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These crossbars combine the strength of steel with an aerodynamic shape to create a heavy-duty yet quiet roof rack for your vehicle. Full-length bars maximize cargo carrying capacity and work with most clamp-on accessories.
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Yakima CoreBars - 60" Long - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on our 2019 Chevrolet Suburban, we're gonna be doing a test fit on the Yakima JetStream CrossBar roof rack system. This system is specifically designed to fit your flush-mounted rails on your Suburban. We've already got it in place, as you can see, just to give you a good idea of what it looks like. But it's gonna allow you to carry roof-mounted accessories, things like bike racks, kayak carriers, cargo boxes and much more.It features 60-inch-long aluminum crossbars. You can see how they stretch across the entire roof of our Suburban. So we'll be able to carry a lot more than just one or two accessories.
We can put maybe even three or four bike racks up there if we wanted. Now, these are available in black and silver. If silver is something you're interested in, see etrailer.com, and we can get you set up with that.Now these JetStream crossbars are also very aerodynamic. You can see how they have that shape there. These are gonna be a lot quieter than your traditional round or square bars.
These are gonna work with your standard clamp-on accessories as well as your T-slot accessories. To access that you'll just wanna remove that end cap, and rather than having to remove or trim that rubber strip, all you need to do is press down and slide that T-bolt across to your desired position, and you've got that nice, clean look.Now the crossbars are held in place by four SkyLine towers. These are specifically designed to fit the Yakima landing pads that attach to your flush-mount rails. Now what's unique about this system is, if our roof rack system is not in use, or we wish to take it off, it's easy to do so. We'll open up that cover, and then we can lift them off.
Instead of leaving the landing pad open like that, we can then put on our included cap. That way we've got a nice, clean look, and it protects the inside of our landing pad.To give you a closer look at that landing pad, the bottom is rubber-coated. That way it doesn't harm or scratch that flush-mounted rail. Now it also does use stainless steel hardware, so we don't need to worry about any rust or corrosion to that either.When you're ready to install it, just simply pop off those caps, set it in place, and close up the ends. And then it's nice and solid.
Now if you'd like to add more security, you can pop out the plastic lock core here and add some Yakima metal locking cores. This'll prevent anyone from removing your crossbars from your flush-mounted rails.Now this roof rack system has a weight capacity of 165 pounds. You do, however, wanna check with your Suburban's owner's manual to see if the roof can support that much weight. Now I'm gonna give you some dimensions. This'll give you an idea how much you've added to the roof of your Suburban, and it may help you when clamping on the accessories around the crossbars. But from the top of the roof to the top of the bar is about 4-1/2 inches. From the top of the roof to the underside of the bar is about 3-1/2 inches.Now that we've gone over the features, I'll go ahead and show you how to get it installed. I've already got the front crossbar in place, mounted to my flush-mount rails on the Suburban. The rear one installs the same way. I've got one of my landing pads installed on this side. Let's do the other side together. So you're gonna need the landing pad here, two bolts and the tool. Now we're gonna be mounting our landing pad right here. That way it's even with the opposite side.But I'd like to point out all of the options that we have on top of our Suburban here. We've got this spot here, here and here. You wanna position out your crossbars to where they're gonna work out best with your accessories. Well with that being said, let's go ahead and take out our two screws here. Now they are just plastic. Could use a coin or a flathead screwdriver. What we can do is just kinda start taking that out and then twist it the rest of way out with our fingers. You can see here they're just kind of a pushpin style, and you can either put those in your glove box or throw them away, whatever you'd like to do. Then we can take that landing pad. You wanna be sure that the rubber is lined up with the holes here, and we'll set it in place and line up our holes on our flush-mount rails.Then we can take our included hardware and go ahead and get those started. Another thing you wanna be sure of is that the rubber padding is not bunched up on one side or the other. Make sure it's seated on there properly. Take our included tool and tighten these down evenly. Perfect. Now let's head back down to the cart and assemble our crossbar.So I have one of my SkyLine towers attached here. We'll just need to assemble and slide on the other side. So let's go ahead and do that. We'll start off by grabbing one of the Skyline towers, and we'll need to put on our plastic clip just so it will attach to our