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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 - 58" Long - Black - Qty 2: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 (295 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!
As for the application, I needed more space to fit my cargo box on top of my 4Runner TRD Pro’s rack. I came up this this… Thank you!
Free delivery that showed up in 3 days!!! Can't beat it. The crossbars with the Control Towers and LandingPad 9 fit perfectly on my Honda Element. Had them installed in about 30 mins. Don't have my cargo box yet and wanted to test strength, so I had my 110lb wife standing on them with no issues (yes, the car was parked). Plan to take a long camping trip next week with a cargo box on top...wife will be in the vehicle:-)
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.
necessary for using the widest cross bar option (78"). East to install
A great company to do business with, and lots of merchandise in stock. I orderd a roof rack for my truck on Tuesday morning and it was on the porch when I returned from work on Thursday. I will deffinitely order more from etrailer.com
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.
One quick phone call and Gwendolyn figured out exactly what I needed for our new car to use my old Yakima rack.
Great fit, holds tight to roof.
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.
Great first experience dealing with you guys! Shipped fast, and was a faster install. You gave me the right parts and it went together in a flash.
Will definitely be doing business with you all again.
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.
Kit worked perfectly on my 2021 Subaru Forester. The whole install took 30 minutes. Never been disappointed with etrailer.
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
Haven’t used them yet but they should work as expected
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.
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.
I'm happy that this allows me to save money by using my old round bars on my new vehicle, with only the purchase of new "towers" and these adapters.
first try was missing what was needed
Etrailer helped. It was great!
E trailer has me me spoiled yet again! If only I could expect this level of service from other suppliers.
Works great to use my round bars on the Skyline towers.
Yakima Crossbars were as you would expect - steel bars coated in a soft black coating (be mindful when you are utilizing these with the top mounts as the clamp will eat through the soft coating when you tighten them down). I had issues with my yakima round bar setup as the brackets and tower system were allowing water to leak in. This is in no way reflective of what youll experience but Yakima has superb support. I spoke with them twice on my issue and out of their kindness they shipped me an entire setup to replace my existing one for free.
Product works as advertised thus far. When you buy the yakima towers, you are required to purchase these as well to fit the rounder bars (I feel sure there are other adapters for other bar shapes). These should have come with the towers in my opinion, and I resented having to shell out more $$ to purchase these "must have" adapters to mount my bars. 3 star overall rating based on function, price. Delivery and packaging was top-notch through etrailer.
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