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Kuat Piston SR Roof 1 Bike Rack Review - 2021 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Hey, everyone, it's Evangeline here at etrailer, and today, we're taking a look at how the Piston SR Roof-Mounted Bike Rack fits on the 2021 Volkswagen Jetta. So for your Volkswagen Jetta, it is a really nice car, especially this one, because you have that GLI and you're sporty, but your options for carrying around a bike is limited, unless you have a hitch receiver. So if you don't have a hitch receiver, then your options are a trunk mount or a roof-mounted bike rack. If possible, please get a roof-mounted bike rack instead of a trunk mount, just because it's not a hassle, it doesn't take up your trunk area, and you're not dealing with straps and hooks in contact with your vehicle. Now, this is the Piston SR, which is definitely the more premium of your roof-mounted bike racks. So a quick overview of roof-mounted bike racks is most of them require that you take the front wheel off, so they're fork-mounted bike racks, and those are cool too, but then you do take up more time having to reinstall your front wheel once you're ready to hit the trails. more
5/18/2023 2:18:25 PM
Rhino-Rack XTray Pro Cargo Basket and 2 Bike Carrier Review - 2021 Volkswagen Atlas- Video
Hey (name indistinct) here at etrailer. Today we're going to be taking a look at the Rhino Rack XTray Pro rooftop cargo basket, and how it fits on our 2021 Volkswagen Atlas. With the Atlas, we have a decent amount of storage but it doesn't come with a factory hitch on so maybe you don't feel like dealing with that. Maybe you just have some larger or messier items you would rather get up on your roof. And something unique with this basket is the fact that there are two spots for you to put the front axle of your bikes. So we can carry two bikes and some gear, just the two bikes or just the gear. more
3/13/2023 12:26:20 PM
Yakima Roof Bike Racks Review - 2021 Volkswagen Tiguan- Video
Hey everybody, welcome to etrailer.com. I'm Bobby, and today we're taking a look at the Yakima High Road Roof Mounted Bike Rack Carrier here today on our 2021 Volkswagen Tiguan. Now guys, this could be a pretty good way of giving yourself a little bike rack to put on top of your roof. Now, I will say the Tiguan already a little taller out there, right You got that mid-sized SUV look going for it. So definitely is quite high up there. I will say, probably not gonna be my first choice if I'm kind of trying to find a way of getting my bike to where I wanna go. more
9/22/2021 10:15:54 AM
Thule Roof Bike Racks Review - 2015 Volkswagen Passat- Video
Jake: Hey, guys. It's Jake here at etrailer. Today, we're going to be taking a look at and I'm going to show you some of the cool features on this Thule ThruRide Bike Rack on our 2015 Volkswagen Passat.So with your Passat, you're going to have to add a roof rack to the top of your vehicle. We do have plenty of these available here at etrailer. And it's going to mount to the front and back crossbar by a couple of bolts.This bike rack is going to support your bike by the forks on the front, so by taking the front wheel off our bike, we're able to insert our two front forks here onto this locking pin. Now, my favorite part about this bike rack has got to be that it's a no-tool installation. more
7/2/2019 1:57:20 PM
Thule Sprint Roof Bike Racks Review - 2010 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen- Video
Today on our 2010 Volkswagen Jetta Sport Wagon we'll be doing a quick test fit of the Thule Sprint Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number Th528. With a Rhino-Rack Vortex Roof Rack System installed onto our roof, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle's crossbars. Starting at the front here, we'll loosen up this speed link lever so that we can bring the rubber coated steel strap around the bar and hook it into the connection point. Then moving to the rear, we'll adjust the rear bracket as necessary, and then again bring the rubber coated steel strap around the underside of the bar. With both straps hooked in place, we'll then tighten down the speed link levers, which will bring the straps around tightly against the bar. Once everything is all tightened down and secured, we're ready to load up our bike. We'll loosen up the AccuTight knob at the front, which will extend the skewer outward. more
10/15/2014 11:45:29 AM
Thule Big Mouth Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test fitting the Thule Big Mouth Roof-Mounted Bike Rack, part number TH599XTR. With a Thule traverse track system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by first placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle's load bars. Starting at the front, we'll position the L-brackets to go around the underside of the front bar. We'll then insert the T-bolt into the slot of the L-bracket. We'll then loosely tighten the black wing nuts. We'll now move to the rear, where we will remove a wing nut to position the bracket around the underside of the rear bar. We'll then re-install our black wing nut, making sure it is loose. more