adjusting crossbars. Then we'll wanna take our metal T-nut here, put it down over the top, and we wanna turn it over so we can take our included tool and tighten up the bolt here. Now this one we can go ahead and tighten down all the way. Now one unique thing about our tool is that it will click once we've got it properly torqued down. Just like that. Then we can turn it back over and we're ready to slide it onto our JetStream CrossBar.So we wanna be sure and turn it over, and if you haven't removed your end cap yet, go ahead and do that. And all we need to do is slide it onto the channel here. Now sometimes it likes to get bound up with that rubber portion on the other side, so we can just kinda push that in a little bit and push it on the rest of the way. Now we don't need to worry about setting this to an exact position just yet. We can worry about that when we set the whole thing in place on our Suburban. Let's go ahead and replace our end cap. And then we're ready to bring it up to our roof.Now when we set our crossbar in place, we wanna be sure that the rounded portion is facing towards the front of our Suburban. Now we also wanna be sure that our cover here is opened up. By doing so it's going to draw in the two pegs on either side. That way we can set it into our landing pad. So we'll gently rest it down, making sure that those SkyLine towers set right on top of the landing pads. Now you may have to adjust that tower slightly forward or backward to do so, but it just rests down in place.Now the next thing we need to do is adjust our bar overhang. We need to make sure it's the same on each side. So I can already tell I need to go that way a little bit, so what I'm gonna do is pick up on my Skyline tower just a little bit on the inside and give it a good push. I'd say that actually looks pretty close. Now we can take our included tool and tighten down the bolt right in here. And what that's gonna do is it's going to tighten the JetStream CrossBar to our Skyline tower. Now we're gonna be tightening it down until we hear the click within our tool, same as before. From there we can close up that cover, and it's gonna push those two pegs out, locking it in place. Let's go ahead and do the same for the other side.With everything in place I can give it a good shake test. As you can see, I'm shaking the entire Suburban, and it's not going anywhere. You can rest assure your roof rack system and your accessories are gonna be safe. But with everything installed, you're ready to load up your favorite roof-mounted accessory, or accessories, and hit the road.That's gonna complete our look at the Yakima JetStream CrossBar roof rack system on our 2019 Chevrolet Suburban.
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (117 Customer Reviews)
These crossbars combine the strength of steel with an aerodynamic shape to create a heavy-duty yet quiet roof rack for your vehicle. Full-length bars maximize cargo carrying capacity and work with most clamp-on accessories.Fit our Subaru Forester perfectly. Install was a breeze. For the money I wish they came with the core locks.
These crossbars were easy to install and adjust. Be sure to get all the pieces you need. There is no mention of the Landing Pads necessary to use these.
Very nice quality towers. Very heavy duty! They have a cool "snap" on / off mechanism for quick removal and installation.
You guys provide great products and excellent customer service.
Thanks
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 purchased the Yakima Skyline Towers roof rack with the Jet Stream crossbars. Took about 2 hours to install on the naked roof of our Flex. I drilled through the roof strip for the mounting bolts and they fit tighter than the factory rails. Very happy with our choice.
Item was as described and shipping was fast. Overall very satisfied with trailer. Will definitely order my stuff from them
Was skeptical at first because I needed the posts as well for my 2011 Honda Element. The Honda crossbars were not adequately weight rated and is why I opted for Yakima. Couldn't be happier with my choice as this assembly has served me well throughout the year.
Yakima SkyLine Towers are well-designed and well-executed. They easily fit into the Yakima Landing Pads and form a tight fit when closed. And they also fit nicely into the Yakima JetStream Crossbars when following the Yakima instruction manual and various YouTube videos. I did run into a snag at first where I found the rubber seal on one SkyLine Tower getting caught on the JetStream Crossbar track, but after that I was careful not to let that happen with the other towers.
I find the appearance of the Yakima SkyLine Towers to match their level of quality in materials and design.
Perfect. Perfect. Easy to install and high quality. Confident in this product. Excellent instructions. Used with towers of course! Towers and crossbars have demonstrated to be strong and durable with several trips with kayaks.
I ordered the wrong set up for my car, but the excellent customer service specialist set me up and expedited my roof rack that fit perfectly. I highly recommend calling and speaking with the knowledgeable staff about your needs. I'm super happy with the experience overall!
Great company. Fast delivery.
