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Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.
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Yakima JetStream Crossbars - 50" Long - Silver - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2013 Chevrolet Cruise, we're going to be doing a test fit of our Yakima Jet Stream roof rack system. That's going to consist of our 50 inch black Yakima Jet Stream crossbars and that's part number Y00425. They also come in silver, which is part number Y00428. It's also going to consist of our baseline towers, part number Y00146 and our base clip fit kits, part numbers Y06137 and Y06127.This Yakima roof rack system is going to allow you to carry many different types of roof mounted accessories, such as bike racks or cargo boxes. They feature and aerodynamic design, which is going to make them far quieter than our traditional round or square bars.It's going to work with your clamp on accessories. It's also going to accommodate your T squad accessories.
While other cross bars require you to trim and remove a section of your strip here, the nice thing about these is you can simply push down and slide in your T-bar accessories.Our cross bars are held in place by four baseline towers. Each tower has a foot pad that's going to protect our roof from any sort of damage. And it also features a cover to protect our hardware. The kit includes four clamps that are specially designed for our Cruise that are going to hold our cross bars in place. They feature a rubber pad so there's not going to be any damage to our frame.Now if you'd like to add increased security, you can buy Yakima cores for our locks, and that's part number Y07204.
This roof rack features a weight capacity of 165 pounds but you will want to check your owner's manual to make sure your roof can sustain that sort of weight.Now that we've gone over a few of the features, let's go ahead and look at how to install it. So we have our front bar installed already. After assembly, per our instructions, we measured from the top of our windshield to the front of our foot pad. We did that on both sides and then we went ahead and tightened it down.With our front bar installed, let's go ahead and look at how to install our rear bar. We already have one of our baseline towers installed on our jet stream cross bar, so I'm going to go ahead and show you how to install the other one.
We're going to flip that over and we're going to take our baseline tower and our first step is to insert our plastic adapter into the slot there.Once we get it lined up, we can click it in place. And then we're going to take our metal T-bracket there. One thing I do want to show you, this little window is covered up right now, so we're going to have to go to the back and pull out on this tab here, and that's going to open the window for us to insert our tool and tighten that down. We want to get it flush with the plastic adapter so that we can slide it onto our cross bar.There's a scale printed on our cross bar here, so we're going to go ahead and move to the correct measurement, and you can find that in your instructions.Next, we want to install our footpad, so there is a notch in our footpad that will line up with our bar on our foot. And then we'll simply click in place.
Next we're going to install our footpad on our foot piece. So as you can see, there's a little notch in the back here that's going to line up with our bar, so we're just going to go ahead and insert that in place.Now, this next part is a little bit confusing so I want to explain. The front of our bar is going to be the fatter part, that's kind of rounded. So all of our measurements are going to be based off of that. On the inside here, you'll see we have our pitch adjustment and our toe adjustment. That's just going to determine how straight our footpad is, and the level of our crossbars. So we want our toe adjustment to be centered here. We're going to go ahead and start tightening that down.And then our pitch is going to be pushed over so that our inside nut is the farthest away from the front of our bar possible. I'll go ahead and tighten that down. Now our tool is going to let us know when everything is properly tightened by clicking in place. And there we have it. Now that we have our baseline tower set, all we have to do is put on our end cap here, close that little door that we opened earlier, and set it in place.Now I'm just going to put this in the general vicinity and we can make adjustments here in a moment. Now that we have our roof rack on our roof, we want to make sure and measure to ensure our crossbar spread is where it should be. You can find that measurement in your instructions. And you want to measure from the same place on both, so either from the front or from the center or the rear, just make sure it's the same. And you want to do that on both sides.So now with our crossbar in the correct position, we want to make sure that our footpad is seated properly in our track there. And then we're ready to open our little plastic door there and open our vehicle door and insert our clip. Now you want to make sure that you have the correct clip, they are different on the front and the back. We're going to go underneath this middle portion to make sure that it bites in. So as you can see, our clip is not flush with our vehicle. There's some space in there, so we're going to go ahead and turn our bolt up here until it makes contact and then we're going to be able to go ahead and start tightening it down. You don't want to tighten it too far because you do want to make it equal on both sides.Now that we've got it pretty close to being even on both sides, we're going to use that included tool and tighten it down and listen for those clicks. Then all we have to do is close our little plastic piece here and then mount our cover. Gonna go ahead and do that on the other side as well.With it installed, we're now ready to load up any of our favorite roof mounted accessories and hit the road. And that's going to do it for our test fit of our Yakima jet stream roof rack system on our 2013 Chevrolet Cruise.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (145 Customer Reviews)
Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.Excellent solution for my 2023 Chevy Silverado. In the past, I have had rails installed on the roof of my pickup trucks, but I find the BaseLine towers to be a better solution, since they don't permanently change the truck. Plus, they are much more solid than SkyLine system on the rails.
Love my Yakima roof rack!! It exceeds my expectations.great product. Also thank etrailer for the tec support! great staff always there to help thanks again!!
Follow the instructions, and you can't go wrong on the self installation
Yakima Baseline with Yakima CBX 18 Cargo Box fitted on my 2012 Toyota Corolla S Sedan 2012.
Instructions were clear and roof rack was easily installed.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
Your notice of schemes was a lot better than the yakima site provided. They did not suggest the scheme you did.
