My Husband is a researcher, it does not matter what it is he researches everything before he buys anything. He read all the reviews and short of putting a hitch on the back of my 2006 Honda Accord (which is what we bought today)he thought this was the best product for the money. The first thing we discovered was that this bike rack does not work well at all with a spoiler. We put the top of the rack below the spoiler at first and it came loose after 10 mins on the road, so we decided to put it above the spoiler, which did not work out well either but did hold. When we returned home and took the bike rack off I have 3 pea sized chips of paint scraped off the back of my car. I will highly upset about that. This happened on the bottom part where the pads are suppose to prevent that from happening. I would not recommend anyone buy this product unless they want to touch up the paint on their car.