2/17/2014 1:06:08 PM
Swagman Upright Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test fitting the Swagman upright roof mounted bike rack, part number S64720. With our thule rapid traversed roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicles load bars. Starting at the front, we'll take the silver U bolts to go in the underside of the front bar and up through the predrilled holes to the front of the bike rack. We'll then take our black wing knots to thread down onto the silver U bolts. We'll then repeat the same process for the other side. Now moving through the rear of the bike rack, this time we'll take the silver U bolt and slide it down through the predrileld holes of the bike rack. We'll take the black plate to go on the underside of the rear bar and use our black wing knots to tighten it down. more
2/6/2014 3:50:03 PM
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test fitting the Swagman fork down roof mounted bike rack, part number S64710. With the thule rapid traversed roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicles load bars. Starting at the front, we'll take the silver U bolts to go on the underside of the front bar up to the predrilled holes to the front of the bike rack. We'll then take our black wing knots to thread down onto the silver U bolts. We'll repeat the same process for the other side. Now moving to the rear, we'll take the silver U bolts to go on top of the bike rack through the predrilled holes. We'll take the black plate to go on the underside of the rear bar and we'll use the black wing knots to tighten it down. more
2/6/2014 3:49:46 PM
SportRack Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta we'll be test fitting the Sportrack Roof Mounted Bike Rack, Part #SR4622. With a Thule rapid reverse roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto to the vehicles load bars. Here at the front of the bike rack, we'll take the rubber coated U-bolts to go around the underside of the front bar, up through the pre-drilled holes at the head of the bike rack. We'll then take our black wing nuts to thread down onto the U-bolt. We'll then repeat the same process for the other side. Here at the rear of the bike rack, we'll take the black bracket which will go in between the top of the rear load bar and the bottom of the bike rack. We'll then insert our black bolts through the pre-drilled holes of the bike rack and the bracket. We'll take the rubber coated steel bracket around the underside of the rear bar, making sure the bolts go through the pre-drilled holes. We'll then use the black wing nuts to thread onto the bolts and tighten it down. Now we're ready to load our bike. more
2/6/2014 3:49:22 PM
SportRack Frame Mount Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test fitting the sport rack roof mounted bike rack part number Sr4611. With the Thule rapids reverse roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle's load bars. Starting there at the front, we'll take the rubber coated U-bolts around the underside of the front bar, up through the pre-drilled holes of the bike rack. We'll then take our black ring nuts to threat down onto our U-bolts. Now moving to the rear, we'll take the thick black bracket to go in between the bottom of the bike rack and the top of the load bar. We'll then take our black bolts to go down through the pre-drilled holes of both the bike rack and the bracket. We'll then take the rubber coated steel plate to go on the underside of the rear load bar and use the wing nuts to tighten it down. Once everything is all tightened down and secured, we're ready to load up our bike. more
2/6/2014 3:48:43 PM
RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test fitting the Rockymounts TieRod roof mounted bike rack, part number RKY1014. With the Thule Rapid Traverse roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto our vehicle's load bars. We'll start off by removing the black plastic cover at the front of the bike rack and bring the rubber coated straps around the underside of the front bar. We'll then hook them into the connection points, and move to the rear of the bike rack. We'll use the included Allen wrench to remove one of the Allen bolts to position the rear bracket around the underside of the rear bar. We'll then reinstall our Allen bolt and tighten down using an Allen wrench. Moving back up to the front, we'll use the included Allen wrench to tighten down the silver bolt to tighten down the straps up against the front bar. more
2/6/2014 3:48:08 PM