I have not bought car roof racks for decades--back when there were those very useful rain gutters. So I was shocked with the high prices. But what you get today is much more carefully engineered with a complicated construction. This Yakima version even comes with a manual 3.5 mm hex driver which turns out to be a torque wrench too. You use it 16 times, torquing to its limit, in installing the two cross rails on the four towers. Years ago you installed the towers where you wanted them on the rain gutters and adjusted the cross rails by sight. No more. You must go on line to Yakima. You must get the precisely engineered dimensions for your exact vehicle. You even adjust the towers for the roof slope and any toe-in of the roof line. Pay attention to the precise instructions. The result is very solid. I wish that I had more space between the cross rails. There is room for another 6 or 8 inches given where the door openings on my 2019 Toyota Highlander are spaced. But then the rear base clips would be different and that logistics would add yet more to the price. I am confident that I can secure a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood on the cross rails. And I will find my vehicle in the mall parking lot easier with those good looking rails. While I am happy with the end product, I wish the vendors had given more explanation of the fixed dimensions of today's installations. That would have helped make my on-line shopping less frustrating. Part of the problem is that Yakima and Thule do not provide cross rails for my LE Highlander's existing tower bases. And I could not get 60 inch cross rails on any of the versions that fit my LE's bases.
The roof rack has been awesome! It has been really handy to be able to attach our bike rack attachment, kayak bars or traveling cargo carrier. My only complaint is that the end caps fell off somewhere along one of our many adventures and looks a bit disheveled. Other than the appearance it has been very versatile and we love it!
I want to thank the staff at eTrailer for their outstanding support. After my roof rack order got off to a shaky start the customer service staff stepped in and made it right; 100% RIGHT. I cannot thank them, and eTrailer, enough. Regarding the roof rack itself, I have now installed it and can vouch that the installation was a breeze. All parts fit and the instructions were correct. For the record, this is not my first purchase from eTrailer (I've bought hitch items from them before) and it won't be my last. They have ALWAYS given great service, their web site works, their products and descriptions are good, etc., etc. Thank you!
They were more helpful than Yakima identifying the correct part, arrived a day early. Nothing to complain about, great service.
The instructions were different for another set of bars. Was a pain to get right...all the measurements on Yakima were off...I figured it out on my own...should have got Thule or nicer bars ..end caps were not good either...flawed fit... otherwise will do just not happy with the product perse or instructions...delivery good...will see how they do.
I did a lot of research before purchasing my roof rack. I came across this website and liked the prices, and after much thought, decided to get the Yakima CoreBar crossbars. I received my roof rack within a couple days of ordering! It's extremely sturdy and doesn't make hardly any wind noise. I love it and it looks great on my car, couldn't be happier with my purchase!!
The 60" CoreBar Crossbars will be much more useful to us than the original 50" bars placed on our shell at the factory. The only issue I had was that there were no instructions with the bars. It took a little while for me to figure out how the old bars came off and how to put the new ones on but I'll consider that a learning experience.
This Yakima rack system for my 2017 Kia Sedona works great and are rock solid. I have two Kayaks I take to the lake, river, and beach house for vacations. Dena was extremely helpful and kept me up to date on everything. It’s very seldom to find a company with reps that actually care about the customer!!!! Please keep this going! The shipping was fast and easy and I had them installed within an hour in this Georgia heat! The only thing missing was the etrailer stickers......... ;p I would definitely recommend this product from etrailer for any of you rack needs!!!
Easy Install.
But, the instructions tell you torque bolts to 48 in lbf or 5.4 Nm, with the L shape security wrench.
How do you apply a specific torque to a L shaped wrench?
Can't put a torque wrench on it.
My question and reason for 4 stars is for Yakima. Why not supply a preset torque driver like the one supplied for the Skyline Tower installation?
Overall I'm quite pleased.
Product was packaged well, arrived in perfect condition.
Instructions easy to follow. Installation took less than (1) hour. I did it alone & I’m 76 yrs. old.
Is very sturdy. Looks good on my 5 door Subaru.
The feature that impressed me the most in dealing with your company was how I was able to track my package inside your facility with the name of the employee handling the item before it even shipped. Very organized. Would definitely recommend you to others & purchase from you again.
Had all parts in stock. This is the number 1 reason purchased from Etrailer.com. I was given tracking info the entire way to destination. Order shipped same day. Definitely a 5 star company. Thanks Etrailer.com.
George J.
Like to say thank you .
The roof rack for my 2022 trail boss looks great.
etrailer.com And Yakima roof racks has a VERY good product .
I would have given you guys more stars if I could.
Shipping Time , boxing of the product and the way everything went together was
A #1. Easy and fast.
Also, removal just as fast.
Thanks again.
Awesome price! Shipped to me fast and it's an amazing product. Customer service helped me through some ordering confusion and got everything figured out very smoothly. Love the roof rack!
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