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These multipurpose, galvanized steel crossbars supply the backbone for your aftermarket roof rack system. Works with accessories that clamp around the bars. Pair with Yakima towers, fit kit, and RoundBar SL Adapter to create a complete roof rack.
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Yakima RoundBars - 48" 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: 4.7 out of 5 stars (275 Customer Reviews)
These multipurpose, galvanized steel crossbars supply the backbone for your aftermarket roof rack system. Works with accessories that clamp around the bars. Pair with Yakima towers, fit kit, and RoundBar SL Adapter to create a complete roof rack.Kimberly has shown that great customer service is not dead! etrailer and Kimberly are great to work with and have earned my business and will always be the 1st and last place I look for my rack+ needs!
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Everything from etrailer is timely and of good quality! The Yakima crossbars are no exception - they are indestructible.
Works perfectly. I am always impressed that Yakima continues to make parts for the "old roundbars" since they have since moved on to the superior JetStream bars.
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!!
Excellent selection of rack parts. Very useful installation videos help when choosing between products. Easy ordering process. Quick delivery.
I ordered the Yakima roof rack, with the Hullyrollers for the back crossbar and the Mako saddles for the front crossbar to use with my kayak. It arrived just like they told me and I put them on my car the eveningit arrived. Got to finlly use the roof rack on June 22 to go out kayaking and it worked great. Only thing is I did not know about the air reflector piece for the front crossbar. Now I will be ordering it to help with the wind noise.
Great rack, go on fast, easy to install and work well on my VW TDI wagon. Care has to be given and follow the instructions for the install to what type of rails you have. Works great carrying the VW luggage carrier and plan on using it to carry kayaks as well. Just have not decided what kayak rack type to get yet.
I've attachec a few pictures of the Yakima rack on my Audi Q7. It took a few attempts to find the right combination of attachments, but in the end, the pin attachments work best with the access points on the factory flush-mount rails. Great product!!!!!
roof racks showed up in great condition, and showed up as one package.... I should have ordered the J racks from here but I found them cheaper locally so Thule J racks compliment the whole setup and i am just about ready to hit the water :)
necessary for using the widest cross bar option (78"). East to install
The installation of this rack system went very well, all of the instructions were easy to read and use. I have attached some pictures of our installation. The vehicle is a 1994 Honda Accord EX four door sedan
Roof Rack 2008 Saturn Astra The roof rack arrived one day early...The packaging was excellent and the quality of the product more than met my expectations. The instructions made the insulation very easy. It took less than 45 minutes to install the unit complete.
One quick phone call and Gwendolyn figured out exactly what I needed for our new car to use my old Yakima rack.
The rack has been so useful since I purchased it. Staff at etrailer.com were exceptionally helpful in getting the best option for my car and answering questions. I recommend this company, for its 110% customer service, excellent prices and timely delivery.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
Great products though, again, written instructions would have been nice.
Everything arrived as promised and earlier than expected just installed. Looks like it will do everything I need it to which is haul around paddleboards. So far so good!
Great product and very easy to install! I called in to put my order in due to not trusting myself in getting one that fits my car. Jessica W. Was beyond professional and helpful in the process. She went also well above her position and tracked my order and sent additional information. Couldn’t be happier with the product and customer service!
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.
We got a Yakima Roof Rack system with locks and fairing for a "lime squeeze metallic" (Green...) 2011 Ford Fiesta 5dr Hatchback. Received the package yesterday and set it up within about an hour.
I have been using Yakima racks for around 40 years and have never had any problems. However, I am amazed at the price increases over the years. Etrailer prices were by far lower than most. Overall, a very excellent purchase.
The Yakima roof rack system is an Outstanding product. I purchased the product to replace the OEM roof rack because it was too flimsy to carry the tandem bike mount and my bike. The Yakima roof rack is solid and provides me the peace of mind while hauling my bike on the roof of my car. etrailer provided the product for the best price as always.
Kit worked perfectly on my 2021 Subaru Forester. The whole install took 30 minutes. Never been disappointed with etrailer.
Have been rocking my Yakima rack from etrailer.com for a year now. I am using rack in conjunction with a Tepui tent. Once I added the air deflector, I would say it's the perfect setup. The Yakima gives more clearance over the factory rack, so I was able to get my hands under it to secure the tent hardware. If you're thinking of upgrading your factory rack, I would not hesitate to use etrailer.com
Bought as a pkg for my 2017 Golf R with Round Bars since I had a bunch of Yakima bike racks and a canoe gunwale rack for my old Yakima set up. Installation was easy with good instructions. All measurements from the Yakima site appear to be spot on.
etrailer.com shipped these out quickly and all parts arrived without damage.
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