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test-fitting the Rockymounts Tierod Stretch roof-mounted bike rack, part number RKY1011. With a truly rapid traverse roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test-fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicle's load bars. Starting at the front, we'll remove the black plastic cover to position the rubber-coated steel straps around the underside of the front bar. We'll then hook them into the connection points and move to the rear of the bike rack. We'll use the included allen wrench to remove one of the allen bolts to position the rear bracket around the underside of the rear bar. We'll reinstall our allen bolt and tighten it down with the allen wrench. Moving back up to the front, we'll use the included allen wrench to tighten down the silver bolt to tighten down the straps up against the front bar. Once everything is all tightened down and secured, we're ready to load up our bike. more
2/5/2014 11:34:26 AM
Kuat TRIO Roof Bike Rack Review - 2014 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test fitting the Kuat Trio Roof Mounted Bike Rack, Part #RU01. With a Thule Rapic Traverse roof rack system on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack up onto the vehicles load bars. Starting at the front, we'll take the rubber coated u-bolts to go on the underside of the front bar. They'll go up through the pre-drilled holes at the head of the bike rack. We'll then use the cylindrical black nuts to thread down onto the black u-bolts. We'll then repeat the same process for the other side. We'll then go ahead and use the included tightening tool to tighten down the nuts to secure the front part of the bike rack to the front bar. Now, moving to the rear we'll remove one of the black wing nuts and position the rear bracket on the underside of the rear bar. We'll reinstall the wing nut and tighten it down. Once everything is all tightened down and secured, we're ready to load up our bike. more
2/5/2014 11:33:58 AM
Yakima FrontLoader Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2013 Volkswagen Jetta, we will be test fitting the Yakima Frontloader wheel mounted bike rack, part number Y02103. To begin our test fit, we will place the rack directly onto our bars. We will now turn the T handle on the front of the bike rack to tighten the clamp around our front bar. We will now loosen the rear T handle, pull the clamp around our bar, insert the T bolt through the appropriate slot, and secure by tightening our T handle. We will now loosen the rear wheel strap and open up our front wheel cradle. We will now place our bike on our bike rack, sliding it forward into the front wheel cradle. We will secure the front wheel cradles by tightening the red knob. We will now move to the rear wheel and secure it with the strap. That will complete today's test fit of the Yakima Frontloader, part number Y02103, on our 2013 Volkswagen Jetta. more
1/30/2014 1:21:06 PM
Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2013 Volkswagen Jetta, we will ll be test fitting the Yakima ForkLift Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number Y02098. To begin our test fit, we will place our bike rack directly onto our bars. We will loosen the T handle, bring our clamp around our bar, insert the T bolt through the appropriate slot, and secure it by tightening the T handle. Now, we will remove our skewer, slide our slotted bracket forward to where it goes around our T handle, and reinsert our skewer being sure it goes through our slotted bracket. At the rear, we will loosen the T handle, bring our clamp around our bar, insert the T bolt through the appropriate slot, and tighten with the T handle. We will loosen our rear wheel strap and our skewer. Now, we're ready to grab our bike. We will place our bike on our rack, dropping our front fork onto our skewer. more
1/30/2014 1:19:45 PM
SportRack Frame Mount Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2013 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2013 Volkswagen Jetta, we will be test-fitting the Sportrack Roof Bike Rack part number SR4611. With the Sportrack Roof Rack, already installed on our vehicle, we will begin our test-fit by placing our bike rack directly on to our bars. At the front we will take the two rubber-coated U-bolts around the underside of our bar. Up through our front platform and secure them with the four wing nuts. At the rear, we will drop our two bolts through our platform making sure that we have one on either side of our bar. We will then take our black rubber-coated portion of our clamp bringing it around the bar being sure that two bolts go through it and then secure those with the wing nuts. more
1/29/2014 12:08:54 PM
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2010 Volkswagen Golf- Video
