Kuat Class 4 V2 Kayak Roof Rack w/ Tie-Downs - J-Style - Folding - Universal Mount - Gray

Video Transcript for Kuat Class 4 V2 Kayak Carrier Review

Take a look at that. This is the Kuat Class 4 V2 Kayak Carrier. So it's gonna get my kayaks to where I want to be. This is definitely gonna be a premium option when it comes to all of our J-style carriers, just because it looks good and has a lot of really cool features. But at the end of the day, it's just getting my kayaks to where I really want 'em. And I also just love how it is just nice, quick and easy, so I can get on the water a little bit faster.

Comes in two different colors. So one of 'em is gonna match our NV 2.0 right here and the different colors differences is either gray or black. So you have a little bit of black right here with the little circle, just being black as well. Or you can get gray, like our NV has a little orange accent. Looks really cool to J-style carrier so you're gonna have the longer part on this side and then a little notch right here so you can load it from this side of your vehicle.

Depending on how tall it is, is gonna depend on how easy it is but we got two up there, no problem. And even without yaks on top, it looks really cool as well. A lot of good things going on with this. One thing I noticed right away when I put my kayak up there, the padding's really thick, it's really grippy. I know it's brand new when we pulled it out, but still it just has a lot of padding compared to some of the others and it's extremely solid on top of the roof which I definitely like.

The padding continues from underneath all the way to the backside to even protect the bottom of your kayak as well. It also includes the bow and stern straps which they threw in a little pad right here because there is gonna be a little bit of rubbing. But with the pad, my paint's gonna stay safe. We have two more straps in the middle for each carrier and they are both going to lock right there. If you do have another accessory like a bike rack or something, you can get the same key system to make sure that all of them are gonna have the same exact key which I think is pretty neat.

