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Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.
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Yakima 60" JetStream MD - Black:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today, with 2018 Ford Fusion, we're gonna be doing a test fit on the Yakima JetStream Crossbar Roof Rack System. I've already got it in place so you can get a good look. With this system, it's gonna allow you to carry bike racks, cargo carriers, kayak carriers, and more. Now this roof rack is specifically designed to fit the naked roof of your Fusion. The JetStream Crossbars are 50 inches long. You can see how they can span across the entire roof.
This is gonna allow us to carry not one but multiple accessories on our roof. Maybe you'd like to get three bike racks up here or even two kayaks. You'll notice how they have that aerodynamic shape. These are gonna be a lot quieter than your traditional round or square bars.Now they're gonna work with your standard clamp-on accessories, as well as your T-slot accessories. You always wanna remove that end cap.
Then, rather than having to trim or remove that rubber strip, that T-bolt just slides right over the top to your desired location giving you that nice clean look. The crossbars are held in place by four baseline towers. You can see here how they feature some padding. That way, they don't harm or scratch our Fusion's roof. Underneath our cover here, you can see it protects our hardware from the elements and it's gonna help the torque fit.Now, right here, you can see our base clip.
This is what attaches the baseline tower to the roof of your Fusion. It, too, is rubber coated. That way, it doesn't harm or scratch that finish. When you've got everything installed, the cover goes back on and you can even upgrade to a lock. That way, no one can remove it from your roof.
I've opened my door just to give you a shot of that base clip. Again, it is rubber coated all the way to the inside. You can see how it connects. It is specifically designed to fit your Fusion's roof. You can see when we close up our door, that seal just goes around our clip and we don't have to worry about anything getting inside.Now this roof rack system has a weight capacity of 165 pounds. You do rather wanna check with their fusions owner's manual to see if the roof can support that much weight. Now I'll give you some clearance measurements. This will give you an idea how much you've added to the roof of your Fusion. It also may help you when using those clamp-on accessories. From the top of the roof to the other side of the bar is about three and a quarter of an inch. From the top of the roof to the top of the bar is about four and three-eighths of an inch. Now that we've got all the features, I'll go ahead and show you how to get it set up.I've already got my front crossbar in place on the Fusion. Per instructions, you wanna measure up nine inches from the corner of the windshield on each side to the beginning portion of the pad here. That gives you your placement. The rear crossbar installs very similar. Let's go ahead and do it together. Now on the table, I've got one of my baseline towers already installed. We just need to repeat the same process on the side here. We'll start off by grabbing our baseline tower, and we need to remove the cover. Now the way you do this, as you squeeze in on both sides, on the top here, and then it shouldn't just come right apart just like that. We can set that aside. Then we need to open up the little gray door here.By doing so, it's going to allow us to access this bolt here. Now we need to do some assembly here on top. We'll take our plastic adapter. We'll push it in place here. Let me listen for the click that you heard there, and we'll take the metal knot. We're gonna place that right over the top of bolt. You may have to adjust that bolt a little bit. We'll hold it in place. Then we can turn it over, and begin to tighten up the screw through here. Now we don't wanna tighten it down all the way just yet. What we're looking for is for that metal piece to be flushed with the plastic adapter that we put in.Now we can put our pad on the bottom. We need to be sure that the notch portion of it is facing this direction, so away from the tower. One thing about the pad is they are numbered. They're different from the front and the rear crossbar. Since we're working with the rear crossbar, we're gonna be looking for the number three. We can line it up and push it in place. Once we got it on, we're ready to slide it on to our crossbar. Now it's easier if you turn over your crossbar. That way, you can easily see what you're doing when you're sliding in place. If you haven't removed the end cap already, go ahead and do that. Then we need to slide it into the channel here.We're looking for the metal bracket and the plastic bracket to slide into the channel. With it installed, we'll then need to set it to the correct measurement. I don't know if you can see this, but there's a scale printed on the bottom of our crossbar here. Per instructions, we'll need to set it to 39 and three quarters. Now again, this is gonna be for the rear crossbar. The front crossbar has a different measurement. You can find that located in your instructions. We'll take our tool. We'll then need to set the pitch and the toe. That's gonna be here and here. Now you'll notice that they're not labeled, but the first one here is A, second one B, and third one is C. That's for our pitch. For our toe, it's one, two, and three.How you figure that out is you wanna start from the front portion of your crossbar, which is gonna be the rounded portion of your crossroads. That's what's going to face forward. When you know that, that's how you know to start A, B, and C, and one, two, and three. This is all found in your instruction. If it's confusing, be sure and check that out. For my setting, the pitch needs to be set to C so we're going to move it to C. You can see how it kind of changes the angle of our baseline tower, so the bolt is over the line here, which is C, and we'll tighten that up. We're gonna be