Today, on our 2010 Volkswagen Golf, we'll be test fitting the Rocky Mount's Tie Rod Stretch roof mounted bike rack, part number RKY1011. With the Thule Rapid Traverse roof rack system already assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike rack onto the vehicle's load bars. We'll bring the rubber coated steel straps around the underside of the front bar and move to the rear. We'll loosen up one of the Allen bolts to bring the rear bracket around the underside of the rear bar. Let's run it back through and tighten it down with a wrench. We will then move back up to the front where we will remove the black plastic cover. We'll then hook the rubber coated steel straps into the connection points, and use the Allen wrench to turn the silver bolt to tighten down the straps up against the front bar. more
9/16/2013 8:13:29 AM
Swagman Upright Roof Mounted Bike Rack Review - 2007 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2007 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test fitting the Swagman rooftop bike rack, part number S64720. With the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack system assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the bike directly onto our load bars. Here at the front platform, we'll take our U bolts, bring them up around the underside of our load bars, and tighten in place with the wing nuts. We'll do this for both sides of thefront carrier. Here at the rear, we'll take our U bolt and drop it through the top of the bike rack, placing it through the holes to make sure that it goes around our rear load bar. We'll then fit our black clamp through our U bolt and tighten it in place with two wing nuts. With the front and rear of our bike rack secured, we're now ready to undo the rear and front wheel straps and open up our frame jaws. We'll grab our bike and place it onto our bike rack. We'll secure it first by raising up our frame jaws, placing it around the lower part of our frame, and tightening it with a hand knob. more
9/13/2013 11:50:42 AM
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2007 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2007 Volkswagen Jetta we'll be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down Roof Mounted Bike Rick part number S64710. With the Thule Rapid Traverse Roof Rack System assembled on our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the Swagman Fork Down directly onto our load bars. Here at the front we'll take our U-bolts, bring them around the underside of our front load bar, and up through our front platform. Once we have those through we can then install the wingnuts to tighten them down. We'll do this for both sides of the front platform. We'll move to the rear and drop our U-bolt through the holes from the topside of our bike carrier making sure that our U-bolt goes around our rear load bar. We can then place on our black bracket and tighten in place with the wingnuts. With the front and rear secured we'll undo the rear wheel strap and make sure the skewer at the front is loose. more
9/13/2013 11:49:16 AM
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2007 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2007 Volkswagen Jetta, we'll be test-fitting the Rockymounts Tierod Stretch roof-mounted bike rack, part number rky1011. With a Tule rapid reverse roof rack system assembled onto our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the TierodStretch directly onto our load bars. Here at the front, we'll bring our rubber-coated straps around our front bar, and remove the black plastic cover. We'll fit the straps into the head of the carrier, and then tighten the Allan bolt with an Allan key, which will tighten our straps around our front bar. We can then replace the black plastic cover. Here at the rear, we'll loosen up the Allan bolts to bring our rear clamp around our rear bar. more
9/13/2013 11:47:51 AM
Swagman Fork Down Roof Bike Rack Review - 2011 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen- Video
Today on our 2011 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen, we'll be test fitting the Swagman Fork Down roof-mounted bike rack, part number S64710. With the Thule AeroBlade edge roof rack system assembled to our vehicle, we'll begin our test fit by placing the Swagman Fork Down directly onto our load bars. Here at the front, we'll want to take our U bolts, bring them around the underside of our load bar, and back up through the platform. Once we have it in place, we can secure it there and tighten it down with the wing nuts. We'll do this for both sides of the front platform. We'll move to the rear and take our U bolt and drop it through the top of the carrier, making sure it goes around our load bar, and then we can feed it through our bracket and tighten in place with our wing nuts. more
8/2/2013 7:46:11 AM
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2011 Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen- Video
