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These multipurpose, galvanized steel crossbars supply the backbone for your aftermarket roof rack system. Works with accessories that clamp around the bars. Pair with Yakima towers, fit kit, and RoundBar SL Adapter to create a complete roof rack.
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Yakima RoundBars - 58" Long - Black - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee, we're gonna be test fitting the Yakima RoundBar roof rack system, consisting of part numbers Y00408, these are the round 48 inch crossbars, part number Y00148, these are the skyline towers for the Yakima crossbars for fixed mounting parts, part number Y003536, which is the RoundBar SL adapter for the Yakima baseline, skyline, timberline towers, and finally part number Y00244. This is the landing pad kit to fit specifically on your Jeep Grand Cherokee.The Yakima RoundBar roof rack system is great for carrying a wide variety of accessories on your roof while freeing up space inside your vehicle. This can carry anything from bike racks to cargo baskets to cargo boxes. With the RoundBars, you may experience some noise while you drive, but Yakima does offer fairings, which you can find on etrailer.com to cut down that wind noise and drag as well. Also with our end caps here, we do have plastic knockouts that can be removed and replaced with the Yakima SKS lock systems, which are sold separately. So, you can actually secure this to your roof, but you can also make it keyed alike with the accessories that you're hauling as well.It's also very easy to use.
You open up the door like so, and then you can lift it up out of place. When you're not using it, it does have these caps which you can put into place, so you don't have to remove them and they're ready for next time.Next, I'd like to give you a couple quick measurements. From the center of the roof to the bottom of our bar is gonna measure about three and seven eighths inches. From the center of the roof to the top is gonna be about five inches, so there's plenty of space for your accessories in between where you won't make contact with your roof. Now, since this does have a sunroof, you may be limited a little bit while the roof rack is installed.Also, both of our bars have a combined carrying capacity of 165 pounds, but you always want to double check with your owner's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights.Now that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack system, let's go ahead and show you how it installs.
We have our front bar already installed on our roof rack system, and we have our rear bar partially assembled on the table here. Here we have our tower, the RoundBar adapter kit, and of course the landing pad, which fits inside our flush mount rail, and we'll get to that a little bit later.We'll first start off by attaching our adapter kit to our tower. We'll start by taking our plastic adapter piece here and just popping that into the top of our tower. Then we'll take our RoundBar, insert that into the center here, and go underneath and take our included tool and tighten it down. You don't want to tighten down all the way because next we're gonna slide this end to the other end of our bar.
It simply slides into place. Then we can finish tightening that bolt the rest of the way. What's good about this tightening tool is it does have a torquing feature. We're gonna hear those audible clicks, so now you know it's tightened down to its max capacity.So, next we'll remove the screw at the top here where we'll place our landing pad, and it does come with an included tool to do this. Remove the screw completely and set it aside to a place where you know where it's at, so when you're done using the roof rack, you can put it back in place.Next, we'll take our first part of our landing pad, we'll place it over the hole where the screw is that we just took out.
Then we'll take our second piece and set that on top like so. Then we'll take one of our screws, a lock washer and a flat washer, put it through the center, line up the holes, and take the included Allen tool and tighten it down. We already repeated this for the other side, and tighten it down until it's nice and tight, not gonna move, and now we can grab our bar.So, we'll take our bar and our towers, line them up, making sure they're in the open position, and set them in our landing pads. We'll do this to the other side, and then we'll measure for our crossbar overhang and make sure it's even as well. Once that's even, we'll tighten down the screw in the center here, so lock up our towers to our bar. Again, you're gonna want to do this until you hear those clicks. Once that's door, you push the door closed here, and now it's locked in to our landing pad. We'll do this on our driver's side as well.There you have it for the Yakima RoundBar roof rack system on our 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (272 Customer Reviews)
These multipurpose, galvanized steel crossbars supply the backbone for your aftermarket roof rack system. Works with accessories that clamp around the bars. Pair with Yakima towers, fit kit, and RoundBar SL Adapter to create a complete roof rack.Kimberly has shown that great customer service is not dead! etrailer and Kimberly are great to work with and have earned my business and will always be the 1st and last place I look for my rack+ needs!
As for the application, I needed more space to fit my cargo box on top of my 4Runner TRD Pro’s rack. I came up this this… Thank you!
