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These multipurpose, galvanized steel crossbars supply the backbone for your aftermarket roof rack system. Works with accessories that clamp around the bars. Pair with Yakima towers, fit kit, and RoundBar SL Adapter to create a complete roof rack.
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Yakima 58" RoundBar MD:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Ford Escape, we're gonna be test fitting the Yakima RoundBar roof rack system consisting of part numbers Y00408. These are the 48 inch crossbars. We'll also be using part number Y03536, which is the round bar SL adapter kit. And finally part number Y00147 and this are the TimberLine towers for the Yakima crossbar, particularly for factory raised side rails. The Yakima RoundBar roof rack system's great for carrying a wide variety of accessories on your Escape while freeing up space inside your vehicle. This can carry anything from bike racks to cargo baskets to cargo boxes.
While the round bars are both strong and durable, they will make noise while you drive. You can purchase after market fairings to cut down that wind noise and drag, which you can find on etrailer.com, or you can upgrade your bars to aero bars or to the core bars in which combine the strength of these bars with the aerodynamic shape.At the end caps here, we do have plastic knockouts that can be replaced with the Yakima same key system, which is sold separately. So that not only can you secure it to your roof rack, but you an also make the key inaudible 00:00:59 with your accessories. Next I'd like to give you a couple quick measurements. From the center of the roof to the bottom of the bars' gonna be about two and half inches, but from the center to the top is gonna be about three and a half inches.
That gives you more than enough space in between the bar and the roof to attach your accessories without making any contact. I would like to, however, advise against using your sunroof once these are installed and once your accessories are installed as well. Now, the two bars combined have the carrying capacity of 165 pounds, but you always want to double check with your vehicles manual to make sure that it can maintain those weights on the roof.Now, that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack system, let's go ahead and show you how it installs. We have our front bar already installed on our vehicle, and we have our rear bar partially assembled on our table here. So our first step is we're gonna take our adaptor kit, and we'll install it onto our tower here and then slide it out to the other end.
I would like to point out that while this does come with end caps as well, we went ahead and left them out for demonstration purposes, as once you put them in, they're pretty difficult to get back out. Our first step is we're gonna take our plastic piece and we're gonna push it into place on top of our tower. You'll hear like a click once it gets pushed into place. Open up our tower. We'll push this strap in like so.
Looking underneath to get to our bolt. Take our included tightening tool to do that. Then we'll take our round bar adaptor, push that into place. We'll tighten it down until you hear two audible clicks. Now that's the nice thing about this tightening tool. You don't over tighten anything. Isn't that cleverOkay. Now we can slide it onto our bar. Lift up our bar. We'll slide that over the end. And now we can set this on to these factory raised side rails on our vehicle. So, I'll set our rear bar into place. We're gonna make sure that the line here lines up with the top portion of our factory raised side rail. Next we'll take our measuring tape. Make sure it's even from center to center on both sides and then we'll measure for an overhang and make sure it's even on both sides as well. And then we can start tightening things down. When it comes to the measurement, you wanna make sure you don't go under 24 inches, otherwise go buy your accessory's recommendations. Alright. That looks even on both sides. Now, I'll wrap a rubber coated steel strap up underneath and tighten it down with our included tool to this bolt here. And you wanna tighten this down until you hear two or three audible clicks so you know it's completely tightened down. Now, once we've got this snug around, we'll go to the other side, snug it down. We'll also tighten this bolt down in the center . To tighten our leg or tower to our bar. And now we can install our end cap and we're ready to hit the road.And there you have it for the Yakima RoundBar roof rack system on our 2018 Ford Escape.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (282 Customer Reviews)
These multipurpose, galvanized steel crossbars supply the backbone for your aftermarket roof rack system. Works with accessories that clamp around the bars. Pair with Yakima towers, fit kit, and RoundBar SL Adapter to create a complete roof rack.Free delivery that showed up in 3 days!!! Can't beat it. The crossbars with the Control Towers and LandingPad 9 fit perfectly on my Honda Element. Had them installed in about 30 mins. Don't have my cargo box yet and wanted to test strength, so I had my 110lb wife standing on them with no issues (yes, the car was parked). Plan to take a long camping trip next week with a cargo box on top...wife will be in the vehicle:-)
Works perfectly. I am always impressed that Yakima continues to make parts for the "old roundbars" since they have since moved on to the superior JetStream bars.
Kimberly has shown that great customer service is not dead! etrailer and Kimberly are great to work with and have earned my business and will always be the 1st and last place I look for my rack+ needs!
