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Heavy-duty crossbars mount to Yakima towers (sold separately) to create an aftermarket truck bed rack or roof rack. Top and bottom channels let you add channel-mount accessories. Tie-down points in endcaps let you easily secure cargo.
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Today on our 2013 Mazda CX-5, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima CoreBar Roof Rack System consisting of part numbers y00421. These are the Yakima CoreBar cross bars, 50 inches long, part number y00148. These are the SkyLine Towers for the Yakima cross bars for fixed mounting points, part number y00233. These are the landing pads which the SkyLine Towers will sit on. Now we already have the front one installed. The bars themselves have a nice aerodynamic shape to them and that's going to cut down wind noise and drag while you're driving.
They're constructed of steel and they have a carrying capacity with the other bar of 220 pounds. That packs a little bit of extra weight that you can put on top of your car. Although you want to double check to make sure your car can withstand that weight. Let's go ahead and show you how the rear one goes on. We'll start with the landing pads first, which these 2 pieces here are the landing pad. You open up the cover here and we'll start our rubber pad on the bottom, which just snaps in to place.
Once that's together, we'll take our bolt, our washer, and plastic washer, put them through the top and install it onto our fixed mounting point on our Mazda. Okay. You'll see the fixed mounting point towards the rear here. We'll kind of line it up, and then we'll get our Allen tool and tighten it down. Once you take the roof rack and CoreBars off, you can take this piece here, pop it into place, and you can leave these on at all times. Next we'll go ahead and assemble our SkyLine Tower System for the bars.
Now, this plastic piece here, and this piece that will fit along the bar itself, that comes with the bar. We'll go ahead and pop that plastic piece onto the top of our tower. We'll make sure that our bracket here's facing the right direction, and we're going to install that to the screw at the top of the tower here. Then take our included tightening tool and tighten it down to the tower itself. Now the best thing about this tightening tool is, you're going to hear 3 or 4 clicks once it's tightened down, therefore you know you haven't over tightened it, or under tightened it.
Slide this on to our CoreBar. Now before we actually took some measurements, and this is kind of a trial and error part of it. You want to measure from the edge here to the end of the bar, and you want it to be equal on both sides when you place this onto your vehicle. We'll take our measurement real quick. All right. Then we'll make our adjustments as needed. Now that we have everything adjusted, we'll tighten this center screw here until your hear those pops. Do this on both sides. All right. Now we'll finally close up our clamps here and secure it down. You can take out these plastic pieces here and replace it with the Yakima Same Key System for additional security to lock your roof rack to your vehicle. Finally, we'll put on our end caps, and I think we'll be good to go. There you have it for the Yakima CoreBar Roof Rack System on our 2013 Mazda CX-5.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (191 Customer Reviews)
Heavy-duty crossbars mount to Yakima towers (sold separately) to create an aftermarket truck bed rack or roof rack. Top and bottom channels let you add channel-mount accessories. Tie-down points in endcaps let you easily secure cargo.Fit our Subaru Forester perfectly. Install was a breeze. For the money I wish they came with the core locks.
etrailer was a great place to order, quick and easy. Yakima products however are over priced and overly complicated.
Very nice quality towers. Very heavy duty! They have a cool "snap" on / off mechanism for quick removal and installation.
Parts arrived as advertised for the model
Car so happy to find the right fit
But super pricy for some plastic.
You guys provide great products and excellent customer service.
Thanks
At first, a little tricky to install, as the kit comes with hardware for a variety of applications (different length/size bolts, etc). But after a quick look at the directions and identifying which bolt to use for my car, install was a breeze. I love this Yakima setup because I can remove the bars/towers and leave the landing pads with a cap. Makes it great for taking the canoe out on weekend trips, but not taking the fuel-economy hit during the weekday commute to work.
These aerodynamic racks are strong and quiet and work perfectly with the adjustable supports. The T-slots allow several accessory items to be installed bith above and below the crossbars. Love them.
These adapters were easy to install and made my system fit together nicely.
Your service is nothing short of excellent! Thank you
My local vendor here in Hawaii had everything I needed for my rack install except 2 pairs of the Yakima HD Crossbars. Due to supply chain issues, it was unknown when the would come in. etrailer to the rescue. HD bars we’re in stock. Site navigation, price, checkout, and shipping were excellent. Yakima HD Crossbars are excellent. Thanks to etrailer, I was able to finish my rack project.
Yakima SkyLine Towers are well-designed and well-executed. They easily fit into the Yakima Landing Pads and form a tight fit when closed. And they also fit nicely into the Yakima JetStream Crossbars when following the Yakima instruction manual and various YouTube videos. I did run into a snag at first where I found the rubber seal on one SkyLine Tower getting caught on the JetStream Crossbar track, but after that I was careful not to let that happen with the other towers.
I find the appearance of the Yakima SkyLine Towers to match their level of quality in materials and design.
Great company. Fast delivery.
The Yakima products are doing great. Just got home yesterday from a 18 day trip using them in Michigan's upper peninsula. Love them. Great products. Thanks again.
Very good quality and not 1 missing part. Easy to install and instructions were clear.
Worked great
They fit perfectlly and solidly on my 2021 Toyota Highlander. The instructions are clear and entirely accurate.
The fit is good on the 22 Wilderness but there is definitely wind noise and I will add a diverter soon.
This part adapted like no other adapter
These really look so much better then the factory racks! Easy to install. Easy to order! Great product!
Have worked quite well for what we need. Very happy.
These Yakima HD SL adapters are necessary to connect HD crossbars with Skyline Towers. This style is somewhat difficult to locate but Etrailer had them in stock, no waiting.
Ordered the Yakima HD overhaul rack system and needed to get another set to customize my mollie gear system. Worked out great. Yakima is one of the top brands
I got my new landing pads the day they said it would arrive. The pads were in their original yakima packaging, properly packed and overboxed. I work for a logistics company so I know the importance of getting product to a customer on time and exceeding their expectations. Very well done etrailer.com! The landing pads is just part of what I needed, and with the discount code included for my next purchase, I will be back. Thanks again.
Simple installation to vehicle with supplied hardware and tools. Once these bases are installed to the vehicle, it is simple for a single person to install and remove crossbars and towers in just a couple of minutes.
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