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This custom fit kit lets you mount 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 legs to your vehicle with a naked roof. Clamps mount to legs with bolts. Includes 4 clamps and 4 pads.
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Speaker 1: Today, on our 2017 Chevrolet Equinox, we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System. This is going to consist of the Rhino Rack Vortex Aero Crossbars, part number: RRVA118B-2; the Rhino Rack 2500 Series Legs, part number: RRRLKVA; and the fit kit for our Equinox, part number: DK226. Our crossbars are also available in silver, part number: RRBA118S-2.The Rhino Rack Roof Rack System is a great solution for carrying your vehicle accessories on your roof, whether those are bike racks, ski and snowboard carriers, or cargo baskets. The aerodynamic shape of our bar as well as the weatherstrip on the inside our going to help to reduce wind, noise and drag. If we unlock our end cap and remove it, we can easily remove and cut down our weather strip and replace it with channel-mounted accessories.On our end cap, we do have a plastic lock core. We can remove that and place in a metal lock core, that's going to help prevent to prevent theft and tampering of part of your roof rack system as well as any channel-mounted accessories.
The end cap on our foot pack does have metal lock core, and that's going to prevent theft and tampering of your entire roof rack system. Underneath here you'll see our fit kit, this is going to be custom-cut to our vehicle and give us a nice secure fit. Any portion that touches our vehicle, the clamp or the pad, are going to have a rubber coating to prevent any scratches or abrasions.Our roof rack system has a 165 pound weight capacity, though you do want to double check your vehicle's owner's manual to make sure your roof can withstand that much weight. It also comes with a limited lifetime warranty, and is quick and easy to install. We'll show you how to do that now.Now, everything that you see on our table is what you will need for our installation.
The only thing we've provided ourselves is a flat tape measure. We're going to get two crossbars, one of which is already on our vehicle. We'll get our key to lock down our crossbar end caps, our tool to tighten everything down, end caps for our foot pack, end caps for our crossbar, we'll get four foot packs, four pads and four clamps from our fit kit.We'll start by removing the plastic portion of our foot pack. We're going to take the pad, we're going to fit it onto the bottom, making sure that the arrow on the pad faces towards the front of our vehicle and the arrow on the plastic portion faces away from the inside of our crossbar.Next, we'll remove our bolt here in the center. We'll take our clamp and place it over the top, and tighten our bolt back down.
Now, we want to make sure we tighten this down just enough so that our clamp stays on our foot pack. We're going to slide the silver nut into our channel. Then we can take our flat tape measure and measure out the distance on the inside. With that in place, we can take our included tool and tighten it down.Now, your kit will also come with these inserts. These can actually be placed in the channel.
They also have measurements on them. You can place them in the channel and fill in that extra gap, as well as the extra gap on the outside. That's going to help to reduce wind, noise and drag. Now, we can place on our crossbar end cap and lock it into place, and we're ready to load this up onto our vehicle.Now, we can take our crossbar and we'll set it on our roof. We want to set it so that our clamps fit around our door jamb. Now, we'll measure out our cross bar's spread from the center of our front foot pack to the center of our back. We're going to measure 70 centimeters. Again, we'll do the same thing to the other side.Tighten it down so that our clamp sits just up against our door frame, or our door jamb here. We want to do the same thing on the other side, then we'll go back and forth, tightening it down evenly. Now, we'll keep tightening our clamp down until the skinnier portion of our torque tool is completely straight, like we have here. Now, we can take our end cap for our foot pack, place it on and lock it into place. Now that we have those locked into place, we're ready to load up our gear and hit the road.That's going to be our completed look at the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System on our 2017 Chevrolet Equinox.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (2699 Customer Reviews)
This custom fit kit lets you mount 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 legs to your vehicle with a naked roof. Clamps mount to legs with bolts. Includes 4 clamps and 4 pads.Perfect fit
I bough this roof rack to use with a cargo box and to carry a couple kayaks. It took me and a helper about 45 min to install and they went on without a problem. The instructions are very easy to read and follow and have good pictures to help with the location of where the rack goes. They are very sturdy and it's nice that they come with a keyed lock for security. My father claimed that this rhino rack installed in half the time his yakima rack took and this rack was similar in quality. I would recommend to anyone looking for a good roof rack.
I have owned this system for >1 year now, and it’s held out beautifully! I had my reservations, but it has been solid and sturdy over 60k miles of travel. Would 5-stars recommend this system and etrailer.
