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These heavy-duty, aluminum crossbars work with Rhino-Rack legs to create a sturdy roof rack. The square bars include built-in C-channels for mounting Rhino-Rack heavy-duty, contractor-grade accessories.
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Rhino-Rack HD Crossbars - Black - 50" Long - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on our 2017 Hyundai Sonata we'll be taking a look a the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System. This consists of part numbers RRVA126B-2. These are going to be our Rhino Rack Vortex Aero Cross Bars. The Cross Bars are also available in silver, part number RRVA126S-2. Part number RRRLKVA, those are our Rhino Rack 2500 Series Feet for our naked roof. And part number DK455, that's going to be our custom fit kit for our vehicle. The Rhino Rack Roof Rack Kit is an aerodynamic roof rack system that allows you to carry your vehicle's roof rack accessories on your vehicle, whether those are your bike racks, cargo baskets, or ski and snowboard carriers.
The aerodynamic shape as well as the weather strip in the center are going to help to reduce wind noise and drag. That strip can be cut down and removed so you can use it with channel mounted accessories. The end caps come with a plastic lock system, and can be removed to use with a metal lock core system. That helps to reduce theft and tampering of your channel mounted accessories. The Rhino Rack Foot Pack comes with a locking cover that's going to help to reduce theft and tampering of your roof rack system as a whole. Along with that we have a custom fit kit, the padding, and the clamp that are going to be custom cut to your vehicle, so it gives a nice secure fit.
Any portion of our fit kit that touches our vehicle has a padding to help prevent scratches or abrasions from our roof rack system to our vehicle. These cross bars are 49" in length, but you can get longer bars, just as long as they don't extend out past your side view mirrors. These bars have a 165 pound weight capacity, though you do want to double check your vehicle's owner's manual to make sure it can withstand that much weight. All the instructions on how to secure this to your vehicle are included. We'll show you how to secure it next. Now everything that you see on our table is what's included with out kit. We're going to have our locking covers for our foot pack.
We'll have our two pieces of our fit kit with the rubber bottom and the clamp. We've got our locking end cap for our cross bar, our key for our locking end cap, the keys to lock on the covers for our foot pack. Our included torque tool that's going to indicate whenever we have enough torque behind our bolt, and we've provided our own flat tape measurer. To start off we're going to remove our bolt here. We'll take our clamp and we're going to place it on top. Then we're going to want to tighten down our bolt.
We don't want to tighten this down too much, we want to tighten it just enough so that it hold our clamp into place. Next we'll remove this plastic bottom, take our rubber piece, and we're going to secure those together. Once that's all secured together we want to make sure that our two arrows are facing the same way, and we want those to face towards our clamp, or out away from the center of our bar. Then we can take this and place it onto our cross bar. I'm going to start by taking this square nut and we're going to place it into our channel, slide it on, and then we're going to measure out this spread. It's going to be from the end of our channel to the end of our foot pack. That's going to be 18-1/2 centimeters. All the measurements will be in your instructions, you don't have to worry about memorizing any of those. Just double check. Make sure that it's still in the right spot. Tighten this down just a bit more. Then we'll take our end cap for our cross bar, and we're going to place this on. We'll take our key and lock that into place. Now we're ready to open up the doors of our vehicle, and load this up. We'll start by taking our cross bar, I'm going to gently set it in place. We can measure out our cross bar spread. The cross bar spread is going to be from the middle of the front clamp to the middle of the back clamp. Again, the measurement will be in your instructions. It's going to be 60 centimeters. Whatever we do to one side we always want to do to the other. Now that we have our cross bar in the correct place we'll start to tighten our bolt down. We're going to tighten it so that our clamp is sitting just up against our door frame to start. We'll use our included tool to do so. Now we'll know when we have a torque behind our bolt when the skinnier edge of our torque tool is straight, like you see here. Now we have our doors closed up, we're going to take our locking cover, place it on and lock it into place. Now would be a good time to load up any of your gear and you're ready to hit the road. That's going to be our completed look at the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System on our 2017 Hyundai Sonata.
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (74 Customer Reviews)
These heavy-duty, aluminum crossbars work with Rhino-Rack legs to create a sturdy roof rack. The square bars include built-in C-channels for mounting Rhino-Rack heavy-duty, contractor-grade accessories.I got the roof rack mounted anyways. Better pics to come when it's all finished!