listening for two clicks on our tool. That's how we know it's properly torqued down.As for our toe, that just needs to be the number two, which is in the center. Again, we can tighten it down. We can replace our end cap, and hen we're ready to set it in place on our Fusion. When you set it in place, again, you wanna be sure that that rounded portion of the bar is facing forward. That's gonna be our front and we're going to gently rest it down in the general area. Per our instructions, we need to be 32 inches from the front of our front crossbar to the front of our rear crossbar. That gives us our placement. We'll go ahead and grab a tape measure and make sure we've got that right. We'll do this for both sides.Now it's time to install our clips. All of our clips are the same, front and back, so we don't need to worry about placing in the right spot. We'll lift up the gray door here and then we need to install the clip up through the bottom, and it needs to hook in place. Our hook here is actually upside down. If that happens, no big deal, just turn it over until that is on the bottom just like that. We'll take that clip, slide it in underneath until it hooks in place just like that. Go and do that for both sides. Now we need to adjust our hook towards making contact with the inside of the doorframe.You can see here how its kind of sticking out. We need to be up against our doorframe like so. So we come up to our bolt here with our included tool and turn that clockwise, and you'll see how it starts to draw in. We don't need to overdo this. We just need to make sure that it's sitting correctly so we can help along until it actually gets there. From there, we can then start tightening it up here. We wanna try to take out as much of that slack as we can on each side. That way, when we start tightening it down, everything is gonna be tightened down evenly.I've already gone ahead and done that side so I'm gonna go ahead and do a few more turns here, and then I will alternate sides and make sure that it gets done correctly. When we have just about got it nice and tight, we'll listen for that audible click in our tool and that's how we know it's properly torqued down. From there, we can close up our two gray doors, got this one here in the front, and then we've got this one here. Last thing to do is to put on our cover, but we can go ahead and close the door. It just clips on just as easy as it came off, push it in place, listen for the click and you're good to go. Once everything's assembled and installed correctly, you're ready to load up your favorite roof mount accessory and hit the road. But that's gonna complete our look, the Yakima JetStream Crossbar Roof Rack System on our 2018 Ford Fusion.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (216 Customer Reviews)
Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.Excellent solution for my 2023 Chevy Silverado. In the past, I have had rails installed on the roof of my pickup trucks, but I find the BaseLine towers to be a better solution, since they don't permanently change the truck. Plus, they are much more solid than SkyLine system on the rails.
Follow the instructions, and you can't go wrong on the self installation
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!!
Easy to install. It probably took 45min. I bought them for my 2024 Expedition to haul a canoe. I have not done that yet but I expect no issues.
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.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
product was just what I needed The folks at etrailer were extremely helpufl!!
Love it! We've made several long trips with full luggage loads.
Well packaged and on time
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.
The design of the connection seems a little sketchy to me. Hopefully I'm wrong and the design engineers have it figured out. etrailer's selection process, delivery ann installation help both online and on the phone was excellent
Your notice of schemes was a lot better than the yakima site provided. They did not suggest the scheme you did.
But when the products arrived, the instructions were by yakima. Generally worked as instructed except the tower to tower transverse mounting dimensions needed to be tweaked for a perfect fit.
Not a bad setup. I dont believe you need the 60" bars i received as they hang over the edge of your Hyundai. You need to watch your head getting in and out of your vehicle. The Jetstream crossbars are very loud at speeds over 65 mph. Im probably used to it by now, but it is definitely noticeable. Much louder than an older Rhino Rack of similar dimensions i had. Install was simple and took about 30 minutes, just take your time and measure correctly like all roof racks.
Easy to order and quick to ship. Took a bit of time to get these installed correctly so they fit just right.
Perfect fit for our car, much better than any OEM rack I've ever seen.
Great product fast shipping
Great! Easy to install!
Great service and great staff. They will have all the technical information you need.
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
Very happy with the Yakima roof top rack kit for my 2017 Ford Edge with glass roof. The instructions were a little confusing at first, but after reading through them a couple of times while working with the product they became much clearer. The Yakima fit site was helpful as well. After the initial cross bar mounting measurements and set up, attaching and detaching the racks from the roof is a very simple process.
SIMPLE & EASY1
Nicole was beyond helpful!!!
They work as advertised and have been holding up great.
I had a need for the Yakima Crossbars and Towers for my Expedition. With a short delivery time frame, I contacted etrailer knowing they are the best. Justin B. worked with me to get the correct parts then made sure that the products arrived in time, it did. The Towers, Bars and overall excellent customer service from etrailer made for a great experience. Thanks again for exceeding expectations etrailer!
Good transaction. Arrived quickly, new in box.
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