I choose to always keep it on, whether or not my topper is on- it’s chipped the paint on my car a tad and is a bit laborious to put on/take off… but overall LOVE. it has transformed my ability to travel. Good customer service from etrailer, too!
When I first opened the box there were two screws and bolts that are critical to the fastnening of the feet assembly that were simply rolling around in the box. Had these components rolled out of the box, I would have been pretty well stuck. Also the "DK" measuring chart was NOT included with the directions. I would have been unable to properly place the rack on the roof without it. However, I called E-Trailer and explained my circumstance. Nicki quickly resolved this dillemma by e-mailing me the needed info. I then completed the assembly and mounted the Rhino rack on the car roof.
I am pleased with the rack; it assembled relatively easily and fits the car well. However, E=Trailer should contact the vendor and make Rhino Rack aware of the faults I noted.
Thanks E-trailer for the superior customer support. I will return for future purchases as needed.
Sincerely,
Bob Dames
7-26-13
When we made our Chevy Equinox into our RV towed car we quickly found out we needed help from etrailer.com. From ebrakes and a baseplate to the tow bar and naked rook Rhino roof rack they were great to work with. I did all of the installation and most of it was easy. Some of it was harder so we relied on etrailer's great videos for things like installing the brake system and base plate. Everything is working great so kudos to etrailer!
These fit great for my 2010 chevy equinox, i was worried it would scratch the paint or the clamps would pinch my door frame too hard but after a year of having them installed im impressed with how well they've held up. I bought the rhino rack and yakima kayak stacker to haul 2 kayaks, over all it was a great choice.
amazing used all last summer to hold luggage as the car was full of ppl and animals. Held on great super quiet didnt even really notice it was there and now that the luggage carrier is off you can't notice it at all. Love this site made it easy to find the kit I need for the yr make and model of my suv. Can't wait to get more gear from them!
It was pretty easy to install. We were a little worried at first glance because it had the metric system but it ended up not needing any conversions. Instructions were spot on and it fit like a glove. Took less than an hour to install. Would highly recommend.
Fit perfectly 2017 Equinox. Worth the price. Just did a 1200 mile road trip. Used these parts as part of a kit. Attached a hard case cargo box and had zero issues. Directions were easy to follow.
I installed this bar kit on my Chevy Equinox 2014 to carry my paddle board and camping stuff up on the roof. It looks great and feels solid. It’s a great product. Comes with instructions and exact measurements for you car, super helpful.
Great product. Instructions are a little brief, customer service took care of that. Shout out to Korren for her help!!
Did not fit my car. Even after going through the selection process and everything.
Jenny N.
4/13/2022
You mentioned that it did not for your vehicle and I wanted to ask you a few questions. Were you using this on a 2015 Chevy Equinox with a naked roof? In what way is not fitting?
Jacob
4/13/2022
The clamps that go on the door frame did not sit right on the car.
Jenny N.
4/13/2022
Would it be possible to send a picture?
As noted in prior review very happy with the whole system. Rock solid and good quality.
Arrived quickly and everything went together as stated in the directions. I have been very satisfied with the rack and it looks and performs to my expectations. Would highly recommend for others.
I needed a product that I could trust with my kayak and this one works perfect for me, I received it fast and it didn't take long at all to install. One problem was the sizing chart for my car , it was in MM and i just went on line to change it over to inches.
Product has proven itself on several kayak trips. It is used to transport a 12 foot kayak used for fishing.
These fit well on my Equinox. Not a perfect fit, but well enough to hold.
Easy to install and worked as described.
Easy to install and perfect for my model car.
Ease of order, receipt, installation and excellent customer service is what I received in this order.
Thank you, e-trailer!
Just followed all the etrailer website prompts for my naked roof Toyota Matrix and it set me up with the three packages needed- rails legs and fitkit. Installed easily enough. I like the little arrow stickers hidden in the door jams for fast re-install later. Held two 10’ kayaks on a 2 hr journey with ease.
Pretty nice rack system. Held up to my 90lb canoe no problem. However a piece did fly off on the highway and the "locking" bar end cap can pull off super easy.
The directions were ok. There is some stuff you have to kind of figure out for yourself, mainly the roof trim. I plan to leave the rack on so I drilled theough the trim
Takes a little while to assemble the rack bars.
The stickers are great I can mark the positions after measuring the distance between the bars.
One of the screws is underneath the bar; it is hard to reach to tighten the bars.
Finally, I got the roof rack installed and it looks good.
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Renae B.
9/15/2015
I still love it! Its been on my car ever since and its sturdy as ever. It held up great even through a hard Michigan winter!