Video Transcript for Install: Custom DK Fit Kit for 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 Series Roof Rack Legs on a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu

Speaker 1: Today on our 2013 Chevrolet Malibu we'll be taking a look at and showing how to install the Rhino-Rack Roof Rack System. This is going to consist of the Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero Crossbars, part number RRVA126B-2, the Rhino-Rack 2500 Series Legs, part number RRRLKVA, and the Fit Kit for our Malibu, part number DK338.The Rhino-Rack Roof Rack System is a great solution for carrying your accessories on your roof, whether those are bike racks, ski and snowboard carriers, kayak carriers, or cargo baskets. The aerodynamic shape of our bars, along with the weather strip, are going to help to reduce wind noise and drag. If we take off our end cap, that weather strip can also easily be removed, cut down, and placed in with channel mounted accessories. The end cap on our crossbar has a plastic lock core which can easily be replaced with a metal lock core to prevent theft and tampering. The leg kit has a lockable cover which will help to prevent theft and tampering of your roof rack system as a whole.The Fit Kit itself is going to be custom cut to our vehicle to give it a nice secure fit.

It's also going to have rubber coating on any portion that touches our vehicle 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 owner's manual to make sure it can withstand that much weight. It's going to come with a limited lifetime warranty and is quick and easy to install. We'll show you how to do that now.We have our crossbar. We're going to get two of those.

We'll get an end cap key, four end caps for our crossbar, four end caps for our legs, as well as keys. Our legs, we will get four of those as well, including a tool to tighten everything down. Then we have our clamp and our pad. We'll get four of each of those for our Fit Kit. We've provided our own flat tape measure just to measure everything out.Next we're going to take our leg kit.

We're going to start by undoing our bolt here in the center. We'll take that out. We'll place our clamp over the top and tighten our bolt back down. We just want to tighten our bolt down enough so that it holds our clamp in place. Then we can flip our leg kit over.

We're going to pop off the bottom plastic piece. Making sure that the arrow on each side is facing up, we'll take that rubber pad and we're just going to close up all the holes. Make sure that our arrow faces towards our clamp. Secure that back on and we can slide this onto our crossbar. We'll slide that into place.Now we'll measure out this inside strip here. Usually with the Rhino-Rack Roof Rack Kit you'll get measuring strips that you can place inside this strip on the bottom. This is going to help to reduce wind noise and drag. It's also going to have the numbers on the bottom to measure out. You would just cut wherever you need it, place it in. Then I suggest cutting the rest of it down to fit on the outside edge. For now we're just going to use our flat tape measure and measure out to 17.8 centimeters. We'll tighten that down with our included tool. I just like to double check my measurement. We'll take our crossbar end cap, place it on, and we can lock it into place. Now we're ready to open up the doors on our vehicle and load up our crossbar.now we can take our crossbar, gently set it across the roof of our vehicle. We want to make sure that our clamps grab around the door frame here on each side. Now we can measure out our crossbar spread from the middle of the front foot pack to the middle of the back. We're going to have 70 centimeters according to our instructions. Again we'll do the same thing for the other side. Now we can tighten down our clamps. We're going to start by tightening it down so that our clamp sits just up against our door frame. Taking that included tool once again and just tightening down our bolt. Now we'll know when we have enough torque behind our bolt when the skinnier end of our torque tool is completely straight just like you see here. Now we can take our end cap for our leg kit, place it on and lock it into place, and we're ready to load up our gear and hit the road. That's going to be our completed look at the Rhino-Rack Roof Rack System on our 2013 Chevrolet Malibu.