Today on our 2011 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen well be test fitting the RockyMounts Tierod Stretch Roof Mounted Bike Rack, part number rky1011. With a Thule Aeroblade Edge roof rack system installed onto our vehicle, well begin our test fit by placing the Tierod directly on to our load bars. Here at the front well bring our straps around our front load bar. Well remove the black plastic cover, feed the straps into the head of the carrier, and tighten the Allen bolts with an Allen wrench. This will tighten our straps around our front part of our roof rack. We can reinstall the black plastic cover and then move to the rear. more
8/1/2013 12:54:28 PM
Thule Domestique Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Volkswagen Passat- Video
Today on our 2013 Volkswagen Passat, we'll be test fitting the Thule Domestique roof-mounted bike carrier, part number TH513. Now to begin our test fit, we'll simply place the carrier onto the vehicle's cross bars. We'll then remove the skewer at the head of the carrier to access the Allen bolts. We'll then loosen up the Allen bolts to bring that bracket around the front cross bar. We'll then reinsert the Allen bolts into the threads and tighten them down, securing the head of the carrier to the front cross bar. We will then replace the skewer once the head of the carrier is tightened down. more
4/11/2013 11:45:51 AM
RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Volkswagen Passat- Video
Today on our 2013 Volkswagen Passat, we'll be test fitting the RockyMounts TieRod roof-mounted bike carrier, part number RKY1014. Now to begin our test fit, we'll simply place the carrier onto the vehicle's cross bars. We'll then remove the front black plastic cap at the head of the carrier to allow us to bring the rubber-coated steel straps around the underside of the front cross bar. You may need to loosen up the silver bolt to give you enough slack to bring them around to hook them into the head of the carrier. Once they're hooked into position, we can use the Allen key to tighten down the silver bolt, securing the straps to the front cross bar. We can then replace the front black plastic cap at the head of the carrier. more
4/11/2013 11:43:41 AM
RockyMounts TieRod Stretch Roof Bike Rack Review - 2013 Volkswagen Passat- Video
Today on our 2013 Volkswagen Passat, well be test fitting the RockyMounts Tie Rod Stretch Roof Mounted Bike Carrier, part number RKY1011. To begin our test fit, well simply place the carrier onto the vehicles crossbars. Well then remove the black plastic cap to allow us to bring the rubber coated steel straps around the underside of the front crossbar and hook them back into the head of the carrier. Now you may need to loosen up the silver bolt to give you enough strap to come around the front crossbar. Well then use the Allen key to tighten down the straps to secure the front of the carrier to the front crossbar. Well then replace the front black plastic cap and move to the rear of the carrier. Well loosen up the Allen bolts to bring the black bracket around the rear crossbar. more
4/11/2013 11:41:52 AM
Thule Domestique Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Volkswagen Passat- Video
Today on our 2012 Volkswagen Passat, well be test fitting the Thule Domestique Fork Mount Bike Carrier, part number TH513. To being our test fit, well set the carrier on top of the crossbars; well secure the front of the carrier using the backplate underneath the crossbar and tighten it down using the Allen key. Youre going to need to take out the skewer in order to access the front two Allen bolts. Once you get that tightened down you can insert the skewer and then move to the rear of the carrier where you can swing the bracket underneath the rear crossbar and then tighten it down using the Allen Key. It is important to get the bike carrier perpendicular to the crossbars, so you can get a good solid fit to the crossbars. Once we get the carrier tightened down, were ready to load our bike. more
1/14/2013 10:32:08 AM
RockyMounts TieRod Roof Bike Rack Review - 2012 Volkswagen Jetta- Video
Today on our 2012 Volkswagen Jetta, we're going to do a test fit of the RockyMounts TieRod Bike Rack, product number RKY1014. This will be on top of our Rhino Rack Aero Bar Roof System. We've already got our bike rack set up so let's go ahead and mount it on the vehicle. To install our bike rack, we'll simply take two rubber straps, run them underneath the front bar, and then tighten them down with the Allen bolt. Once we've got the front tightened down, we'll go ahead and move to the rear attachment point using the wing nuts to tighten it down. It's best to tighten it down evenly from front to rear. more
12/7/2011 10:23:40 PM
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