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This custom fit kit lets you mount 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 legs to your vehicle with a naked roof. Clamps mount to legs with bolts. Includes 4 clamps and 4 pads.
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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Ram 1500 we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System. This is going to consist of the Rhino Rack Vortex Arrow Crossbars, part number RRVA150D-2, the Rhino Rack 2500 Series Legs, part number RRRLKVA, and the Fit Kit for our Ram 1500, part number DK043. Now, keep in mind that our crossbars are also available in silver, part number RRVA150S-2.The Rhino Rack Roof Rack System is a great solution for carrying your vehicle accessories on your roof, whether those are bike racks, ski and snowboard carriers, or kayak carriers. Aerodynamic shape of our bars as well as the weather strip on the inside is going to help to reduce wind noise and drag. If we remove the end cap on our crossbar, we're able to remove the weather strip on the inside of our channel, cut that down, and replace it with channel mounted accessories.Our leg kit does have the option to lock, which will help to prevent theft and tampering of our entire Roof Rack System. You will allow see our Fit Kit here is going to include the clamp, as well as the pad, and any portion that touches our vehicle is going to have a rubber coating to prevent any scratches or abrasions.
The Rhino Rack Roof Rack System has a 165 pound weight capacity, though you do want to double check your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand that much weight. It's also going to come with a limited lifetime warranty, and be quick and easy to install. We'll show you how to do that now.Now, everything that you see on our table is what we'll need to install our Roof Rack System. The only thing we're going to provide ourselves is a flat tape measure. Everything else should be included.
We're going to have our front bar already installed. We'll show you how to do the rest of our back bar. This will include an end cap for our crossbar, our leg, the end caps for our legs, the key to lock down our crossbar end cap, our keys to lock down our leg kit end cap, our included tool to tighten everything down, and then the clamp as well as the pad from our Fit Kit.To start off, we're going to take our Leg Kit as well as our Fit Kit and place them together. We'll remove the bolt from our leg. We can take our clamp and place it over where we just removed our bolts.
We can start to tighten down our bolt once again. We'll flip our Leg kit over, and we're going to remove the bottom piece. Then we'll take the pad, we place that on the bottom. We'll want to make sure that the arrow on our pad, which is right here, is facing forward on our crossbar. Once we have that placed on, we can snap it onto the bottom, and we'll place this onto our crossbar.I like to tighten down my bolt just enough so that it holds my foot pack level and it doesn't bend, but I can still move it.
Now we're going to measure out the placement for our leg. This is going to be 15.7 centimeters. That measured out, we can tighten down this bolt here. That's going to hold our leg in place. We can finish off the assembly with the placement of our crossbar end cap, and locking that into place.We've opened our vehicle doors. We're going to take our Roof Rack System, place it across our vehicle, making sure that our clamps sit around our door frame. Now we'll measure out our crossbar spread from the center of our front bar to the center of our back, and we want 75 centimeters. We'll make sure to do the same thing to the other side. Now we can tighten down our clamp, taking our tool and tightening it down so that our clamp sits just up against our door frame. Now we'll repeat this same process on the other side.We'll tighten down our bolts until the skinnier portion of our torque tool is completely straight, like we have here. Now we can take the end cap for our Leg Kit, we'll lock it into place, and we're ready to load up our accessories and hit the road. That's going to be our completed look at the Rhino Rack Roof Rack System on our 2018 Ram 1500.
Customer Satisfaction Score:
95% were satisfied with this product
5% of customers were not satisfied
Ratings & Reviews
The Rhino-Rack was shipped the next day and was received in under 4 days to my door. The E-trailer packaging was sufficient but the OEM packaging on the rails were all beat up and actually one of them appears to have been opened and possibly returned. It was missing the key for the end caps and 2 of the upper rail strips as well as had some nicks and gouges in the rail itself (appeared used).....I would have tried to return for a new one but I needed it the next day so I had to go ahead and use it against my better judgment.
The install was pretty straight forward. The first assembly took me about 30-45 minutes to assemble and mount to the vehicle. The second went much quicker after learning on the first and only took about 15 minutes.
