You will need at least a box cutter or blade, a T40 and T30 Torx driver, preferably with a T handle, a small and large flat head screwdriver, and a step to enable you to stand comfortably on the side of your car working on the luggage rack. The shipping for these two parts plus another lightweight and small unrelated part I ordered was $20 total, so this modification costs less than $160 to remove about 10 pounds of unneeded wind-resisting weight from the car. I bought my European roof rails from Patrick Casey at for a low price when his parts department was moving to a new building.ĥ1-13-8-208-775 ROOF MOLDING PRIME-COATED LEFT 1 $69.70ĥ1-13-8-208-776 ROOF MOLDING PRIME-COATED RIGHT 1 $69.70 With the rack and mounting hardware removed, you can either cover those with electrical tape or by some other means, or you can remove them entirely and buy the roof rails designed by BMW for European wagons without a luggage rack, which look very similar to BMW sedan roof rails except they are made for the longer roof of the wagon. The standard luggage rack roof rails have three open rectangular slots where the luggage rack hardware goes through to be screwed to the roof. I removed the luggage rack from my 2005 325iT.
