Malone Roof Rack Review - 2014 Cadillac SRX- Video

Speaker 1: Today in our 2014 Cadillac SRX, we're gonna be test fitting the Malone steel top roof rack system consisting of part number MPG202, and that does include both bars. These bars are 58 inches long, and this install will also apply to MPG201, which are the 50 inch crossbars, as well. This is a great, sturdy roof rack system that can carry a wide variety of accessories ranging from bike racks, to cargo baskets, to cargo boxes. These are square bars, so they will make noise while you travel, although there are fairings that you can purchase at etrailer.com to attach to the bars that act as kind of a wind deflector and will quiet down that ride as you drive.While these are square bars, you cannot you T-track accessories with this, but anything that can clamp or strap around the bars is fair game. These are designed to attach to your factory raised side rails and they clamp around from both sides, tightening into place, and on the end caps here, they do come with keys and locks to help secure this to your vehicle once it's installed.How we got the front bars in position, we picked a spot up at the front here and measured back to the front of our tower here on both sides, and then tightened it down. Since these ... more

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10/18/2018 8:28:38 AM

Thule Roof Rack Review - 2014 Cadillac SRX- Video

Speaker 1: Today in our 2014 Cadillac SRX, we're gonna be test fitting the Thule AeroBlade Edge roof rack system. This is gonna consist of part numbers TH7503-TH7503, and those are the AeroBldade Edge cross bars. These also come in black as part number TH7503B-TH7503B.This is a great roof rack system that can carry a wide variety of accessories. Ranging from bike racks to cargo baskets, or to cargo boxes. We can also carry ski and snowboard carriers as well as kayak carriers. They have a nice factory style look thanks to this flush mount design of these racks and how it wraps around your factory raised side rails.The bars themselves have a nice aerodynamic shape to them and that's gonna help cut down wind noise and drag while you drive, and make a little bit of a quieter ride. more

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10/18/2018 8:28:02 AM

Rhino Rack Roof Rack Review - 2014 Cadillac SRX- Video

Speaker 1: Today on our 2014 Cadillac SRX we are going to be test fitting the Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system consisting of part numbers RRVA 118b-2. These are the vortex aero crossbars 46 inches long. These also come in silver, part number RRVA 118s-2.To hold them in place we have the SX series legs for the factory raised side rails. Meaning, this is the style that clamps on both sides and holds them in place on your factory raised side rails.This is a great roof rack system that can carry a wide variety of accessories ranging from bike racks to cargo baskets, to cargo boxes. It has a nice air dynamic shape to it, with this elliptical shape and that's going to help cut down the wind noise and drag while you drive.Removing our end cap here, we do have a plastic lock that its in place and it does come with a tool to loosen it up. You can see that we can utilize T-track accessories with this by removing the strip, placing in your T-track accessories and then cutting the strip to length around it.Also at the end caps here, these plastic locks can be removed and replaced with a regular lock that you can find on etrailer.com to secure both your roof rack to your factory raised side rails but as well to secure your T-track accessories as well since they can't remove them without removing the end cap.The SX series leg, as I said, clamps around both sides of our factory raised side rail, and where it does make contact there's sufficient patting to make sure that there's no scratches or abrasions while you're installing it.How we got our first bar in position, we picked a spot at the front here and just measured back on the same distance, both sides, to make sure that it was even. more

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10/18/2018 8:27:37 AM

Yakima Roof Rack Review - 2018 Cadillac XT5- Video

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Cadillac XT5 we're going to be test fitting the Yakima Round Bar Roof Rack System, consisting of part numbers Y00408. These are the 48" crossbars for the roof rack system. Part number Y00148, these are the SkyLine Towers for the fixed mounting point. Part number Y03536, this is the SL Adaptor for roof rack towers, to the roof rack bars, and finally, part number Y00245, and this is the Landing Pad that sits on top of your flush mount side rails here, and everything connects to.Now this is a great roof rack system to carry a wide variety of accessories, such as bike racks, cargo baskets or cargo boxes. These are particularly sturdy bars, that have a high weight capacity, although they cannot be used with T Track accessories. They're also going to produce quite a bit of noise while you drive, however Yakima does have fairings that they sell online separately, to take down that wind noise and drag. more

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5/31/2018 9:47:43 AM

Yakima Roof Rack Review - 2018 Cadillac XT5 Y00148- Video

Speaker 1: Today with our 2018 Cadillac XD5 we're gonna be test fitting the Yakima jet stream roof rack system. This consists of parts numbers Y00425, these are the jet stream cross bars, 50 inches long, and these do also come in silver. We'll also be using part number Y00148, these are these skyline towers that fit into these fixed mounts. Finally part number Y00245, and these are the landing pads specifically for the skyline towers and for the Cadillac XD5.Now this roof rack system is great for carrying a wide variety of accessories on your roof and it frees up space inside your Cadillac. This can carry anything from bike racks, to cargo baskets, to cargo boxes, to ski and snow board carriers. This does have a nice aerodynamic shape to it, and that coupled with rubber strip up at the top as well as the rubber strip that you cut to length underneath, that'll help cut down the wind noise and drag while you drive and make it a lot quieter for you.Remove the end cap here, you can see that you can use T track accessories with this roof rack system. more

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5/31/2018 9:47:10 AM

Rhino Rack Roof Rack Review - 2013 Cadillac SRX- Video

Today, on our 2013 Cadillac SRX, we will be test fitting the Rhino-Rack roof rack using part numbers RRVA118B-2 for the vortex crossbars, front and rear, and part number RRSX001 for the rail leg kit as you can see here. To begin our test fit I will go ahead and show you how to slide this onto our crossbar. You'll want to make sure that this is face up like this and it feeds in through the notch part like that. We'll go ahead and feed that through. It should slide, there we go, slide right on in. We're going to go ahead and leave our end-cap off for now, that way we can access or tightening device inside. With our front crossbar already installed on our vehicle we can go ahead and throw this over top and set it on our factory raised rails there. Now for our front bar, I've already pushed that all the way up as far as it will go on both sides. So we've got that fixed up there and that way we can have a full adjustment of our load bar in back. more

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2/18/2015 3:02:25 AM

Thule AeroBlade Crossroad Roof Rack Installation - 2011 Cadillac SRX- Video

Today, on our 2011, Cadillac SRX, we'll be test fitting the Thule Rapid Crossroads Roof Rack System, part numbers THARB47 and TH450R. We'll begin our test fit by placing the front load bar onto the front of our roof. We'll place the front load bar as far up as possible next to where the raised side rails are flush up against the roof. We'll use this connection point to make sure that the front load bar is perpendicular to the roof and that it is even on both sides. Once we've established this position, we can then pop off the end caps to bring the rubber coated seal straps around the underside of our raised side rails. We'll then hook them back into position and use the included tensioning tool to turn the black bolt to bring the straps up around tightly against the load bar. more

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7/5/2013 2:43:41 AM

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