Thanks to etrailer, I am ready to do some serious summer exploring with my 2013 Mazda 3! Rhino Racks, Malone top box, and Kuat bike rack!
The rack fit well and was easy to install. Seems to be made well. The problem is the amount of road noise. I never even put the basket on. It was so loud, it roared. I repositioned it several times but the noise was way too much and I finally just removed it. I spent a lot of money for the rack and the basket and now they are in storage. I wish it would have worked out better because I thought it looked really good.
love it, no problem and easy to install and take on and off, 47,000 miles on the highway and not a single issue. I even like the song the ladder hums to me driving down the interstate. This is my second Rhino and both have preformed to a high standard.
Ordered a Rhino Rack for my 2014 GMC Sierra 2500HD Denali. Rack arrived in very good shape and all items were there. Installing at this time and see no problems ahead.
This rack works perfectly on my Nissan Versa for carrying my two Perception Sound 9'6" kayaks. The Rhino-Racks look good to me. The kayaks can rest directly on the rubber pads on the rails, unlike the Yakama racks I had in the past that had bare pipe rails. Also, I expect I can buy parts to adapt this product to a different car without having to buy new towers. I am sorry there are not hooks or loops to attach bungees when carrying lumber. They are noisy in the wind, but less so when carrying the kayaks.
I love it works amazing on my 2017 Hyundai sonata sport 2.0T
Thanks to Etrailer, I am ready to do some serious summer exploring with my 2013 Mazda 3! Rhino Racks, Malone top box, and Kuat bike rack!
Good quality and locks are included. The plastic lock covers are flimsy but they will keep an honest person honest.
Thank you for the very speedy customer service! My roof rack is already here!
Arrived quick. Looked overwhelming at first but the instructions were easy to follow
I got the roof rack mounted anyways. Better pics to come when it's all finished!
Things went well. Customer service was great.
I was in a roof rack jam. There was a national shortage of the rack I needed for my car and our summer vacation was a week away. I went to etrailer.com when I couldnt find the roof rack anywhere else on the web. Another website actually suggested that they might have what I needed.
I spoke to Ashley E on the phone to make sure that I was picking the right parts. Ashley was very helpful and knowledgable. She helped me find the right roof rack and made sure that I received it in record time. I am a customer for life!!!
Great product everything fit perfectly. With the heavy duty bars almost all the hardware for anything you put on the rack is too short
Product seems very durable, sturdy an rugged, Shipping wasn't bad took about a week to get. However looks like one of my rails was returned an then shipped back to me, the box had someone else's name but scratched out and spray painted, an some of the measurement pieces in the inside where already cut in half. I took the one from the other rail and made it work. Would be a 5 star if that didn't happen. However I would recommend the product overall seems pretty well. This is my first rack I've loaded one box on it and it held it down.
I ordered a roof rack for my 15' sonata. Upon receiving the parts I recognized a few of the parts were for a Honda. At first customer service was a bit hard to get a hold of, I would call and be on hold for quite a while. Finally one day I stayed on hold and it was 25 minutes until I was able to talk t a representative. After talking to a rep, she told me to send pics via email and I did. The next day I saw I had not received a reply so I called early on in the morning, surprisingly I got through really quick and i was put on the phone with Laser who by the way rocked. He knew exactly what to do, how to do it and made it all so simple. He alone completely changed my mind about etrailer. If you ever have to contact customer support be patient because you will be waiting and hope you talk with Laser. None the less i received my new parts within 3 days. I give them a thumbs up.
This kit is easy to slap on and sturdy enough to balance my skis and snowboards. I recently used the Rhino Rack on a three hour drive to a ski resort and had no issues.
This rack worked out great... I installed in on a 2017 Ford F-150. We drove 6 hrs through wind and rain with a SUP and Tandem Kayak on top. It really took a beating in a storm the whole way. One bracket was a little loose and shifted because of the wind on the Kayak, but it held together. Super happy with Rhino rack!
This is my second Rhino-Rack. They go on very easily and hold the bikes/kayaks and even an extension ladder very well....thanks for a great product
The product is high quality. The instructions were complete and precise. The installation was straightforward. The fit to the car is excellent. The only quibble I have is that there was one bolt missing, and I had to go to the hardware store for that.
Customer service was excellent. They guided me to get exactly what I needed. Rhino rack is quiet and sturdy. Just be sure to install the measuring strips underneath and the strips on top!
Love the roof rack! Works great for ka yaks!
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