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Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.
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Yakima 60" JetStream MD - Silver:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
How's it going, everyone It's Ethan here with etrailer. Today we're going to be taking a look at the Yakima Roof Rack System with our JetStream crossbars and showing you how to install them on our 2022 GMC Sierra. If you're transporting a large amount of items or just large items in general and you don't have room in your bed, or they're just items you'd rather keep out of the cabin of your vehicle, a roof rack system like this is gonna be a good way to do that. The crossbars that we have here are an aerodynamic shape so they taper in the back just to cut down on some of that wind noise and wind resistance. With any sort of roof rack system, you'll get a little bit, but this is nice that it cuts some of that down. Additionally, it does feature this rubberized strip inside this T-track slot, so you can use these roof rack with T-track accessories and there's no need to trim the actual strip to get those on.
As far as the length of our crossbars go, there are a couple of different options as far as length. These are 60", which we found gives us enough room on top and enough overhang. The overhang that we have, we're measuring at 5", which gives you a little bit more room for accessories without being overbearing or sticking over your vehicle too much. With a weight capacity of 165 pounds, these crossbars will do a fine job of storing most of the bigger items that you might need, but something to keep in mind when you are storing those items is are they going to make contact with the top of your roof So we'll just measure from the roof to the bottom of our crossbars. It's about 3 1/2", so if your accessories do have clamps or things that hang onto the crossbars, you wanna keep that measurement in mind.
Additionally, to see how much height we're adding to the top of our vehicle is about 4 1/4", so if you live with these crossfires on your vehicle, that's how much you're gonna be adding to it. Additionally, if you have taller bindings on your skis or things like that, that's a good measurement to keep in mind to see if those will make contact with your vehicle as well. To start the install process, we like to just lay everything out, making sure that we know what everything is and that we have it. So we're going to obviously have our crossbar here, two towers, the covers for the towers, two hooks that'll keep the actual feet in place, two pads for the bottom, and our end caps. Additionally, there is a provided tool and we recommend going ahead and grabbing a fabric tape measure.
They do provide one, but we have our own. We'll start by assembling our towers. First thing, we probably want to loosen this metal plate here. We do that first actually by releasing this security lever. As you can see, it covers it.
If you pull it back, you have access to get in there. So we'll loosen that. And in our case, there are three different steps for the GMC Sierra that we're going to be putting these on. They do recommend setting it to C, but make sure you check the manual and see what's recommended for your vehicle. Now the next step is to get the actual feet on the towers. So ours came with a plastic cover. We just removed that, and making sure that this arrow on the tower is facing out, it just snaps into place. (feet snapping onto tower) And now we can go ahead and slide this onto our crossbar. Because we loosened that metal plate earlier, it should just slide right onto our track like so. Make sure you consult the manual to see the specific measurements for your vehicle, but as you can see, there are little ruler notches on the actual crossbars themselves, so using those will slide the feet to the point where we need it, which is right about here, in our case, and we can get that tightened down. (screwdriver twisting) Once we have our feet on, we can put our end caps back on just like that. As you can see, we already have our first crossbar installed. We got our measurement from the end of our glass windshield here and took it up to the front of the tower. It's going to be vehicle specific, but we have it where we need it in our case. Now we can fit our crossbar onto the roof of our vehicle, trying to do it as carefully as possible. The pads on the bottom should make it a little bit nicer on top of your vehicle, but we'll get it vaguely where we need to be and adjust it. When you actually place the crossbars on top of the vehicle, these feet are nice 'cause they will actually fit in the ridges on top of your roof. Now that we have our crossbars roughly where we need them to be, we'll take a measurement to make sure that the crossbar spread is what's recommended for our vehicle. In our case, it is 32", so we're about there. Just slide this forward a little bit and that's pretty good. Now we'll get clamps installed as well, starting by opening up that security door again, sliding it through, and all we have to do is get our tool through the middle of there and tighten it, probably not all the way just yet. We're gonna have to adjust our other side and we'll probably wanna go back and forth tightening it down just to make sure that one side isn't over-torqued. We've tightened the other side to where we need it to be and this one's about where we need it as well, so we'll close that security gate up and we can fit our racks back, or the end cap back on starting with these cringes down at the bottom and click that in place. Once you've done that, that's basically it. Fairly simple installation, as long as you know where all the pieces are and what they do, but you're ready to hit the road. Overall though, I think that the Yakima Roof Rack System is a sleek and pretty effective roof rack system. I like that the arrow bars will cut down on that wind resistance and I really like that rubberized strip that I don't have to trim. Now, if aesthetics are something that's really important to you, we found that the Rhino-Rack Roof Rack System looks just a little bit sharper, but I like the install of the Yakima Roof Rack System a little bit better, just a little bit easier if you're gonna be taking it on and off a lot, in my opinion, and overall, I think that it's a really nice fit on our 2022 GMC Sierra.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (122 Customer Reviews)
Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.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.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
Strong, Solid Bars, Super Light, and really easy to install!
Follow the instructions, and you can't go wrong on the self installation
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!!
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.
Well packaged and on time
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.
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.
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.
Great product fast shipping
Great! Easy to install!
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
Work exactly as they should and hold everything securely to my vehicle without interfering with the car’s normal operation. etrailer had best prices based on my research. These bars are much quieter than traditional round bars and worth the added expense.
Easy to install thanks to the etrailer video. I have used the rack system on many long distance trips including driving from South Carolina to Yellowstone.
Nicole was beyond helpful!!!
Easy to install and sturdy. I carry a 9' pontoon boat on my camper shell using this rack at freeway speeds with no problems.
Happy with the purchase. Crossbars shipped and received quickly.
Yakima is always great, the bars are just right for my kayaks and look great too.
Roof rack parts were ordered correctly and shipped quickly.
Hi, the company, good profesinal service. The product, all I pay was there. Very easy to install. Thanks Bless
The products were all as explained. No issues on installation.
Great fit, feels really sturdy, excellent directions
Arrived on time, hard to find item in stock, thanks e trailer
Excellent service and easy install instructions.
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