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Rhino Rack Roof Basket Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Speaker 1: Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be test fitting the Rhino-Rack XTray Pro Cargo Basket and 2 Bike Carrier, part number RRRMCB03.This measures 58" long by 43" wide, so there's plenty of space on the interior of the basket to store a lot of gear, anything from your luggage to your sporting goods equipment to your camping gear, plus there are two thru axle mounts up at the front here to carry up to two bikes. This does have a carrying capacity of 165 pounds, but you always want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can take those weights. We already have it partially installed on our roof here. I want to show you the rest of the process. It does come with all hardware necessary to tighten it down.How we start there's going to be this plastic bracket that we've already installed here that goes in between your roof rack system and the cargo basket itself. On top of that, we have this metal bracket that's going to kind of push into place here like so.



Kuat Roof Basket Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Speaker 1: Today on our 2014, Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're gonna be test fitting Kuat Vagabond X Roof Cargo Basket and Tube Bike Carrier, part number VX201. This measure 52 inches long by 41 inches wide, so there's plenty of space to store your gear that you wanna keep out from inside the vehicle. It does have two fork mounts up at the front, so, you can store your bikes up on the roof of your vehicle as well without having to sacrifice the space that you would need for an additional bike rack.It has a nice aerodynamic shape, and that coupled with the fairing that's installed on the front, that's gonna help cut down the wind noise and drag while you drive, although there still would be some noise eventually. Also, it leave you the option, you can remove this section here and add an extended piece to add more space to your actual cargo basket if you need to. This is sold separately. You can find it on eTrailer.com.It's not gonna affect anything with our antenna like you see here.



Malone Roof Basket Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Today on our 2014 Subaru XV CrossTrek we're going to be test fitting the Malone Katahdin roof cargo basket, part number MPG311. This measures 61 inches long by 38 inches wide, and has a carrying capacity of about 165 pounds, although you always want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights. It's very easy to install. It simply claps around the roof rack system on your vehicle. Right now we have it around arrow bars, but this will also work with square, round, elliptical, and some factory roof racks as well. Let's go ahead and show you it installs. We left one open, grab our clamps here.



Rhino Rack Roof Basket Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're doing a test fit of the Rhino-Rack roof-mounted cargo basket. That part number is RMCV. This is 47 inches long by 35 inches wide, and has a 165-pound weight capacity. We already have three of our four feet secured down. We're going to show you how we secure our back one down. We've got one of our spacers in place here.



Rhino Rack Roof Basket Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be test fitting the Rhino-Rack Rooftop Cargo Basket, part number RMCB02. This is 57 inches long by 42 inches wide by 5 7/8 inches tall, with interior dimensions of 53 inches by 39 1/4 inches on the inside. This does have a 165 pounds of carrying capacity, although you want to double-check with your vehicle's manufacturer's manual to make sure they can withstand that kind of weight up on the top. The mounting kit, here at the roof rack, they fit a wide variety of bars, anything from arrow, elliptical, round, square, or even some factory crossbars. This will not work, though, with the Rhino Rack heavy duty bars. It simply just wraps around here. It has this nice padded bottom, here, so your roof rack won't get scratched up once it gets installed. Then we have this plate and 2 screws up at the top, and that secures it to your roof rack. This is going to be great for storing your camping, your sporting goods gear or your luggage or anything wet to keep it out of the vehicle and make more space for you and your family as you travel.



Thule Roof Basket Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek, we're going to be test fitting the Thule Canyon XT roof-mounted cargo basket, part number TH859XT. This measures about 49 inches long by 40 inches wide by 6 inches tall at its highest point. It also has a carrying capacity of 150 pounds, although you want to double check with your vehicles manual to make sure your roof can withstand that kind of weight. Coming to the back here, with where it's mounted, we're not going to have any clearance issues with our hatch and the cargo basket itself. Now, how this clamps on, we actually have these metal u-bolts here that will clamp around your factory or your aftermarket roof rack. This can fit around a wide variety of bars from aero to elliptical to factory to round or square. You may have to ...



Curt Roof Basket Review - 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek

Today on our 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek we're going to be test fitting the Curt Roof Mounted Cargo Basket, part number C18115. This is 41 and 1/2 inches long by 37 inches wide, and 4 inches tall, and has a carrying capacity of 150 pounds. Although you want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your vehicle can withstand that kind of weight on its roof, as well as the carrying capacity of our aftermarket roof rack. It has a fairing screwed to the front here, that's going to cut down the wind noise and drag while you're driving. Let's go ahead and show you how it attaches. We already have almost all of the mounting points installed, except for this last one here on the driver's side. How it works is this plastic piece here is going to snap into the actual carrier itself, then we'll take this metal plate which sets on top, then take our u-bolt with this rubber coating on it so it won't scratch up your roof rack.





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