I recently bought the new Thule Pulse and was shocked to learn that it only opened on one side. That makes it much more difficult to load items into the unit. On top of that, it secures to the vehile by screwing in (4) clamps. Due to the unit only opening on one side, it is VERY difficult to even reach the back clamps. Also, the screw part of the clamps sticks up about 3 inches. That makes it more difficult to store things around the clamps. For instance, I was trying to load golf clubs and I had to put them on top of the screw-in part of the clamp. I was not able to load them into one side and slide them to the other. Of course, without being able to open the other side of the unit, and then rasiing them up onto the clamps, it was very difficult to load the golf clubs into the unit. My neihbor has a Thule that secures with a snap down clamp that does not stick up like the pulse and causes much less interference with the items being loaded.
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