Free delivery that showed up in 3 days!!! Can't beat it. The crossbars with the Control Towers and LandingPad 9 fit perfectly on my Honda Element. Had them installed in about 30 mins. Don't have my cargo box yet and wanted to test strength, so I had my 110lb wife standing on them with no issues (yes, the car was parked). Plan to take a long camping trip next week with a cargo box on top...wife will be in the vehicle:-)
Works perfectly. I am always impressed that Yakima continues to make parts for the "old roundbars" since they have since moved on to the superior JetStream bars.
Excellent selection of rack parts. Very useful installation videos help when choosing between products. Easy ordering process. Quick delivery.
necessary for using the widest cross bar option (78"). East to install
A great company to do business with, and lots of merchandise in stock. I orderd a roof rack for my truck on Tuesday morning and it was on the porch when I returned from work on Thursday. I will deffinitely order more from etrailer.com
One quick phone call and Gwendolyn figured out exactly what I needed for our new car to use my old Yakima rack.
The rack has been so useful since I purchased it. Staff at etrailer.com were exceptionally helpful in getting the best option for my car and answering questions. I recommend this company, for its 110% customer service, excellent prices and timely delivery.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
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.
Great first experience dealing with you guys! Shipped fast, and was a faster install. You gave me the right parts and it went together in a flash.
Will definitely be doing business with you all again.
I have been using Yakima racks for around 40 years and have never had any problems. However, I am amazed at the price increases over the years. Etrailer prices were by far lower than most. Overall, a very excellent purchase.
Kit worked perfectly on my 2021 Subaru Forester. The whole install took 30 minutes. Never been disappointed with etrailer.
Haven’t used them yet but they should work as expected
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
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.
first try was missing what was needed
Etrailer helped. It was great!
I'm happy that this allows me to save money by using my old round bars on my new vehicle, with only the purchase of new "towers" and these adapters.
E trailer has me me spoiled yet again! If only I could expect this level of service from other suppliers.
Works great to use my round bars on the Skyline towers.
Yakima Crossbars were as you would expect - steel bars coated in a soft black coating (be mindful when you are utilizing these with the top mounts as the clamp will eat through the soft coating when you tighten them down). I had issues with my yakima round bar setup as the brackets and tower system were allowing water to leak in. This is in no way reflective of what youll experience but Yakima has superb support. I spoke with them twice on my issue and out of their kindness they shipped me an entire setup to replace my existing one for free.
Product works as advertised thus far. When you buy the yakima towers, you are required to purchase these as well to fit the rounder bars (I feel sure there are other adapters for other bar shapes). These should have come with the towers in my opinion, and I resented having to shell out more $$ to purchase these "must have" adapters to mount my bars. 3 star overall rating based on function, price. Delivery and packaging was top-notch through etrailer.
I ordered a Yakima Roof Rack for my Toyota Prius from eTrailer.com. Part of the reason for purchasing from eTrailer.com was the promise that the racks were made specifically for the car and would not dent the roof.
I received the rack on July 31, and installed the racks on my Prius according to instructions included with the racks. Our tandem kayak is 65 lbs . The towers were placed on the outer most part of the roof as indicated by the instructions. Yakima saddles were attached to the crossbars to hold the kayak. Nothing was close or touching the top of the roof. We transported the kayak to a nearby lake, 6 miles, and back. The next day we removed the racks from the roof and noticed 4 dents on the top of the roof. It was obvious that transporting the kayak on the rack caused the dents.
We had to pay $100 to have the dents removed from the Prius roof.
I cannot continue to use this rack that puts dents in the car's roof. I was extremely disappointed in the racks. In reading the Toyota manual and contacting them by phone, there is no mention of using or not using roof racks.
I was shocked to learn from Rachel at eTrailer.com that your company takes absolutely no responsibility for this Yakima product they sell. The best they can do is to pass the buck and refer us to Yakima.
Very disappointed, and out a lot of money for a product that damages your car. Will not recommend or buy here again. eTrailer.com does not even deserve one star in this review.
Typical Yakima cross bars. Coating is a little too easy to cut or gouge, but probably needs to be that way to get the grip it provides. Good enough solution for me, and allows me to continue to use all the attachments I've accumulated over the years that require a round bar
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