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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.
Carla: Hey guys, Carla here with etrailer.com. Today we're going to be taking a look at the Yakima RoundBar Gutter Mount Roof Rack System on our 2020 Jeep Wrangler. This roof rack right here, if you're going for more of a rugged look, this is definitely the way to go with the round bars. A lot of customers are used to that look and it looks pretty cool on a Jeep. Let's go ahead and take a closer look at it.One thing I want to point out, as per the instructions, you do want to install both bars on the non-removable portion of your top. As you can see, this right here divides the front portion that is removable.
So you can leave your hard top on, but remove this portion. You don't want to put the bars on the front.All right. Basically what we have right here is an outer clip. As you can see it as rubberized, so you don't have to worry about any scratches.On the inside we have sort of what looks like a wedge that's going to fit right inside your rain gutter, and it does have these nice pads. Again, rubberized to avoid any damage or scratching to your rain gutters on your top.What we've got right here in the center is an actual knob.
How it works is as you're tightening this down, it's pushing the two together, pinching your rain gutter and securing it to your roof.Right in the center here, what we've got is a spot where you can use the Yakima Same Key System. Not only will that secure your roof rack to your top, but it also allows you to use the same key if you've got other Yakima accessories.Right up here, we've got our 58 inch round bar. It's a steel bar, so it's very, very sturdy. As you can see, it adds a really cool, rugged look to the Jeep. There is one bolt in the center here that I can show you here in a little bit, and that's going to tighten down and make sure that your bars are not going to be able to slide once you have them set in place.All right, right in here, we've got our bolt and that's the bolt that I was talking to you about earlier.
The first step to get this on there would be to use this tool. Even though it is included, you can see it's kind of hard to get in there. Especially if you're coming from the bottom, you don't really have a step stool, it's kind of hard to get in there. If you are looking for something that's a little bit easier to install, if you plan on putting it on and off quite a bit, then Thule does have one that doesn't require any tools and you can just adjust it from the outside.That being said, let me go ahead and give you some measurements that you may be wondering about for this system. If you have RoundBar accessories already, or you plan on getting those, you're going to want to know your clearance right here from the bottom of the round bar to the top of your Jeep top.
From right here to this portion, we're right at about three inches. That's the space you have, so really good amount of space to be able to put any kind of accessory. Other than that, these bars do have a weight capacity of 165 pounds, but you do want to double check and make sure you're not exceeding the capacity of your top.Now that we've gone over some of the details, let's go ahead and show you how to put this on. I'm going to show you how to assemble your rain gutter foot right here. We have it partly assembled on this side. What you're going to want to do with the first step is go ahead and put these rubber pieces on the inside right here of this foot, just like this. Might need to stretch them out a little bit to get them up and over, and push them all the way in. Just like that. What this is going to do is going to prevent anything from scratching the rain gutter on your top. This piece right here is already rubberized, so these two, make sure that there's no contact that's not rubberized, all right.The next thing we want to do before we want to slide our foot on the bar, we got to loosen the bolt, which is right in here. This bolt right here, we're going to loosen it up so we can get this on the bar. This is an included tool that comes with it. So we're just going to go ahead and loosen it up. Now we can do it with our hand. As you can see, this piece moves and allows that hole to open up to accept our bar, just like that.All right, with that in place, we want to make sure that we insert it with this clamp or clip on the outside and it slides right over. Then you want to get it started with your hand too, so that it's a little bit easier to work with. I'm going to go ahead and start tightening it down here a little bit. But not too tight because you still want it to slide.All right, what you want to do is go ahead and put your end caps in now, just so that when we go up there to fit it on, you don't have the feet sliding off of the bar. I'll go ahead and throw them on. And with that on there we'll go ahead and throw this on top.All right. What you want to make sure is that your rain gutter right here is going be in between these two, in between the foot and the clip, just like this. Once that's on there, you can see, I can still adjust the bar. I'm going to go on the other side and make sure that we have it in the exact same position. Now you do want to measure your overhang, and that's going to be the overhang of the bar coming out of these legs to make sure that they're the same on both sides.At this point, before you tighten anything down, you want to go ahead and also measure your crossbar spread, and that's going to be dependent on your accessory. So whatever your accessory requires, you want to go ahead and measure from the center of the bar to the center of the other bar. Now there is a maximum crossbar spread of 60 inches on this one, and there's really not a minimum one, but we tend to recommend not going anything smaller than 24 inches, as most accessories are going to require a little bit longer than that. With that in place, we'll go ahead and use the included tool to tighten down our bar.At this point, if you do have access to a ratchet, it's probably the best time to pull it out so that you can save time doing this. Otherwise, you can keep using this tool, just take a little bit longer time. While you're tightening this, you want to make sure you push on the clip on the outside so that it doesn't touch, so that there's still a gap between it and your top.As we're tightening this bolt down, you may notice your metal piece on the foot starting to come apart from this. What you want to do is go ahead and pull this to this position so that when it's tightening down, it goes down smoothly.Even after turning this a couple of times, I could tell that it was still quite loose, so I found an easier way of going about it. Again, while you pull this up, I'm going to go ahead and use my fingers on both sides to just turn the nut on here. Once you can't turn it anymore with your fingers, then you can go ahead and finish using the tool here. Just finish up tightening this where your bar is secure on the foot. We'll go ahead and repeat the process on the other side.All right. So our next step is going to be to thread our tool right here, our nut. What you want to do is push up on this to make sure that it is making full contact with the bottom of this rail. When you do that, it pulls the clamp together. If you can see right in here, we still have a gap. We're really not touching the edge of our top.In some applications, when you do tighten this all the way down, you get close to it and you may have some contact. If that is the case, if it's still touching when you're pressing down on this and trying to keep it straight, Yakima does provide this protective plastic piece. What that would look like is you would just clamp it on the inside here, but like I said, we don't need it for this cheap application.We'll go ahead and tighten and you do want to alternate, on the other side, tightening. So I'll leave this, not all the way tightened, I'll go on the other side, and then come back and finish it up.So we'll finish tightening this up. Real quick, if you can see right down here, there's a screw. That screw does have to be pushed all the way in flush with this, to be able to allow you to turn this all the way in. You don't want to overtighten this, just turn it by hand. If you feel like there's not enough for one whole turn, you can stop right there. As you can see, it's very secure.Now that we've installed our roof rack, I will go ahead and give it a good shake. You can see how the entire car is moving, so it's on there very well. And now we can throw our skis or boards up there and hit the road.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (103 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.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:-)
roof racks showed up in great condition, and showed up as one package.... I should have ordered the J racks from here but I found them cheaper locally so Thule J racks compliment the whole setup and i am just about ready to hit the water :)
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
As always E trailer handled my order extremely well. Kept me updated on shipping also. Very professional!
