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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 JetStream Crossbars - 50" Long - Silver - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2016 Jeep Cherokee, we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Yakima Roof Rack System. This is going to consist of the Yakima Jet Stream Crossbars, part number: Y00425, and the Timberline Towers, part number: Y00147. Now these crossbars are also available in silver with part number: Y00428.The Yakima Roof Rack System is a great solution for carrying your vehicle accessories on your roof, whether those are bike racks, ski and snowboard carriers, kayak carriers or cargo baskets. The Aerodynamic shape of our bar, as well as the weatherstrip on the inside, are going to help to reduce wind, noise, and drag.If we remove our end cap on our crossbar, on the inside we can see our weatherstrip. This can easily be pushed down, and we can add in channel-mounted accessories. Unlike with other roof racks, we will have to remove that weatherstrip.
This one just pushes down, and you can place in those channel-mounted accessories and easily remove those accessories without having to replace your weatherstrip.On our tower, we do have the option to put in the Yakima Same-Key System Lock Core, that's going to help to prevent theft and tampering of your roof rack system as a whole. If we remove our cover, you can see our rubber strap on the inside here. It is protected in that rubber to prevent any scratches or abrasions from our roof rack system onto our raised rails. It is going to grip around those raised rails. When our bolts are tightened down completely, it's going to give us a nice, secure fit.The entire roof rack system has 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.
Each piece of our roof rack system also has a limited lifetime warranty. It's quick and easy to install, we'll show you how to do that now.Now everything that you see on our table is what's included in our kit. The only thing we've provided ourselves is a flat tape measure.Here with our tower, we're going to have it so that the top is facing up. We're going to slip in the black plastic portion of our adapter. Take the metal top and put that just on top of our foot pack.
We'll flip our tower over and we're going to push it so that we can see that hole on the inside there. It's very hard to see. We'll take our included tool and we're going to tighten that spot down. We're going to tighten it down until everything is flush on the top here.Now we can take our tower and we're just going to slide it onto our crossbar. We'll take our end cap for our crossbar and place it in place.Now we're ready to load this up onto our vehicle.
We want our towers to sit just up against our raised rail and our strap to sit underneath our rails.Now we'll measure out crossbar overhang. There's no specific measurement for this, we just want it even on each side.Now we'll measure out our crossbar spread. This is going to be from the center of our front tower to the center of our back. We just want to make sure that this is even on each side. There's no specific measurement for it. What I would suggest is that you go by whatever accessory and the minimum distance between your two crossbars that you need for that accessory. Today we're just going to go for about 29 inches on each side.To start off, we're going to tighten down our bolt here at the top. This is going to prevent that adapter on the inside from moving back and forth.Next we can take our straps and we're going to attach them into our tower. Once we have that in place, we can take our included tool and tighten down our bolts. We're going to do this just enough so that our strap grips around our raised rail. We'll make sure to do the same thing on the other side.Once we hear the clicks we'll know that we have our strap tight enough. It's going to give us a nice, secure fit. Take our included end cap for our tower, snap that into lace. We're ready to load up our accessories and hit the road.That's going to be our completed look at the Yakima Roof Rack System on our 2016 Jeep Cherokee.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (172 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.
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!!
Follow the instructions, and you can't go wrong on the self installation
Yakima Baseline with Yakima CBX 18 Cargo Box fitted on my 2012 Toyota Corolla S Sedan 2012.
Instructions were clear and roof rack was easily installed.
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.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
You guys provide great products and excellent customer service.
Thanks
The design of the connection seems a little sketchy to me. Hopefully I'm wrong and the design engineers have it figured out. etrailer's selection process, delivery ann installation help both online and on the phone was excellent
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.
The 50” jetstream cross bars were perfect for my 2019 Ford Ranger with my ARE cap. They are paired with the Yakima Skyline towers and appropriate landing pads (protip: call etrailer when you order to ensure you have the correct setup;)
These cross bars are SILENT on my cap. Zero wind noise. My daughter and I installed them on a Friday (I do recommend watching etrailer’s installation video in addition to the paper instructions) and left for a 700 mile weekend road trip the next day to pick up a kayak, paddle with friends downstate then drop her off at summer camp.
