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Heavy-duty crossbars mount to Yakima towers to create an aftermarket 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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Yakima HD Crossbars - 55" Long - Black - Qty 2: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: 4.8 out of 5 stars (181 Customer Reviews)
Heavy-duty crossbars mount to Yakima towers to create an aftermarket roof rack. Top and bottom channels let you add channel-mount accessories. Tie-down points in endcaps let you easily secure cargo.
Works perfect for our SUP with the tie down loops. Great for building materials as well. Looks great as well.
Fit our Subaru Forester perfectly. Install was a breeze. For the money I wish they came with the core locks.
I ordered the Yakima roof rack for a 2019 Hyundai Ioniq. I went with the heavy duty one for extra strength but it is quite a bit thicker, likely increasing wind noise. So I might have chosen the aerodynamic lighter weight one if I was to do it again. Also, I needed to get larger bolts for my kayak holder to get around the crossbar. The instructions and video on website were very helpful but they did not explain well how to adjust the toe and pitch. For the toe adjustment, you have to push the metal post with the tool before tightening. That was not obvious. For the pitch, it helped to do that once the towers are attached to crossbar. Then you can tilt tower while cross bar is laying flat (upside down). I ended up having to add tilt on both front and back crossbars for them to be flat when installed. Website said only front one would need to be pitched. I am very pleased with the look and sturdiness of the product. My Hyundai Dealer had zero options for this car.
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.
You sold me used equipment at new prices. What a rip off. Your company is a joke! No worries, you’ll not have to worry about screwing up another order for me in the future. I’ve learned my lesson not to deal with your customer service.
Parts arrived as advertised for the model
Car so happy to find the right fit
But super pricy for some plastic.
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.
You guys provide great products and excellent customer service.
Thanks
The customer service in ordering theses par tea was amazing!! I spoke with a wonderful specialist named Kate F, and she was super helpful and patient answering all my questions and helping me make sure I had the correct parts I needed for my type of car. The bars are very sturdy and have proven very worth the money!!
These adapters were easy to install and made my system fit together nicely.
I had a difficult time identifying whether these were the correct adapters for the rack towers that I was purchasing to fit my tracks but that has more to do with yakima doing everything a-la-cart instead of having kits that include everything you need if I hadn't already had the HD bars on my other rack and wanted to be able to transfer them to this rack I probably wouldn't have went to this expense because I think they are overpriced.AS far as etrailer is concerned I always receive great service and products and they are always well packaged and never damaged by poor delivery care and always fast delivery speed.
Your service is nothing short of excellent! Thank you
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 product and even better was the service with etrailer! These guys make it happen and delivery was super fast. Thanks for a fantastic experience, will be a return customer.
Yakima HD bars 60”
2018 Ford Expedition
Easily supports the RoofNest! The Customer Service with Roger was Excellent!
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.
Required for Yakima HD crossbars using timberland tower system.
Great company. Fast delivery.
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.
They fit perfectlly and solidly on my 2021 Toyota Highlander. The instructions are clear and entirely accurate.
The roof rack works well. The only problem I have is noise and while I'm carrying a ladder there is none. I figured if I take the ladder off I'll split a piece of pvc pipe and mount that on the front of it. But they work well for what I needed for work. The service from etrailer was excellant. I dealt with Carol and she did a very good job in helping me.
I choose etrailer simply because they mailed to APO. I’m a AD SM, and a lot of companies don’t shop to APO. As soon as I ordered my product, I received an email as a courtesy from etrailer letting me know I had an individual that would be tracking my product every step of the way, reassuring a smooth process. Their site functionality was easy, their customer service was great. I wanted to know if they had bike racks that would fit my cross bars, I got a email right away with a suggestion and a link that would fit my needs. I’ll definitely order from etrailer if I ever need to again.
The fit is good on the 22 Wilderness but there is definitely wind noise and I will add a diverter soon.
Very good product. The Yakama towers and cross bars feel very solid and appears to be high quality. Very easy install. Others have complained about the instructions, but guess I'm a visual person because the pictures all seemed very clear to me and the install was very easy. They do sit higher than I expected. After adding a Rhino Rack cargo basket, we only have about 4-5" clearance below the garage door.
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