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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.
Today on our 2017 Kia Soul, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima Skyline Roof Rack System consisting of part numbers Y00408. These are the round 48" CrossBars. Part number Y00148, these are the SkyLine Towers. Part number Y03536, and this is the RoundBar SL Adapter for the Yakima Skyline Towers. Part number Y00233, and these are the Landing Pads for the Yakima Control Towers. The Yakima Skyline Roof Rack is great for carrying accessories on your roof and potentially freeing up space in your vehicle.
It can carry bike racks, cargo baskets, and closed cargo boxes, watersport carriers such as kayaks and canoes, ski and snowboard carriers. Always double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure that your roof can withstand the weight of the things you're putting on there. Combined, the two crossbars here have a carrying capacity of 220 pounds. All four towers have these plastic knock outs in the center here which you can replace with locks that are sold separately. It also has a nice feature that when you're done using the bars, you can simply just lift them off and each of the landing pads has these plastic caps that you can put in place so you don't have to remove them. Now that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack, let's go ahead and show you how it installs. We have our rear roof rack assembly here.
We have our landing pads, our skyline towers, and then our adapter kit for the roundbars. Let's go ahead and start by assembling our adapter kit for our roundbars and get those set up. I'll take our tower here, we'll place our adapter piece in the center, and then press it into place like so. We'll do this for the other one, as well. Now we'll take our adapter for the actual bar, set that in the center, and then we'll turn it upside down, find our screw at the bottom here, then tighten it down until you hear the clicks.
Now, repeat this for the other tower. Now, we'll go ahead and slide our tower onto our bar like so. We'll do the same for the other side. Then we'll go ahead and put our end caps in place, and so they don't come back out. Next, we'll 00:02:20 focus on our actual landing pads. Go ahead and take our top cover piece off like so, and then we'll attach our actual rubber pad at the bottom.
This just presses into place. We'll repeat this for our other landing pad. Now, we'll move on to the roof of the vehicle and our rear fix point's going to be right here. We'll have to remove this plastic piece on the top. You notice at the top of the plastic piece here it has a little arrow facing forward, so you go to this point here with the flat plated screwdriver. Just push forward and it'll lift right out. The bolt you're looking for is on the inside here where we're going to make our connection point with this bolt that comes with the kit. Now, this landing pad kit does come with several bolts. Please refer to your instructions to find out which one goes with your particular vehicle. Now, go ahead and set our landing pad over where we're going to be installing our bolt. Then we'll install our black plastic washer, and then our bolt, and three metal washers. We'll take our included Allen tool, match it up with our mounting point, and tighten it down. Now, we'll repeat this for the other side. Now, we can set our crossbar into place. Now, we want to make sure that the front here is in the open position. This is so they can rest into our landing pads. We'll set them in the cradles, and then we'll determine the crossbar overhang with our crossbars, and then tighten those down as well. I'm going to go back and forth here a little bit, and then measure it out to make sure that it's even on both sides. That looks good. Then we'll tighten our bars to our towers, and to do that we'll tighten this bolt in the center here with our included torque tool until it clicks. We'll do this on the other side. All right. Our final step is to close up our towers which will lock them into place to our landing pads. Just push them in like so, and now we're ready to hit the road. There you have it for the Yakima Skyline Roof Rack System on our 2017 Kia Soul.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (264 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.
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!!
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
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.
One quick phone call and Gwendolyn figured out exactly what I needed for our new car to use my old Yakima rack.
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.
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
Haven’t used them yet but they should work as expected
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.
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.
first try was missing what was needed
Etrailer helped. It was great!
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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