Patent ID: 8496147

Claim:
A roof rack system for a motor vehicle comprising: a roof rack having an attaching device for location on the roof of the vehicle, the attaching device including: at least one mounting bolt for passing through a roof opening; a retaining element having the form of a slot nut for insertion in a locating groove of the at least one roof rack; a seal extending around the mounting bolt and for resting on the roof and surrounding the roof opening when the roof rack is installed; and a thin, metal carrier plate having a bolt opening through which the mounting bolt passes, the carrier plate located on the mounting bolt not axially displaceable or axially displaceable only in a displacement zone due to at least one thickening in a cross section of the mounting bolt, an underside of the carrier plate abutting the seal, an upper side of the thin, metal carrier plate abutting the roof rack, the seal bonded to the carrier plate; wherein when the mounting bolt is in an attached state on the roof rack, a portion of an upper side of the carrier plate abuts an underside of the roof rack, and an underside of a waist of the slot nut rests against a corresponding area of the upper side of the carrier plate.