As for the application, I needed more space to fit my cargo box on top of my 4Runner TRD Pro’s rack. I came up this this… Thank you!
A great company to do business with, and lots of merchandise in stock. I orderd a roof rack for my truck on Tuesday morning and it was on the porch when I returned from work on Thursday. I will deffinitely order more from etrailer.com
Excellent selection of rack parts. Very useful installation videos help when choosing between products. Easy ordering process. Quick delivery.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
One quick phone call and Gwendolyn figured out exactly what I needed for our new car to use my old Yakima rack.
necessary for using the widest cross bar option (78"). East to install
Love my Yakima roof rack!! It exceeds my expectations.great product. Also thank etrailer for the tec support! great staff always there to help thanks again!!
Ackage came 2 days early the install was somewhat easy (did it by myself)
Did not get to mount anything to it but seems really sturdy. One thing I can say is mark out your mounting points with provided stickers then put up and make adjustments to the roof rack.
Great first experience dealing with you guys! Shipped fast, and was a faster install. You gave me the right parts and it went together in a flash.
Will definitely be doing business with you all again.
I have been using Yakima racks for around 40 years and have never had any problems. However, I am amazed at the price increases over the years. Etrailer prices were by far lower than most. Overall, a very excellent purchase.
The rack has been so useful since I purchased it. Staff at etrailer.com were exceptionally helpful in getting the best option for my car and answering questions. I recommend this company, for its 110% customer service, excellent prices and timely delivery.
Haven’t used them yet but they should work as expected
So far so good. Purchased these towers to use on a 2022 GMC Canyon with HD bars that I already had, primarily to carry my canoe. Yakima's fitting instructions worked perfectly and the whole system seems really solid.
Kit worked perfectly on my 2021 Subaru Forester. The whole install took 30 minutes. Never been disappointed with etrailer.
Great service - great price
Great service - great price
Yakima Crossbars were as you would expect - steel bars coated in a soft black coating (be mindful when you are utilizing these with the top mounts as the clamp will eat through the soft coating when you tighten them down). I had issues with my yakima round bar setup as the brackets and tower system were allowing water to leak in. This is in no way reflective of what youll experience but Yakima has superb support. I spoke with them twice on my issue and out of their kindness they shipped me an entire setup to replace my existing one for free.
Product works as advertised thus far. When you buy the yakima towers, you are required to purchase these as well to fit the rounder bars (I feel sure there are other adapters for other bar shapes). These should have come with the towers in my opinion, and I resented having to shell out more $$ to purchase these "must have" adapters to mount my bars. 3 star overall rating based on function, price. Delivery and packaging was top-notch through etrailer.
I ordered a Yakima Roof Rack for my Toyota Prius from eTrailer.com. Part of the reason for purchasing from eTrailer.com was the promise that the racks were made specifically for the car and would not dent the roof.
I received the rack on July 31, and installed the racks on my Prius according to instructions included with the racks. Our tandem kayak is 65 lbs . The towers were placed on the outer most part of the roof as indicated by the instructions. Yakima saddles were attached to the crossbars to hold the kayak. Nothing was close or touching the top of the roof. We transported the kayak to a nearby lake, 6 miles, and back. The next day we removed the racks from the roof and noticed 4 dents on the top of the roof. It was obvious that transporting the kayak on the rack caused the dents.
We had to pay $100 to have the dents removed from the Prius roof.
I cannot continue to use this rack that puts dents in the car's roof. I was extremely disappointed in the racks. In reading the Toyota manual and contacting them by phone, there is no mention of using or not using roof racks.
I was shocked to learn from Rachel at eTrailer.com that your company takes absolutely no responsibility for this Yakima product they sell. The best they can do is to pass the buck and refer us to Yakima.
Very disappointed, and out a lot of money for a product that damages your car. Will not recommend or buy here again. eTrailer.com does not even deserve one star in this review.
Great product fast shipping
Typical Yakima cross bars. Coating is a little too easy to cut or gouge, but probably needs to be that way to get the grip it provides. Good enough solution for me, and allows me to continue to use all the attachments I've accumulated over the years that require a round bar
Great! Easy to install!
The Yakima roof rack system is an Outstanding product. I purchased the product to replace the OEM roof rack because it was too flimsy to carry the tandem bike mount and my bike. The Yakima roof rack is solid and provides me the peace of mind while hauling my bike on the roof of my car. etrailer provided the product for the best price as always.
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