're a specialist box manufacturer, Quality Assured to ISO 9001, represented in over 40 countries, with numerous Best Buy awards over the years, including the Auto Express 2006 "Best Buy" award for the Delphin 375, one of Kamei's mid market boxes which has identical features to this one. With their innovative and intelligent designs, top quality materials and engineering, and outstanding build quality, it's no surprise that they are Original Equipment box suppliers to several major manufacturers, including Audi, Mercedes-Benz and VW. And Kamei boxes have the longest guarantee of any manufacturer in the car rack systems sector - 6 years!

This box, new to us for 2006, is entirely symmetrical so you can fit it to open either on the left or on the right. It also seems bigger than its stated 310 litres of capacity, thanks to its low profile reinforcing ribs and fittings, and a lid that's an optimum shape for load carrying. Certainly it's amazing how much you can stuff into it!

Kamei makes a virtue of the 'Click' and 'Push button' locking system used in this box: Long boxes with central locking can be awkward to close, especially on taller vehicles, and when stuffed full. You need to hold the box tightly closed at the front, at the middle, and at the rear, and turn the key; this often requires two people. You close this box by pulling down on one end of the box until it clicks shut, then pulling down on the other end, and then pushing the locks in before covering them with a weatherproof flap. Each lock drives a bolt from the lid into the base; this is fundamentally a stronger system than central locking systems can achieve.

• Made from top quality 'DUROKAM', an ABS plastic developed by Kamei to optimise weight, stability and impact resistance.
• Wind tunnel development as well as TÜV and GS (security) testing and approval.
• Stabilus gas struts for wide and easy opening and closing.
• Sliding box to bar fittings so there’s never a need to drill new holes if the distance between your roof bars is non standard.
• This box comes with fittings to accommodate roof bars up to 44mm wide. If you will be using aluminium aerobars, or your roof bars are wider than 44mm, you'll need to purchase one of the alternative adapters listed below.
• 6 year guarantee.
• Holds up to 6 sets of skis.
• Weight 14kg empty, maximum load 50kg, gross loading limit 64kg.

Do you need roof bars as well? If so, check out our amazing box and bars package deal which provides everything you need, including this box, locking Atera or Thule roof bars, and a roof box storage device, all for a fixed price! Click here for more details.

There's also the possibility of using this box as part of a 2 box system, if your vehicle can take the weight and your bars are wide enough, using a second Kamei 300 (see picture 4) or even a Kamei 450.

These boxes arrived here in mid May; we'll take some better pictures when the weather improves!

This season we are offering a free roof box hoist to give you a superb deal. Boxes are bulky items so the ideal place to store them is above your car in the garage, or perhaps in a shed. Many people will leave the box attached to the bars, and also use the box for storage.

If you don't need a box hoist, our alternative gift is a set of 3 Fasty straps - 0.5m, 1.5m and 3.0m. Although of much less financial value they will be useful for 1,001 things, time and again. To order the 3 straps, 'untick' the Free box hoist tick box by clicking in the box, and then tick the Alternative free gift one instead. Please note that these free items are included at 10p for our record keeping purposes only, and that only one box hoist or one set of straps will be included per roof box ordered.