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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 60" JetStream MD - Silver:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
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: 4.9 out of 5 stars (75 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.Fit our Subaru Forester perfectly. Install was a breeze. For the money I wish they came with the core locks.
Very nice quality towers. Very heavy duty! They have a cool "snap" on / off mechanism for quick removal and installation.
Strong, Solid Bars, Super Light, and really easy to install!
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 crossbars were easy to install and adjust. Be sure to get all the pieces you need. There is no mention of the Landing Pads necessary to use these.
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.
These really look so much better then the factory racks! Easy to install. Easy to order! Great product!
Easy to install thanks to the etrailer video. I have used the rack system on many long distance trips including driving from South Carolina to Yellowstone.
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.
Easy to install and sturdy. I carry a 9' pontoon boat on my camper shell using this rack at freeway speeds with no problems.
Yakima Roof Rack for BMWI ordered a yakima roof rack for my BMW during the mad rush of Christmas shopping and have received everything need for the assembly in a very short amount of time. I have even received follow up emails telling me the status of the shipping as well as a courtesy email. I also found that etrailer.com is also much cheaper than other retail stores such as REI. I highly recommend using etrailer.com!
Fit my nissan nv200 no problem. Comes with different size and length bolts to fit multible vehicles. Directions did tell me to use different size bolts thay clearly were the wrong ones but it was easy to figure it out. Also: u need all 3 products to complete ur roof rack system.
Happy with the purchase. Crossbars shipped and received quickly.
A rack for Porsches for lessFor those Porsche owners put off by the price of the Porsche Roof Transport System, try Yakima. For significantly less, you get a solid rack which uses your Porsche mounting points and since it is a component system, it fits both Caymans and Carreras.
My roof rack arrived as promised and in good condition. Your web site was very useful in instructing the installation and how the parts matched with my other accessories. I did have a struggle lining up the screw holes, but with patience I succeeded.
Just installed to my 08' Subaru Impreza using the factory bolting mounts. Easy setup did in about an hour or so including my Yakima High Roller bike rack. Seems sturdy, hopefully so to carry my heavy downhill mountain bike!
We bought this at the same time as a roof rack for our first family camping trip. These were really easy to install and have held up excellently in the last year.
My experience with etrailer has been excellent. There was going to be a potential delay in one of the products, but their customer service promptly informed me, half the price of some of their competitors so can't really complain. In the end they got the part ahead of schedule and was able to ship in a timely manner. I will definitely keep them in mind for future purchases.
Yakima is always great, the bars are just right for my kayaks and look great too.
No complaints! Fits seamlessly with the towers and super easy to remove and replace the bars!
looks good on car. easy install. easy on - off. looks strong. BUT incredibly noisy. I will have to buy the wind gaurd. They might as well include it because its no good without. now i will have to pay for shipping for the gaurd. I will remove it when not in use. Next life I'll try "the other guy"
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