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Is this a complete disaster? We are seriously considering a camper conversion and there are a lot more base panel vans around with barn doors. As it'll be a camper bikes will be on the outside so a tow bar mounted rack seems like the obvious choice. Is this a bad combo? I'm fairly sure the Thule carrier tips down allowing access to a tailgate but I suspect the barn doors would be totally inaccessible with bikes aboard?
T5 owner here with barn doors and a towbar.
Currently have an Atera DL3 rack which does tilt but not all the way to allow the doors to open completely. No big deal - everything is accessible from inside the van anyway and the doors open enough to get stuff out. That said, i think the newer DL3 has a curved kind of rail which slides waaaay out the way and allows the doors to be fully opened.
Don't let barn doors put you off...
I recently bought one of these for the back of our Espace, it obviously has a huge tailgate. Works really well.
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Great info thanks. Barn doors are back on the menu then. I just need to find a lightly used, high spec panel van that's highly depreciated. 😉