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This aerodynamic, flush-mount roof rack lets you carry gear and cargo on your vehicle while maintaining a clean, factory look. Crossbars work with channel-mount and clamp-on accessories. Installs on your vehicle's naked roof.
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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: 4.7 out of 5 stars (26 Customer Reviews)
This aerodynamic, flush-mount roof rack lets you carry gear and cargo on your vehicle while maintaining a clean, factory look. Crossbars work with channel-mount and clamp-on accessories. Installs on your vehicle's naked roof.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.
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These parts are exactly what we needed as part of our roofrack kit purchased from etrailer. The website made it easy to search and find exactly the right product for our particular needs - mounting a rooftop tent onto a 2018 Chevy Cruze "naked" roof. We called for assistance and received excellent information to get our camping season started.
Very solid roof rack solution but the wind noise is mind-numbing. Ugh.
Great customer service, definitely order from etrailer again.
Hyundai Sonata - glass pano roof. These items have been on for about 1-year. So happy with the set up. I’ve take a road bike and a mountain bike on 500+ mile trips. The mounts do an excellent job.
the product is excellent. very good quality material. the measurement given for my 2016 wrx are not exactly what they should be.
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I purchased clips that were stated as being compatible with our 2010 Chevrolet Impala. The front clips fit well, however the rear clips do not.
From start to finish, the folks at etrailer -- and I spoke to several people there, so it was a consistent corporate vibe -- were fantastic to deal with.
There were delays in getting my product that were on the supplier side and out of eTrailer's control, yet etrailer folks kept me up to date and also worked on a customized solution.
My goal was to be able to carry my surfboard on the roof of our 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe to the beach more than 3 hours away. But the particular model we had had no existing racks, no recessed areas, nothing to fix racks to. Not even the dealer had a solution. I was sh*t out of luck.
But etrailer hooked me up. The racks did take me a while to put on, but most of that time was fine tuning to reduce “hum” while driving. I’m very happy with them.
Thanks to etrailer, I have gone surfing and can go surfing whenever I'd like to.
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