But when the products arrived, the instructions were by yakima. Generally worked as instructed except the tower to tower transverse mounting dimensions needed to be tweaked for a perfect fit.
You guys provide great products and excellent customer service.
Thanks
Ackage came 2 days early the install was somewhat easy (did it by myself)
Did not get to mount anything to it but seems really sturdy. One thing I can say is mark out your mounting points with provided stickers then put up and make adjustments to the roof rack.
The 50” jetstream cross bars were perfect for my 2019 Ford Ranger with my ARE cap. They are paired with the Yakima Skyline towers and appropriate landing pads (protip: call etrailer when you order to ensure you have the correct setup;)
These cross bars are SILENT on my cap. Zero wind noise. My daughter and I installed them on a Friday (I do recommend watching etrailer’s installation video in addition to the paper instructions) and left for a 700 mile weekend road trip the next day to pick up a kayak, paddle with friends downstate then drop her off at summer camp.
Even with empty Yakima Jaylows on top, no wind noise. Even with a boat in the Jaylows, no wind noise.
These are the sweetest rack’s I’ve had. With the Skyline towers and landing pads, they are also easy to take off and put on. Click click done.
They look good, too;)
etrailer customer service for the win, too. When I originally ordered, I did not order all the items I needed for installation. When I realized this, I called and they got me squared away.
I’m using these towers in conjunction with the JetStream cross bars. Assembly and setup was easy, all the tools you need are provided, except perhaps a tape measure for mounting. Looks and feels solid and well made. This is my second set of Yakima towers and cross bars. I plan to use this setup for an old roof top hard shell case and for my mountain bike to get to the trail head.
After completing the installation I took it out for a spin to check for wind noise at highway speeds. No discernible noise, I’m very happy about that as I really don’t want to remove these when not needed. For reference these are mounted on a 2019 Subaru Forester Touring with factory raised rails. Plenty of clearance for attaching equipment and gear.
Side note: the gentleman that assisted me on the phone while ordering was very pleasant and helpful, got me the right products very quickly as I was in a time crunch. Two thumbs up!
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
So far so good. Purchased these towers to use on a 2022 GMC Canyon with HD bars that I already had, primarily to carry my canoe. Yakima's fitting instructions worked perfectly and the whole system seems really solid.
Well packaged and on time
Great product - very good quality. I liked the fact that I could keep the risers mounted on my car, but could remove the cross bars. It took me awhile to install - but I'm not very mechanically inclined.
etrailer installation videos were very helpful in selecting the product and first installation, although in practice, minor adjustments to method were required. Now after more than a dozen set ups, mounting the crossbars takes 15 minutes, and taking them off, 10. The system is well made, and when mounted, precise, strong, and reliable. Expensive perhaps compared to alternatives, but well worth the money. Used to carry a 50# sailboard 40 miles to the beach on weekends. ('11 Honda Fit)
One minor shortcoming: rubber sheet glued to base clips where they touch the car body have torn and moved sideways 1/16", but expect will be easily replaced with readily available 1/16" sheet rubber (e.g., shower pan liner) when the time comes.
Used in rain at least once, (sustained 60mph), with no leaks.
Good condition quality. Good and detailed instructions but aittle tedious install.
I needed crossbars for my new 2018 Mazda CX5, which came with flush side rails. The Yakima crossbars, along with the RidgeLine Towers and the the vehicle specific kit worked great. The installation (10-15 min) is super easy. They look cool, and performed great (I strapped 160-lbs rooftop tent on them!). Removing them is also super easy (10 min tops). Highly recommend.
Roof rack parts were ordered correctly and shipped quickly.
I choose etrailer simply because they mailed to APO. I’m a AD SM, and a lot of companies don’t shop to APO. As soon as I ordered my product, I received an email as a courtesy from etrailer letting me know I had an individual that would be tracking my product every step of the way, reassuring a smooth process. Their site functionality was easy, their customer service was great. I wanted to know if they had bike racks that would fit my cross bars, I got a email right away with a suggestion and a link that would fit my needs. I’ll definitely order from etrailer if I ever need to again.
Because of the 'rona-induced supply chain interruptions, I was unable to purchase all of my Yakima components from etrailer, but I did get these, and they are typically excellent Yakima components. Well-made, easy to install, good directions, no problems.
I chose the Yakima roof rack, because It spanned 50 inches, rather than the leading competitor's 47 inches, making it better for tying down 4 ft x 8 ft sheets of building material. It also seemed to be about half the price. It took me about 2 hours to put it all together and mount it on my car. The instructions were all visual and there was one little pic I didn't understand, but the equipment seemed to go together correctly anyway. Now that it's adjusted, it should be fairly easy to remove and replace next time. I did need to put on super tacky gloves to get the covers off. Although it seemed unnecessarily complicated, I would still choose this product again.
Yakima Jetstream cross bars.. nice bars worth the extra money. can be adjusted for pitch/angle of attack to "tune" the air profile.. mine have absolutely no high speed wind noise or whistling.. rubber weather strip underneath further smoothes the bar profile.. quietest roof rack system I have ever owned..
Great product fast shipping
Great! Easy to install!
I have a Buick Envision and it seemed as if it would be difficult to get the correct rack, but it turned out to be easy. I entered my vehicle info and was directed to the Yakima Skyline with flush rails. It was easy to install and they look great. I will be able to take my canoe out with no problem! Joe
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