Especially if you like to just load up with the same brand of gear for all your adventures. Everybody takes their kayak down differently. What I do is start with the bow and stern. So there is gonna be a decent amount of excess strap so if you have a longer vehicle, you're gonna have plenty of strap to be able to get to that little point. We're gonna have a little cam buckle here. I'm gonna pull this through and then we can take that off right there. Let me show you where I'm tying down to my Tahoe right here. I have these little pull things right here. Go ahead and just tie those down. I'm using my hitch in the back, but if you don't have that you can go ahead and grab a little piece that goes into your hood to secure it that way. Just use your little handles on your kayak and you just wanna loop it through like we have it right here. It's the same on the back. One thing I like about the cam buckles that go around your kayak, they do have a rubber coating so even if you don't have it in the open part which is usually where I put my cams, but if it doesn't really work out like the backside over here, I don't have to worry about my kayak getting scratched up while I'm hauling. Notice these little slots right here. That's where your strap goes. So it's gonna go through those slots but it's also gonna go down below your crossbar. So don't just hook it up to this go down below your crossbar, just like I did. And once these are out I just like to just toss 'em in the back so they stay put for when I start to load. Look at all this excess strap. So regardless of what kind of kayak that you have as long as it's under 75 pounds, it's gonna work. I'm kind of on a hill and my car is relatively tall with the bigger tires that I have on here. But usually what I like to do, regardless of how tall the car is, you kind of pull it on like this, and it'll kind of fall right into you. You grab it and hit the water. And now we're ready to rip. This is what it's all about. I love getting on the yak. I got a fresh dock and I'm just not in the mood for a boat today. Wanna be more mobile. So, ah I'm gonna go grab my paddles. Well, I got my trustee rod and I got my paddles so I'm gonna get outta here. That's pretty much the main gist of it. There's a lot of different carriers on our site. I think the Kuat definitely looks the best and it just protects your stuff. There's nothing really missing when it comes to the features, what it comes with, it comes with lock straps. There's a lot of other things. So now that the kayak is off of it, I'm gonna paddle on back to the car and we can take a little closer, look at it. One thing I just noticed, it just looks so cool up there. Roof is all loaded up, but let's get a closer look at it, shall we Comparing the class 4 from Kuat to some of the others on our site, one thing I really appreciate whenever I'm trying to get our main strap on here is this little slot right here. So you just push it in like this and it's gonna stay put. So some of the other ones that are around and tubed they sometimes you go like this and it just falls to the side. It's one other thing you kind of have to mess with especially with a kayak in between you and the back where the strap goes. I definitely appreciate this little slot up here, it makes it a lot easier. The rubber on the bottom is ribbed so even if you do have a wet kayak, which odds are you do it's gonna catch a little bit easier so it's not gonna slide. And once you have it off you can go ahead and fold this down. I do really like this, cuz you can access it on both sides. Go like this and it goes right into place and locks in. So it's not gonna be flapping up and down if you're hitting bumpy stuff. Some roofs are curved and you need a little bit of adjustment to make it nice and even. This one gives us a couple different adjustment points to make sure that everything is nice and level on a roof. Kuat did a really good job with designing this. All their stuff looks really good and these look amazing as well. So I wouldn't really take these off, but if you did want to take 'em off and put 'em back on every single time you go, super quick and easy. You have this little flap right here, flip this up, flip this up, off. Put it on, put it in the slot, fold it down. Put it in the slot, fold it down, done. And we can lock these as well. So whenever you take your keys, go in here, turn it, and it's gonna lock that knob. So this thing's not gonna come out at all. Big fan of the mounting hardware. It's just a steel band, but it's coated in rubber so you don't have to worry about it scratching up your bars. And this really is the best way to get it on quick but also just protect your bars and get a nice and tight fit. I really like that. It's better than any of the knobs that you have to turn or anything like that. In a matter of seconds, it's already on your roof kind of ready to rip and then you just have to open it up with a little lever. So it's either going to stay open like this but notice right around here, there's some magnets. So when it does close, like it might pop up a little bit if you're really hitting some bumps but it's not gonna be noisy on your roof at all. Whatever kind of cross bars you have on your roof, you don't really have to worry about them not fitting the Kuat Class 3 V2 is going to fit up to four and a half inches wide. So even for your ladder racks it's most likely gonna work even with your factory bars. Anything that has a height from a half inch all the way up to two inches, it's also gonna work. But there's another thing you can do. What you can do is you can remove these two little bolts right here and then these whole entire feet are gonna come off and it does come with a T-slot kit. So if you do have arrow bars or whatever that have slots on top, it comes with it so you can mount it that way too. From the bottom of our rubber cushion here to the top of the raised arm, it's gonna be fourteen and an eighth of an inch and then from the inside of each of these peaks it's going to be nine and three eight of an inch and then on this back arm the total width of this back arm is five inches. We fit two kayaks on our roof. So from here to the farthest edge right here, it's gonna be twenty and nine sixteenth of an inch. That'll give you an idea if you're gonna have enough to fit two on your roof most likely you will. From the top of your crossbar to the top of the carrier, when it's folded up seventeen inches. From the top of your crossbar to the top when it's folded down is four inches. Fish aren't biting, so I'm going home. So let's get ready. What I do just to prepare for it so I can just throw my kayak up here right away is I take my strap, lean it through here, grab it from the other side. I try to get it somewhat even and then I take this and I go over the back side and I'll grab this later once I put my kayak up. Do that for both and grab your yak. Another thing, which makes it a little bit quicker might as well just put these on our little handles right here before we go just so you don't have to reach up. I just do this just because my car's pretty tall and rather not have to get up there and do this. So I'm gonna do it down on the ground. Quick tip for Adam. At the end of the day I just wanna go yaking. I think a lot of the J-style carriers are pretty much the same. This one looks a lot nicer, I could tell you that and it does have a lot of cool features especially just the strap up top. It just kind of makes it a little easier to load it up. But at the end of the day if you wanted to turn some heads with some nice equipment the Kuat Class 4 V2 is definitely the top of the line of what we have on our site. You made it this far on the video you're definitely on the right webpage. This is one of the nicest J-style kayak carriers we carry and it's definitely gonna be on top of my rig. So if you wanna turn some heads, go with the Kuat Class 4 V2. I'm gonna head back to the shop..