Fit the 79 Dodge van perfectly
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.
These Yakima towers just work. They go on easily and stay tight. No issues whatsoever. They are a little pricey, but it's nice to have something that just works well without any drama.
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.
Thank again, etrailer. You always have what I’m looking for. I already had the bars, but I needed the towers.
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.
I received the Rain gutter riser, 66' round bars, boat loader and SKS lock cores all well packaged and in good shape. These are for a 2020 Jeep Wrangler JLU Rubicon. The products were easy to install and will work great for loading and transporting my Hobie Outfitter Kayak. The Outfitter is a heavy kayak at 75 lbs unloaded. The Yakama Boat loader makes it easy for one person to load and unload the kayak. The rain gutter mounts and round bars securely hold the kayak for transportation. When not transporting the kayak the whole system quickly removes.
A big plus with ordering through etrailer is the excellent custom service, they will be my go to for future orders.
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
I chose the Yakima A1 raingutter towers for mounting a 96" Yakima crossbar for my Humvee wildfire rig rooftop gear rack. The towers are sturdy and able to handle the constant jarring expected in wild land fire fighting in rugged terrain.
The only reason I am not giving it an excellent rating is the considerable wind noise that occurs. While we had our luggage carrier atop our car it seemingly imperceptible, however after driving around for a week while on vacation with simply the bars breaking the wind it was quite loud. With that being said they were a breeze to install, aside from having to use allen tool tighten down the fittings. I later discovered that a wratcheting screwdriver with the correct bit size provided for much faster installation and removal. I would definitely recommend for purchase.
Great service - great price
This was my second large order from Etrailer.com and my wife I are VERY pleased! Our first order was a Curt 5th wheel hitch which performed as advertised - so easy to use.
Now we haul our 5th wheel camper and that takes up my entire full sized F250 truck bed which in turn messed up hauling the kayaks back there. I was leaning toward rigging something up on the back of the camper, saw lots of posts on how to many looked very sketchy. Rather than risk dumping our two $$$ fishing kayaks onto the highway.... somewhere..... we bought this GREAT Yakima roof rack system for the TOP of my truck cab. You see, it made me uneasy that I wouldn't be able to keep an eye on our boats if strapped to the back AND we read about many horror stories not limited to the rear bumper falling off from fatigue. Yakima Install; I'm a General Contractor and fancy myself a pretty handy guy so mounting the towers, the rack bars, and all of the accessories onto those took a total three hours. [on-line] videos very useful and follow the easy to read instructions that come with each part and you'll have NO trouble. I have to add, etrailer said it would take one week but I received the complete order within four days. Thank you etrailer for making the ordering through delivery experience so very streamlined!
The roof mounts were fairly easy to install with the help of the well written installation instructions. I am looking forward to using my new Yakima roof rack for hauling my ladders or a rooftop clamshell cargo bin that I have.
etrailer never disappoints! Every product I need, I check that etrailer has it before purchasing anywhere else. Thank you for the excellent service, the fast delivery, and the email updates on order status.
I just finished installing the Yakima Roof rack - easy to follow instruction and great support via etrailer web site !
I did have one small issue with a missing piece BUT the tech/support staff at etrailer.com took care of the problem immediately and were very helpful - the missing piece arrived in about 2 days !
Super job to your great customer service !
Thank you !
Did an excellent job guys. The Yakima towers arrived on time and in good shape. Mounted right up to the canopy clips, installed the existing bars, kayak racks, and lock cores without any issues. All is ship-shape now. Will definitely come back to you guys again.
Thanks!
Yakima roof rack on a 2009 Nissan Cube. It was very easy to assemble and install. Although I haven't carried anything on it as of yet I'm pleased with the fit. It makes a little wind noise but not terrible. Can't wait to try it out with my kayak mounted on it.
Bought the Yakima 58" round cross bars to use on a Leer Camper shell on my 2016 F150. The bars are a perfect width for my shell and work great with my existing Control towers. Great quality as to be expected with Yakima.
Thank you for the quick shipment of my new Yakima Q tower roof rack for my 2007 F150 King Ranch. Following the simple instructions it went together easily and works and looks great. The follow up after purchase has been great from etrailer and I felt like if there had been a problem they would have been there to help me through it.
Thank you!
I have included a picture of my 2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse, with the Yakima Q
System and Even-Keel Kayak saddles. I also used a stretch Kit, which I
picked up locally due to time constraints.
I'll be sure to keep you guys in mind when I am ready to get additional
parts for the system.
These bars made my car look awesome and was really easy to instal
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