Even with empty Yakima Jaylows on top, no wind noise. Even with a boat in the Jaylows, no wind noise.
These are the sweetest rack’s I’ve had. With the Skyline towers and landing pads, they are also easy to take off and put on. Click click done.
They look good, too;)
etrailer customer service for the win, too. When I originally ordered, I did not order all the items I needed for installation. When I realized this, I called and they got me squared away.
I’m using these towers in conjunction with the JetStream cross bars. Assembly and setup was easy, all the tools you need are provided, except perhaps a tape measure for mounting. Looks and feels solid and well made. This is my second set of Yakima towers and cross bars. I plan to use this setup for an old roof top hard shell case and for my mountain bike to get to the trail head.
After completing the installation I took it out for a spin to check for wind noise at highway speeds. No discernible noise, I’m very happy about that as I really don’t want to remove these when not needed. For reference these are mounted on a 2019 Subaru Forester Touring with factory raised rails. Plenty of clearance for attaching equipment and gear.
Side note: the gentleman that assisted me on the phone while ordering was very pleasant and helpful, got me the right products very quickly as I was in a time crunch. Two thumbs up!
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
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.
Well packaged and on time
Great product - very good quality. I liked the fact that I could keep the risers mounted on my car, but could remove the cross bars. It took me awhile to install - but I'm not very mechanically inclined.
etrailer installation videos were very helpful in selecting the product and first installation, although in practice, minor adjustments to method were required. Now after more than a dozen set ups, mounting the crossbars takes 15 minutes, and taking them off, 10. The system is well made, and when mounted, precise, strong, and reliable. Expensive perhaps compared to alternatives, but well worth the money. Used to carry a 50# sailboard 40 miles to the beach on weekends. ('11 Honda Fit)
One minor shortcoming: rubber sheet glued to base clips where they touch the car body have torn and moved sideways 1/16", but expect will be easily replaced with readily available 1/16" sheet rubber (e.g., shower pan liner) when the time comes.
Used in rain at least once, (sustained 60mph), with no leaks.
Good condition quality. Good and detailed instructions but aittle tedious install.
Roof rack parts were ordered correctly and shipped quickly.
I needed crossbars for my new 2018 Mazda CX5, which came with flush side rails. The Yakima crossbars, along with the RidgeLine Towers and the the vehicle specific kit worked great. The installation (10-15 min) is super easy. They look cool, and performed great (I strapped 160-lbs rooftop tent on them!). Removing them is also super easy (10 min tops). Highly recommend.
Because of the 'rona-induced supply chain interruptions, I was unable to purchase all of my Yakima components from etrailer, but I did get these, and they are typically excellent Yakima components. Well-made, easy to install, good directions, no problems.
I chose the Yakima roof rack, because It spanned 50 inches, rather than the leading competitor's 47 inches, making it better for tying down 4 ft x 8 ft sheets of building material. It also seemed to be about half the price. It took me about 2 hours to put it all together and mount it on my car. The instructions were all visual and there was one little pic I didn't understand, but the equipment seemed to go together correctly anyway. Now that it's adjusted, it should be fairly easy to remove and replace next time. I did need to put on super tacky gloves to get the covers off. Although it seemed unnecessarily complicated, I would still choose this product again.
Yakima Jetstream cross bars.. nice bars worth the extra money. can be adjusted for pitch/angle of attack to "tune" the air profile.. mine have absolutely no high speed wind noise or whistling.. rubber weather strip underneath further smoothes the bar profile.. quietest roof rack system I have ever owned..
Relatively easy to install on my VW Golf (etrailer videos are very helpful) and sooooo useful with my Yakima skybox. Not much road noise, so I can leave the rack on even when I am not using it.
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