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Heavy-duty crossbars mount to Yakima towers to create an aftermarket roof rack. Top and bottom channels let you add channel-mount accessories. Tie-down points in endcaps let you easily secure cargo.
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Yakima HD Crossbars - 55" Long - 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 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 (225 Customer Reviews)
Heavy-duty crossbars mount to Yakima towers to create an aftermarket roof rack. Top and bottom channels let you add channel-mount accessories. Tie-down points in endcaps let you easily secure cargo.
Works perfect for our SUP with the tie down loops. Great for building materials as well. Looks great as well.
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!!
I ordered the Yakima roof rack for a 2019 Hyundai Ioniq. I went with the heavy duty one for extra strength but it is quite a bit thicker, likely increasing wind noise. So I might have chosen the aerodynamic lighter weight one if I was to do it again. Also, I needed to get larger bolts for my kayak holder to get around the crossbar. The instructions and video on website were very helpful but they did not explain well how to adjust the toe and pitch. For the toe adjustment, you have to push the metal post with the tool before tightening. That was not obvious. For the pitch, it helped to do that once the towers are attached to crossbar. Then you can tilt tower while cross bar is laying flat (upside down). I ended up having to add tilt on both front and back crossbars for them to be flat when installed. Website said only front one would need to be pitched. I am very pleased with the look and sturdiness of the product. My Hyundai Dealer had zero options for this car.
etrailer was a great place to order, quick and easy. Yakima products however are over priced and overly complicated.
Follow the instructions, and you can't go wrong on the self installation
You sold me used equipment at new prices. What a rip off. Your company is a joke! No worries, you’ll not have to worry about screwing up another order for me in the future. I’ve learned my lesson not to deal with your customer service.
These adapters were easy to install and made my system fit together nicely.
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.
The customer service in ordering theses par tea was amazing!! I spoke with a wonderful specialist named Kate F, and she was super helpful and patient answering all my questions and helping me make sure I had the correct parts I needed for my type of car. The bars are very sturdy and have proven very worth the money!!
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.
I had a difficult time identifying whether these were the correct adapters for the rack towers that I was purchasing to fit my tracks but that has more to do with yakima doing everything a-la-cart instead of having kits that include everything you need if I hadn't already had the HD bars on my other rack and wanted to be able to transfer them to this rack I probably wouldn't have went to this expense because I think they are overpriced.AS far as etrailer is concerned I always receive great service and products and they are always well packaged and never damaged by poor delivery care and always fast delivery speed.
Your service is nothing short of excellent! Thank you
Great product and even better was the service with etrailer! These guys make it happen and delivery was super fast. Thanks for a fantastic experience, will be a return customer.
Yakima HD bars 60”
2018 Ford Expedition
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
The Yakima products are doing great. Just got home yesterday from a 18 day trip using them in Michigan's upper peninsula. Love them. Great products. Thanks again.
Easily supports the RoofNest! The Customer Service with Roger was Excellent!
Required for Yakima HD crossbars using timberland tower system.
Great company. Fast delivery.
They fit perfectlly and solidly on my 2021 Toyota Highlander. The instructions are clear and entirely accurate.
Roof rack parts were ordered correctly and shipped quickly.
The roof rack works well. The only problem I have is noise and while I'm carrying a ladder there is none. I figured if I take the ladder off I'll split a piece of pvc pipe and mount that on the front of it. But they work well for what I needed for work. The service from etrailer was excellant. I dealt with Carol and she did a very good job in helping me.
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