Adapting a Thule Bike Rack to a 2018 Subaru WRX with Factory Thule Crossbars
Question:
Hello, Two years ago I purchased from you a Thule roof rack for a 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer along with a Prologue bike rack TH516 and a cross bar mounted front wheel career TH593. The roof rack is a square load bar THLB50. These systems are awesome and I love how well they function. But I recently purchased a 2018 Subaru WRX and included an installed Thule roof rack from the Subaru accessories catalogue. It is some type of Thule aero bar - elliptical, like a wing - with rubber channel covers on the top of each bar. The wheel career does adapt to the new aero bars on the WRX. I would really like to continue using the Prologue bike rack I purchased from you, but what I cant figure out is if the XADAPT9 or some other adapter will work to adapt the Prologue to the Thule/Subaru aero roof rack cross bars. Any help you can give me is appreciated. Thank you very much
asked by: Chris L
Helpful Expert Reply:
The crossbars on your new 2018 Subaru WRX should be an AeroBlade Edge kit, like part # TH7062-TH7603. For any future accessories, you'll want to look for those that fit the Thule AeroBlade type bars.
In the case of the Prologue, you're right on in that the XAdapt 9 kit, part # THXADAPT9 is the correct kit to adjust the Prologue to working on the Thule AeroBlade bars.
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