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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 2XL:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today in our 2016 Honda Pilot, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima Round Bar Roof Rack System consisting of part numbers Y00409, these are the round crossbars on the top here, and these are 58 inches long.We'll also be using part number Y03536, and this is the Round Bar Adapter Kit for the Yakima towers.We'll also be using part number Y00146. These are the Baseline Towers designed for naked roofs.Finally, to attach it to the vehicle, we're using the Base Clip Fit Kit part number Y06152.This is going to be the same for the rear bars as well. These are great sturdy cross bars for your roof, and car carry a wide variety of accessories such as bike racks, cargo carriers, excuse me, cargo baskets, and cargo boxes.While, they are exceptionally sturdy, they do cause noise while you drive. Now, you can purchase fairings that you can find on etrailer.com to help cut down that wind noise and drag, or you can upgrade to the Yakima core bars that also utilize this tower system.Moving onto the towers themselves, at the end caps here, we do have these plastic portions that can be removed and replaced with the Yakima SKS Lock Core System, so you can secure it to your vehicle and make it key to like with the accessories that you're hauling.Removing our end cap here you can see how everything attaches to the vehicle itself. We have the clamp that attaches to the door frame, as well as the pad underneath. So, your vehicle isn't going to get damaged or scratched once this is installed, because the clamp is also padded once it's being installed.So, let's go ahead and show you how the rear bar gets put into place.
We already have it partially assembled on our lovely table over here, With all the parts that you need right in front of it. So, our first step is, we're going to take our adapter kit for the round bar and attach it to our tower.This is a very easy process. You simply take the plastic portion here, push it in on the top, you're going to hear a little bit of a click. We'll take our round bar adapter, attach it to the screw in the center. We'll pull out this tab here, so we can get to the screw, flip it upside down.
We're just going to loosely tighten it so we can get it in place on our bar.Move over to our bar, slide this into place. To help out with this, we're going to flip it on its side here like so. Now we'll take our measuring tape here and measure out the distance between the two towers. You'll find this in your instructions.Move this out a little bit. Now normally what you would do, is you would find the center of the bar and measure out to both sides.
We already know where we had to be at so, kind of cheated a little bit. There we go. Now we'll tighten it down. I'd like to point out something here in a second. That's the tightening tool that comes with the kit.
It does give those audible clicks so you know when everything is torqued to its specifications without overtightening it.Now, one thing I'd like to point out, looking at the underside of our tower here, you're going to see three notches on each side here. One, two three. One, two, three. Knowing which side is the front is very important because that determines the pitch and the tow that you set. The pitch is on this side and we have it set to B, which is the middle notch. The first notch, A, B, C, and so on.On the other side the tow is set to two. One, two, three. We tighten it down with this screw here, which has already been done. Just be sure to take a look at this in your instructions when you're tightening everything down.Next, we'll take our pad here, pointing out that the arrow's going to be facing away from the vehicle, we'll snap that into place on the bottom, and now we're ready to set this on the room of our vehicle.Set it down gently, as to not damage our vehicle while we're doing this. Now, at this point, we're going to measure from center to center of the bars on both side to keep it even, and then we'll make sure that's it's even side to side too.Alright, we're going to want to make a couple adjustments here. Double check the measurements since I kind of had to move it a little. Alright. Looks like we're even on both sides too. Now we can open up our rear doors and start installing our clamps. This isn't necessarily the steps that they have you do in the instructions, but, I find that it make it a little bit easier on us while we're installing this, so we don't have the clamps accidentally making contact while we're setting them into place.So, our first step is we're going to loosen up the bolt here. You can see how this raises up like so. We're going to take our included clamp. We're actually going to loosen this up a little bit, going to push that in, and then, we're going to tighten that bolt that we just loosened up. You see how it's now going against the vehicle. We'll repeat this process on the other side as well.There's some other items you can put on this roof rack system. It can be anything from your ski and snowboard carriers to your kayak carriers as well. A wide variety of objects. Once we have this loosely installed, we'll get it snug up against the door frame on both sides. We'll go back and forth until it's completely tight, and then you hear those clicks from the tool. See how it's tightening down around there There we go. Close that up.Now we can put on our end caps on both the bars and our towers. I'd like to give you a couple final measurements here to give you an idea of how high it sits off the roof once it's installed. From the center of the roof to the bottom of the bar's going to be about two and five eighths of an inch, and from the center to the top is going to be about three and five eighths inches as well. So, that's more than enough space for your accessories that wrap around your bars, so it's not going to make contact with your roof and scuff it up at all.Also, you can still utilize your sunroof once these are installed as well. These bars do have a carrying capacity of 220 pounds once installed, but you should always check your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can take those weights and go by their recommendations.There you have it, for the Yakima Round Bar Roof Rack System on our 2016 Honda Pilot.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (18 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.The roof rack is great. Solid.
Protected the paint and held on tight.
Great service. Hally took good care of me. Letting me know when the order was processed, shipped, and delivered. When I had an issue, taken care of immediately. The product itself is as expected and with great Yakima quality.
1 star. Extremely disappointed with it.
Awesome! Thank you!
I purchased clips that were stated as being compatible with our 2010 Chevrolet Impala. The front clips fit well, however the rear clips do not.
From start to finish, the folks at etrailer -- and I spoke to several people there, so it was a consistent corporate vibe -- were fantastic to deal with.
There were delays in getting my product that were on the supplier side and out of eTrailer's control, yet etrailer folks kept me up to date and also worked on a customized solution.
My goal was to be able to carry my surfboard on the roof of our 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe to the beach more than 3 hours away. But the particular model we had had no existing racks, no recessed areas, nothing to fix racks to. Not even the dealer had a solution. I was sh*t out of luck.
But etrailer hooked me up. The racks did take me a while to put on, but most of that time was fine tuning to reduce “hum” while driving. I’m very happy with them.
Thanks to etrailer, I have gone surfing and can go surfing whenever I'd like to.
Had two different vehicles to get ready for two different trips and Joshua diligently tracked dow the correct Yakima accessories and backorder challenges. No other provider came close to this level of service. Excellent work! Both trips made better!
I purchased clips that were stated as being compatible with our 2010 Chevrolet Impala. The front clips fit well, however the rear clips do not.
I have a 10th gen Civic sedan and I was dying to get the perfect roof rack set for my car. At the time of my purchase there was not many visuals of what the rack system looked like on this car.
I purchased the:
•Yakima 50in Jetstream crossbars
•Yakima baseline towers
•bc182 & bc183 clips
•Yakima 46in fairing
Overall I love how it looks on my car! During This COVID pandemic I have been camping more, and this is the perfect foundation! First off, the 46in fairing is the perfect fit for the 10th gen civic! Wind noise is low also with the help of the aerodynamic crossbars. My main concern was the fuel efficiency. On long road trips I still average 38-40 mpg with the rack on. My daily commutes I average 34 mpg without Econ on.
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!!
Hyundai Sonata - glass pano roof. These items have been on for about 1-year. So happy with the set up. I’ve take a road bike and a mountain bike on 500+ mile trips. The mounts do an excellent job.
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