ADVANCED ACCESSORY SYSTEMS, AAS CAPITAL AND ADVANCED ACCESSORY
          HOLDINGS ANNOUNCE EXTENSION OF THE EXPIRATION TIME FOR TENDER
        OFFERS FOR 10 3/4% SENIOR NOTES AND 13 1/4% SENIOR DISCOUNT NOTES

          STERLING HEIGHTS, MICH., August 10, 2006 - Advanced Accessory Systems,
LLC ("AAS"), AAS Capital Corporation ("AAS Capital") and Advanced Accessory
Holdings Corporation ("Holdings" and together with AAS and AAS Capital, the
"Companies") announced today that, in connection with the previously announced
tender offers to purchase any and all of the 10 3/4% Senior Notes due 2011 of
AAS and AAS Capital (the "Senior Notes") and 13 1/4% Senior Discount Notes due
2011 of Holdings (the "Discount Notes"), the Companies are extending the
Expiration Time of the tender offers until 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on
August 31, 2006, unless further extended. Holders who have already tendered
their notes do not have to re-tender their notes or take any other action as a
result of the extension.

As previously announced, the Companies obtained consents by the holders of a
majority of the outstanding Senior Notes and Discount Notes, respectively, prior
to the applicable Consent Payment Deadline. The Consent Payment Deadline
relating to the Discount Notes expired June 16, 2006, at 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, and the Consent Payment Deadline relating to the Senior Notes expired
June 30, 2006, at 5:00 p.m., New York City time.

The Companies' obligation to purchase notes that have been tendered and
consummate the tender offers remains conditioned on the completion of the
previously announced acquisition of certain of the assets and businesses of AAS
by Thule AB (the "Acquisition"). The Companies anticipate that the conditions to
the Acquisition will have been satisfied on or about August 30, 2006 and that
the Acquisition will be consummated on or about August 31, 2006. However, there
can be no assurance that the Acquisition will be consummated at that time, that
circumstances do not arise that cause a further delay or that other conditions
to the closing are not satisfied.

Except as set forth above and as amended by press releases previously issued by
the Companies, all other provisions of the tender offers and consent
solicitations with respect to the Senior Notes and the Discount Notes as set
forth in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statements of the
Companies remain in full force and effect.

The tender offers and consent solicitations are made solely on the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth in the respective Offer to Purchase and
Consent Solicitation Statements of the Companies, as amended. Under no
circumstances shall this press release constitute an offer to buy or the
solicitation of an offer to sell the Senior Notes or the Discount Notes. It also
is not a solicitation of consents to the proposed amendments to either of the
indentures governing the Senior Notes and Discount Notes, respectively.