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These heavy-duty, aluminum crossbars work with Rhino-Rack legs to create a sturdy roof rack. The square bars include built-in C-channels for mounting Rhino-Rack heavy-duty, contractor-grade accessories.
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Rhino-Rack HD Crossbars - Black - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Ram 1500 we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System. This is going to consist of the Rhino Rack Vortex Arrow Crossbars, part number RRVA150D-2, the Rhino Rack 2500 Series Legs, part number RRRLKVA, and the Fit Kit for our Ram 1500, part number DK043. Now, keep in mind that our crossbars are also available in silver, part number RRVA150S-2.The Rhino Rack Roof Rack System is a great solution for carrying your vehicle accessories on your roof, whether those are bike racks, ski and snowboard carriers, or kayak carriers. Aerodynamic shape of our bars as well as the weather strip on the inside is going to help to reduce wind noise and drag. If we remove the end cap on our crossbar, we're able to remove the weather strip on the inside of our channel, cut that down, and replace it with channel mounted accessories.Our leg kit does have the option to lock, which will help to prevent theft and tampering of our entire Roof Rack System. You will allow see our Fit Kit here is going to include the clamp, as well as the pad, and any portion that touches our vehicle is going to have a rubber coating to prevent any scratches or abrasions.
The Rhino Rack Roof Rack System has a 165 pound weight capacity, though you do want to double check your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand that much weight. It's also going to come with a limited lifetime warranty, and be quick and easy to install. We'll show you how to do that now.Now, everything that you see on our table is what we'll need to install our Roof Rack System. The only thing we're going to provide ourselves is a flat tape measure. Everything else should be included.
We're going to have our front bar already installed. We'll show you how to do the rest of our back bar. This will include an end cap for our crossbar, our leg, the end caps for our legs, the key to lock down our crossbar end cap, our keys to lock down our leg kit end cap, our included tool to tighten everything down, and then the clamp as well as the pad from our Fit Kit.To start off, we're going to take our Leg Kit as well as our Fit Kit and place them together. We'll remove the bolt from our leg. We can take our clamp and place it over where we just removed our bolts.
We can start to tighten down our bolt once again. We'll flip our Leg kit over, and we're going to remove the bottom piece. Then we'll take the pad, we place that on the bottom. We'll want to make sure that the arrow on our pad, which is right here, is facing forward on our crossbar. Once we have that placed on, we can snap it onto the bottom, and we'll place this onto our crossbar.I like to tighten down my bolt just enough so that it holds my foot pack level and it doesn't bend, but I can still move it.
Now we're going to measure out the placement for our leg. This is going to be 15.7 centimeters. That measured out, we can tighten down this bolt here. That's going to hold our leg in place. We can finish off the assembly with the placement of our crossbar end cap, and locking that into place.We've opened our vehicle doors. We're going to take our Roof Rack System, place it across our vehicle, making sure that our clamps sit around our door frame. Now we'll measure out our crossbar spread from the center of our front bar to the center of our back, and we want 75 centimeters. We'll make sure to do the same thing to the other side. Now we can tighten down our clamp, taking our tool and tightening it down so that our clamp sits just up against our door frame. Now we'll repeat this same process on the other side.We'll tighten down our bolts until the skinnier portion of our torque tool is completely straight, like we have here. Now we can take the end cap for our Leg Kit, we'll lock it into place, and we're ready to load up our accessories and hit the road. That's going to be our completed look at the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System on our 2018 Ram 1500.
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (157 Customer Reviews)
These heavy-duty, aluminum crossbars work with Rhino-Rack legs to create a sturdy roof rack. The square bars include built-in C-channels for mounting Rhino-Rack heavy-duty, contractor-grade accessories.
The rack fit well and was easy to install. Seems to be made well. The problem is the amount of road noise. I never even put the basket on. It was so loud, it roared. I repositioned it several times but the noise was way too much and I finally just removed it. I spent a lot of money for the rack and the basket and now they are in storage. I wish it would have worked out better because I thought it looked really good.
All items ordered were as described wind were easy to install . The shipping was less than stellar . Tforce sat on the items for 3 business days before finally calling . No tracking was provided for tforce till I called in to etrailer questioning why shipment went from ups to T FORCE . Driver from t force claimed he could not get into address location per length of his trailer . Had to meet driver at another address . Came back to original delivery address and fed ex freight was sitting in parking lot just fine ( had same size trailer as TFORCE ) . Tforce Driver was basically being lazy by not coming to original address . Hope etrailer changes shipping companies
Purchased for a Ram 3500 crew cab to transport my kayak while pulling a 5th wheel. Installation was fairly simple as long as you follow instructions. All the parts were correct and it looks good on the truck. The rack system feels robust and I'm sure will do its job as intended. Products arrive 3 days early!
