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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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Yakima BaseLine FX LG:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today I'm in a 2018 Chevrolet Malibu. We're going to be test fitting the Yakima core bar roof rack system consisting of part numbers Y00422. These are the Yakima core bar crossbars, 60 inches long.We'll also be using part number Y00146. These are the baseline towers for the Yakima cross bars. Particular for naked roofs.Finally, part number Y06123. This is the base clip fit kit for the Chevrolet Malibu.The Yakima core bar roof rack system is great for carrying a wide variety of accessories on your roof while freeing up space inside your Malibu.
This will carry anything from bike racks to cargo baskets to cargo boxes.The Yakima core bars combine the strength of the round bars, but with aerodynamic shape of the jet stream bars. However, you cannot use T Track accessories with this only wrap around accessories.Moving our end cap here, you can see how easy it is to install in our vehicle, it simply clamps around the door frame of your car.With the clamp itself, it is padded to ensure that the doorframe of your vehicle doesn't get scratched up once this is being installed.Also, on the end cap here, there is a plastic knock out, which you can replace with the Yakima same key system that is sold separately. Not only can you secure it to your roof, but you can also make a key to lock with the accessories that you're hauling.Next, I'd like to give you a couple quick measurements. From the center of the roof to the bottom of the bars, it's going to be about 2-3/4 inches. From the center to the top is going to be about 3-3/4 inches.
Now it's plenty of space in between the roof rack and the roof itself to fit your accessories to tighten them down. However, if you do have a sun roof on your Malibu, I would not recommend using it while the roof rack and the accessories are installed.With both bars combined, it does have a carrying capacity of 220 pounds, which is a lot more than most roof rack systems. However, you do want to check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights.Now we're going to go over some of the features the core bar reflects. I'm just going to show you how it installs. We have our front bar already installed on our vehicle.
We have our rear bar partially assembled on our table.We'll start by taking our metal bracket here and sliding it onto the end. Then also installing our end cap here just to make sure this doesn't slip back off. We'll then take this plastic piece here and push it into the top of our tower. You'll hear a little bit of a snap when you do this. Like that.Then we'll flip our bar upside down.
We'll attach the screw in the center here to this portion of our metal bracket. We'll first take this gray piece, pull it all the way out. That way we can get to the screw underneath. Take our tightening tool, line it up with our bracket and we'll loosely install it for now until we get it measured out.Next, we'll get the angle where our pads going to sit down, too. That's going to be this knob just at this front here. We'll push that to the back. You'll find this in your instructions the way this is supposed to be set.Once that's done, you'll take the included tightening tool and tighten it down until you hear a couple audible clicks.Next, we'll take the pad from our clip kit. That just pushes into place. Then we'll actually measure the space in between our towers to make sure that is the proper measurement from the instructions. I think that looks about right. Then we can tighten it down.But before I do that I would like to point out how we got our first tower in place. We measured from the center of the bar out to that point after taking the measurement that we have and cutting that in half as well. Tighten it down. We'll come back to the bolts and finish tightening that down. That's going to secure our tower to the bar. Now we can set this on the roof of our vehicle.An actual measure from center to center of our bars to get a cross bar spread on both sides as well.We'll loosen up the screw off to the side here. We're just going to lift this portion up so we can place our bracket in there. We'll open up our gray door here at the end, then take our mounting plate here. Push it through. Then we'll open up our door and to put this down into place we'll simply just tighten that bolt and then we'll go to the top of our door frame. Like so. Now we'll repeat that for the driver's side.We'll tighten down our center bolt here on both sides until you hear those audible clicks again. We'll close this up, close up the gray latch there. Repeat this on the driver's side.Take our cap and put it in place. Now we're ready to load up our gear and hit the road.There you have it for the Yakima core bar roof rack system on our 2018 Chevrolet Malibu.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (31 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.
Great fit, holds tight to roof.
The installation was super easy, and despite a long time stuck in shipping the delivery itself was extremely fast, and the package arrived in spotless condition. The manuals were very easy to follow, and the end result is absolutely amazing. They provided a nice, flush finish and hold the racks down tight.
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.
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Relatively easy to install on my VW Golf (etrailer videos are very helpful) and sooooo useful with my Yakima skybox. Not much road noise, so I can leave the rack on even when I am not using it.
antastic company and wonderful service, one of the racks was the wrong size for my car so they were able to help find the right size for my Car. Absolutely great company, with fast shipping and just the products I needed for my Car!. Very helpful, and overall smooth transaction and service. I will order from this company again very soon!. shipping came in a very strong and solid box. I highly recommend buying from them!. 10/10 all the way!.
amazing to have something that fits perfectly. a bit complex to set up the first time and takes a few minutes each time, but works great and definitely worth it!
These work well but were not as easy to put on as I expected. My car is small. I ended up having to increase the distance between the two towers by 1/4" to make them fit but now they seem great!
These fit as advertised and work just fine. The customer support, on the other hand, was outstanding.
Order was as expected, all good here!
fast and correct delivery
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