The parts quality is very good. I would say it is on par with Thule and Yakima without question. The rack is very secure when mounted. I have this mounted on a 2015 Ram 2500 (8,300lbs) and was able to rock the entire truck side to side by the rails wit zero movement in the rails or legs.
I have not been able to use the rack yet but purchased it primarily for hauling 2 kayaks when we go RVing. I will give a follow up review after I have used them.
The Rhino-Rack was shipped the next day and was received in under 4 days to my door. The E-trailer packaging was sufficient but the OEM packaging on the rails were all beat up and actually one of them appears to have been opened and possibly returned. It was missing the key for the end caps and 2 of the upper rail strips as well as had some nicks and gouges in the rail itself (appeared used).....I would have tried to return for a new one but I needed it the next day so I had to go ahead and use it against my better judgment.
The install was pretty straight forward. The first assembly took me about 30-45 minutes to assemble and mount to the vehicle. The second went much quicker after learning on the first and only took about 15 minutes.
The parts quality is very good. I would say it is on par with Thule and Yakima without question. The rack is very secure when mounted. I have this mounted on a 2015 Ram 2500 (8,300lbs) and was able to rock the entire truck side to side by the rails wit zero movement in the rails or legs.
I have not been able to use the rack yet but purchased it primarily for hauling 2 kayaks when we go RVing. I will give a follow up review after I have used them.
The Rhino-Rack was shipped the next day and was received in under 4 days to my door. The E-trailer packaging was sufficient but the OEM packaging on the rails were all beat up and actually one of them appears to have been opened and possibly returned. It was missing the key for the end caps and 2 of the upper rail strips as well as had some nicks and gouges in the rail itself (appeared used).....I would have tried to return for a new one but I needed it the next day so I had to go ahead and use it against my better judgment.
The install was pretty straight forward. The first assembly took me about 30-45 minutes to assemble and mount to the vehicle. The second went much quicker after learning on the first and only took about 15 minutes.
The parts quality is very good. I would say it is on par with Thule and Yakima without question. The rack is very secure when mounted. I have this mounted on a 2015 Ram 2500 (8,300lbs) and was able to rock the entire truck side to side by the rails wit zero movement in the rails or legs.
I have not been able to use the rack yet but purchased it primarily for hauling 2 kayaks when we go RVing. I will give a follow up review after I have used them.
This roof rack looks nice and should do the job. It fits my Ram 1500 perfectly.
The instructions included with it are terrible. The measurement for the forward crossbar is WRONG as printed on the directions. After diligently measuring and cutting as per instructions the forward crossbar would not fit properly. After watching the video and a days worth of readjusting and fitting by trial and error the Crossbar fits properly and looks good. A two hour project became a two day project thanks to the instructions! etrailer did a nice job of shipping everything I needed in a timely manner.
Great product and excellent service. I had originally ordered the Thule rack for my truck. I had it down between the Thule and the Rhino. Long story short could not get the Thule. etrailer worked with me no problems and I said I would take the Rhino. Delivery was quicker then they had said and package came perfectly packaged. Installed the racks on my Ram crew cab and carried 3 kayaks 300 miles. The rack did great and fits well. Don't spend more than you have to.
Rhino Vortex Aero Crossbars are truly excellent. I have a set on my 2013 Charger and a set on our 2017 Ram 1500. They're strong, solid, and have essentially no wind noise. I really don't notice the difference with them on or off as far as noise is concerned. As a canoe and kayak racer, these crossbars are on my vehicle almost constantly, and they've carried my boats all over the country. No complaints at all!
Received my rack for my 2008 Mazda 6 within a week of ordering and couldn't be happier with this product. Although it took a minute to do the conversion for the measuring strips we were able to install the product under an hour. Amazing quality ad can't wait to try it out. Thank you
Great product everything fit perfectly. With the heavy duty bars almost all the hardware for anything you put on the rack is too short
If the part/model is even in the installation manual, then it would be much easier. Besides, technical writing needs to be improved.
Other than that, I think it should be fine.
Time will tell!