Ok… giving this item four stars as an overall view. The good: it fits a Jeep Wrangler perfectly. With the appropriate legs, it canvases across the entire roof of the Jeep with the legs attaching to the gutters. The bad: just a bit too noisy for my liking, even with the appropriate wind faring (I don’t expect absolute silence since I have a one touch sky top). The noise is not a big deal on short trips, but it was definitely driving my wife and kids nuts on a 2+ hour drive (stick some headphones on the kids, problem fixed)
In the future, I might switch it up from these square rails and go with something a bit more aerodynamic…
Good solid fit and no problem shipping.
All fit perfect on my RAM 2500. Easy to install! All came together perfectly with the crossbars and THULE Kayak holders!
Great product sturdy bars. Keep in mind anything you install on the bars needs to have longer bolts because of how big the bars are but that's a minor detail
Ordered a Rhino Rack for my 2014 GMC Sierra 2500HD Denali. Rack arrived in very good shape and all items were there. Installing at this time and see no problems ahead.
Looks good. Fits good. Loads easy enough. I like the rear load rollers. My truck is tall and I am small. I pull the kayaks up into Thor bed and push them up the rest roller without too much difficulty. I have not traveled with them yet.
Great product...strong , easy to install and remove along with a clean appearance and No damage to vehicle.
These racks where purchased to carry two 9.5 ft kayaks on a Ram truck while towing a Fifth wheel. One year and 15,000 miles since purchasing these racks, with multiple removal /reinstallation's, in addition hauling ladders, paddle boards etc they are still like new.
Very well constructed and seems very solid on the roof. Dodge Ram 3500. Loader will be a big help as well.
Good quality and locks are included. The plastic lock covers are flimsy but they will keep an honest person honest.
carry my old town pdl 120 kayak on my 2014 Ram 3500 Crew cab dually. Heavy kayak. I'm a full time rider and sometimes travel hundreds of miles before stopping. Never had an issue. Front rack had a lot of wind noise but I wrapped paracord around it...problem solved. Worth the money!
I received the roof rack kit sooner then expected. Everything arrived in good condition. The installation instructions where ok and the install went well. This is my 3rd order from etrailer and it will not be the last there customer service is the best I have dealt with in a long time. I have also installed the front receiver hitch the install went well and I am happy with the product
Worked and fit great. Now I just need a fairing to dampen the wind noise.
The Rhino Rack system I purchased did an excellent job mounting up to my Ram 1500. Directions were off it seemed in dimensions for foot placement, but after manually adjusting, they work great and looks great with my roof rack!
Product works as advertised on my 2016 Ram 1500. I used my old cross member and installed it on top of the cab to hold the front end of my tandem kayak. Awesome product.
Very easy to mount. Very good quality.
Got here earlier than it was said!
Thanks SO much!!!
Installed this and 65" Vortex Areo crossbars on a 2015 RAM 5500 chassis cab/crew cab. It is listed to fit 1500 to 3500 RAM's and neither Rhino-Rack or etrailer would confirm it would fit the 5500. My research suggested there was not much, if any difference, between the 3500 and 5500 crew cab, so ordered it any way. Installation was relatively easy, fit seemed to be good and have made multiple 200-300 mile trips with a 75lb kayak. Good price, great customer service and fast delivery through etrailer.
I like the product and makes my truck look nice!!! Very happy with Rhyno-rack.
I bought these to be able to haul 4 kayaks on the roof of my 2017 Ram Mega cab while pulling our fifth wheel. We have use the Rhino Rack several times including a trip from Kentucky to Montana and back with no issues. I highly recommend the Rhino Rack for extra cargo capacity on top of your pickup. The instructions were good and installation was pretty straight forward. I plan to take the system off in the winter which will be easy to do.
This roof rack looks nice and should do the job. It fits my Ram 1500 perfectly.
The instructions included with it are terrible. The measurement for the forward crossbar is WRONG as printed on the directions. After diligently measuring and cutting as per instructions the forward crossbar would not fit properly. After watching the video and a days worth of readjusting and fitting by trial and error the Crossbar fits properly and looks good. A two hour project became a two day project thanks to the instructions! etrailer did a nice job of shipping everything I needed in a timely manner.
The Rhino-Rack was shipped the next day and was received in under 4 days to my door. The E-trailer packaging was sufficient but the OEM packaging on the rails were all beat up and actually one of them appears to have been opened and possibly returned. It was missing the key for the end caps and 2 of the upper rail strips as well as had some nicks and gouges in the rail itself (appeared used).....I would have tried to return for a new one but I needed it the next day so I had to go ahead and use it against my better judgment.
The install was pretty straight forward. The first assembly took me about 30-45 minutes to assemble and mount to the vehicle. The second went much quicker after learning on the first and only took about 15 minutes.
The parts quality is very good. I would say it is on par with Thule and Yakima without question. The rack is very secure when mounted. I have this mounted on a 2015 Ram 2500 (8,300lbs) and was able to rock the entire truck side to side by the rails wit zero movement in the rails or legs.
I have not been able to use the rack yet but purchased it primarily for hauling 2 kayaks when we go RVing. I will give a follow up review after I have used them.
Timely delivery! Just installed the rack and one of the crossbars wasn’t slotted as long as it should have been. Had to trim the spacer 30mm.
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