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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 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, we're going to be test-fitting the Rhinorack Vortex Aero roof rack system, comprised of part numbers RRVA137B-2. These are the Vortex Aero crossbars, 54 inches long. These also come in silver as part number RRVA137S-2. We'll also be using part number RRRLKVA. These are the 2500 series legs for the Vortex Aero crossbars. Finally, part number DK360, and this is the custom fit kit for the Hyundai Santa Fe.The Rhinorack Vortex Aero roof rack system is great for carrying a wide variety of accessories on Hyundai Santa Fe, for freeing up space inside your vehicle.
These can carry anything from bike racks, to cargo baskets, to cargo boxes, to even ski and snowboard carriers. The bars do have an aerodynamic shape to them, and that coupled with the Vortex Aero strip as well as the strip that you put underneath, that's going to cut down the wind noise and drag while you drive, eliminating the need for any fairings that you might need for square or round bars. The end caps are lockable with this plastic tool, and once removed, you can see that you can use T-Track accessories with this by simply removing the strip to a point, cutting it to length, putting your T-Track accessory in place, and then replacing the strip itself.If you wanted to, you can replace this plastic piece at the end with a lock that is sold separately, and you can find this on etrailer.com. Our end caps are lockable, so these are secured to your roof once they're installed. A downside to that if you wanted to make these keyed alike with the accessories that you have, you would have to replace the lock that's already there with something else.
It's very easy to install. It just simply clamps into place with the screw up at the top and does come with the tools to do so.From the center of the roof to the top of our bar, that's going to be about four and a quarter inches tall. Also, the two bars combined have a carrying capacity of 165 pounds, but you always want to double-check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights.Now that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack system, let's go ahead and show you how we install it. We've already installed our front bar on to our vehicle. We have our rear bar partially assembled on our table, here.
In front, you'll see the 2500 series leg, the fit kit, the measuring strip for the bar, the two end caps for the bar, as well the keys to lock and unlock them, our included tightening tool, and the end cap, and end cap locking tool as well.Our first step is we're going to take our leg and install it on the other end here. First we'll flip. The bar upside down just makes it a little bit easier to install this. We'll take our leg, and this metal piece here on the top, that's going to slide into the track underneath, here, like so. For the measurement in between here, you'll find that in your instructions.
Then you'll take this strip, you'll cut it to length and put that in place and slide it up to the location and tighten it down. For demonstration purposes, we'll just measure it out because we don't want to cut this right now.We'll take our included tool, tighten the screw in the center here all the way until it's not going to move. Then, of course, you would cut your strip to length and put that in place as well. Next, we'll install our rubber footpad, making sure our number and the arrow are facing the proper direction. To do that, you just simply look in the instructions and it'll let you know. This just pushes into place, kind of a friction fit. Our final step is to install our clamp. We'll remove our screw here at the top, and we'll bring our clamp into place. We'll just loosely tighten this up because we just want to hold it in while we put this on our roof. Alright Finally, we can install our end cap here since we don't have to tighten anything else down, and secure that into place as well. Now we can set this on our roof.The reason why we installed our front bar first is you have to use that as a point of reference when you're measuring out your crossbar spread. So we assembled it just like you saw on the table, and then we measured back from the center of the door jamb to the center of the bar. Now, with our rear bar in place, we'll go from center to center there, and get it in it's proper position. We'll do this on both sides as well. We'll continue to tighten it down with our included tool, here, giving about five turns to each side until it's completely tightened down. With our tool here, you see it has a bend. Once that straightens out as you tighten it, that means it's torqued to its proper specification, like so.Our final step is to put our end caps into place and lock them in, and there you have it for the Rhinorack Vortex Aero roof rack system on our 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (3466 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.
Overall, happy with the product. I found that every few days after long drives the roof clamps loosen slightly and need to be re-tightened, depending on your load. When first installing the roof clamps, one of the clamps had a small metal bur on the edge (manufacturing defect) which left a nice sized scratch in the roof. Other than that, the rack has been a good product for the price.
Terrible product! I had to tighten the piss out of the clamps just to get the doors to shut. But the window frames were pushed out. So I had to adjust all the striker pins in the door jams down. But the weather strip does not form fit around the clamps and now there's terrible wind noise. If you have a naked roof, get the factory rails. Taking these back off.
We installed our Vortex Aero rack on a 2013 Santa Fe Sport. The instructions were easy to understand, and it took me and my husband about an hour to install. The rack looks great on our car. The etrailer customer service has been a great help. There is never any wait when calling them, and they are always helpful. We are very happy with the roof rack and with the etrailer team.
I have to say that I was hesitant ordering from a company that of which we had never heard, but we did anyway. Fabulous decision! Shipping was fast. Company to consumer communication was right on the money. These took no time to install in addition to the crossbars we ordered. They fit on my SantaFe sport 2013 with panoramic sunroof fabulously. Looks just like the video vehicle. Bought them for a couple of ten foot kayaks. No slipping or shifting. Went up to 60mph. If you are hesitant, don't be. My husband and I are thrilled with our purchase! We have even been return customers!
The roof rack works great and is easy to put on and take off the Santa Fe. We attach our luggage carrier on it for trips and when we take our daughter to college and bring her stuff home. It increases our space so we can carry more.
Awesome roof rack! I got it to haul my kayak around. The rack is super solid and so easy to install. I was planning on taking it off when not using it but once I realized there is zero wind noise from it I am just going to leave it on, looks good on vehicle too!
The rack and crossbars were easy to install using the instructions and videos, great product, very happy we got them.
Great rack!!!! Strong well built and the locks are high quality.
Very nice rack, but the measurements for the width of the rack are off for my 2013 Santa Fe. Would be nice if the all the measurements (not just the separation distance on the roof) were in both mm and inches. Otherwise it appears to be a very solid rack and easy to install and uninstall once the widths were adjusted properly.
Perfect fit on my 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport
I've never had any problems with it. I don't use it very often, but it stays on all the time. I have no complaints.
The product is what I expected! Received in good time however it took me some time to assemble. A set up video would be super helpful since I'm more of a visual learner, something to keep in mind.
Easy install!
Item as described, fast shipping. great customer service. very happy.
Ease of order, receipt, installation and excellent customer service is what I received in this order.
Thank you, e-trailer!
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.
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
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