Shipping and customer service are awesome!
I like the product and makes my truck look nice!!! Very happy with Rhyno-rack.
The staff at etrailer are knowledgable of which product was needed for application. Very pleasurable on the phone. The rhino rack system was shipped in days.
Great system and works seamlessly with Thule Hulavator on 2018 Ram 2500. Bailey was a big help in putting the system together for me.
This rack is a great product and has worked great for the kayaks I hauled across the country over the last year. Only things I can complain about is the extra wind noise with them on, and the lack of strap anchors. Otherwise, has worked great for me.
Looks good. Fits good. Loads easy enough. I like the rear load rollers. My truck is tall and I am small. I pull the kayaks up into Thor bed and push them up the rest roller without too much difficulty. I have not traveled with them yet.
Very easy set up and installation on my 2017 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn. Love that the rack just snugs on and there is no drilling, etc…
Fast delivery everything was as is should be . Fit and quality was top notch would recommend . I used on a ram pickup for are kayaks when we tow trailer.
The Rhino Rack system I purchased did an excellent job mounting up to my Ram 1500. Directions were off it seemed in dimensions for foot placement, but after manually adjusting, they work great and looks great with my roof rack!
I wouldn’t say the install was easy, but it definitely wasn’t hard. Read the directions thoroughly, especially when you’re using the provided measuring pieces for underneath the racks. Also, take extreme care when tightening them to the vehicle. You’ll want to tighten each side evenly and it takes a bit of finesse to do so. A second set of eyes that can identify within 1/8-1/4 inch difference would be helpful for the party tightening. Other than that, product is well built and in NO WAY does it look cheap. etrailer, your tracking system is spot on. Kudos to your supply chain department. Cheers!
I received the roof rack kit sooner then expected. Everything arrived in good condition. The installation instructions where ok and the install went well. This is my 3rd order from etrailer and it will not be the last there customer service is the best I have dealt with in a long time. I have also installed the front receiver hitch the install went well and I am happy with the product
Great product...strong , easy to install and remove along with a clean appearance and No damage to vehicle.
These racks where purchased to carry two 9.5 ft kayaks on a Ram truck while towing a Fifth wheel. One year and 15,000 miles since purchasing these racks, with multiple removal /reinstallation's, in addition hauling ladders, paddle boards etc they are still like new.
I bought these to be able to haul 4 kayaks on the roof of my 2017 Ram Mega cab while pulling our fifth wheel. We have use the Rhino Rack several times including a trip from Kentucky to Montana and back with no issues. I highly recommend the Rhino Rack for extra cargo capacity on top of your pickup. The instructions were good and installation was pretty straight forward. I plan to take the system off in the winter which will be easy to do.
Product works as advertised on my 2016 Ram 1500. I used my old cross member and installed it on top of the cab to hold the front end of my tandem kayak. Awesome product.
carry my old town pdl 120 kayak on my 2014 Ram 3500 Crew cab dually. Heavy kayak. I'm a full time rider and sometimes travel hundreds of miles before stopping. Never had an issue. Front rack had a lot of wind noise but I wrapped paracord around it...problem solved. Worth the money!
Gary G.
7/21/2021
Still going strong. Just make sure you tighten periodically.
Installed this and 65" Vortex Areo crossbars on a 2015 RAM 5500 chassis cab/crew cab. It is listed to fit 1500 to 3500 RAM's and neither Rhino-Rack or etrailer would confirm it would fit the 5500. My research suggested there was not much, if any difference, between the 3500 and 5500 crew cab, so ordered it any way. Installation was relatively easy, fit seemed to be good and have made multiple 200-300 mile trips with a 75lb kayak. Good price, great customer service and fast delivery through etrailer.
Mike L.
10/6/2022
Neither Rhino-Rack nor etrailer.com have tested the roof rack on a 5500 ChassisCab, which is why we couldnt confirm the fit.
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Irv
1/17/2022
After a year and my Custom DK Fit Kit for 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 works like a charm. I’ve use it to carry my kayak, lumber, fence pipe and even an old trailer frame all while keeping my truck looking clean.