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This sleek, aerodynamic roof rack provides space to carry gear on your vehicle. Crossbars with push-down rubber strips in top channels work with channel-mount and clamp-on accessories. Installs to fixed mounting points on your vehicle's roof.
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Hello neighbor, this is Curt at Etrailer. And today, we're gonna be taking a look at the Inno Aero Crossbars on our 2023 Toyota RAV4. Now this crossbar system is gonna be great for any time you just need that extra storage space that really you can't use inside the vehicle for. So whether you want to put a cargo box, a bike rack, a ski rack, or even a kayak rack, these crossbars are gonna be perfect for you. Now these crossbars are gonna have a capacity of 165 pounds. However, you should always pay attention to what your particular vehicle's roof capacity is because whatever the lowest tolerance is of any of the factors on your roof, that is your weight capacity.
Now, center to center, this crossbar spread having fixed mounting points is gonna be at about 33 and 3/4. So any of the roof mount accessories that you have, just make sure that that particular spread is something you could use these for. So there are two ways to mount on this bar. There is a track system here that'll allow you to mount through that. You also have a three inch clearance from the bottom of the bar to the top of the roof.
That means any rooftop accessories that you put on here that use a clamp system, it's gonna give you plenty of clearance underneath to be able to do that. Now the feet here come with keys and locks so that no one will be able to make off with your roof rack. And aesthetically, these bars are very, very pleasing to the eye on this vehicle, just with the minimal chrome that it uses on the vehicle, that little bit of touch on the end cap there really, really makes these pop, almost as if they're made for it. Now installation on these bars is very simple for the reason that these are fixed mounting points, which means it's gonna take a lot less measuring in order to get these up there. But we're gonna go ahead and show you exactly how we we inchesre able to mount these on top of the RAV4.
As you can see, we've mounted the back bar. Now the RAV4 is a little different in that the short bar actually goes to the back because of the taper of the rail. We're gonna go ahead and show you how to mount the front. So the first thing we'll want to do is expose our mounts. The way that these mount are actually in the top of the flush rail, you'll see this space right here with a little slide.
Now you can pop this out a couple of different ways. Today, we actually have this rubber tip hairpin, and all you need to do is pop it right under and out. Then you're gonna expose the mounting points for our custom mounting kit. So we're gonna start with our custom mounting kit. This particular piece here is side-specific, so pay attention whether it goes on the front or rear, right or left. This piece is actually not included in the custom mounting kit, but is included in the leg kit. And you're gonna be able to find this piece by unlocking your leg, removing the cover. We're gonna loosen this knob until it eventually falls right out. Okay, so we got the front left side right here, and what we're gonna do is just drop it right in and pop it down. We're gonna take this piece here, we're gonna drop this right in. We've got it lined up, we're gonna go ahead and drop the bolt right in, tighten it down a bit. And then we'll use our Allen wrench to get it tightened all the way. Next, we'll be mounting our foot attachment point here using the small bolts that came into the fit kit. So now we've got the custom mounting kit done on the driver's side. We're gonna do the exact same thing over here on the passenger side. So what we're gonna do next is take our crossbar, turn it over on its underside, and what we'll see there is gonna be this tab along with this slider. So we're gonna want to get this as open as possible by pushing in that tab, sliding this under until we expose this area right here. At this point, we're gonna take our foot, we're gonna use these attachments here to slide right in. We're gonna get this loosened all the way up as much as we can without disengaging it completely. So we could open this lever here. Once this lever here is open, it'll allow you to slide it all the way down and across. Now we'll go ahead and get this up on our roof and make any adjustments we need from there. Now it is good to have someone there to assist you in order to get these mounting points put in here correctly and securely. So we're gonna go ahead and send it over. So it is important to bear in mind when you're putting these on that the wider part of the bar is toward the front and more of the blade part is toward the back. We're gonna bring this right over to our mounting points. And remember, we left this loose so that we can slide it accordingly, until we get it down on our mounting points. So the way this is gonna mount is this is gonna slide right into this slide here. There's a little hook tab in the back that we're gonna wanna make sure it engages in the back and grabs onto it. So with this lever in the back disengaged, you can slide this bar back and forth to make sure you get it even on both sides. When we got it even, what we came up with on the RAV4 was about three and a quarter inches on each side. So at this point, we'll be able to tighten down our clamp and twist it in on this knob latch. We're gonna press the lever as much as we can as we tighten this up. As we start to get to the point where it's quite a bit tighter, we're gonna go ahead and use our Allen key to secure it as much as possible. Now we're gonna use our insert right into this opening here. We are gonna have some excess to it. So what we'll want do is trim that. Best way to do that is to take your knife and score it lightly to where it'll be flush, and then we're gonna remove it and take it to a safer surface to make the cut. Okay, what we'll do next is take our end cap. This tab here, you'll be able to push right in. Next thing we're gonna do is store our Allen key, which is gonna go right in here above the knob. And at that point, we're gonna reattach the plate to our feet. Now that we've got that in place, we're gonna go ahead and lock it down. So now that we've got them installed, we want to just do a good shake test on to make sure they're on their very solid, which they very much are. Now if you ever wanna remove these bars for any reason, you can do so without actually removing the custom mount kit because Inno is gonna provide you with these caps right here that you could place over those parts just to keep some debris out for the next time that you put your bars on. So that's a look at the installation of our Inno Aero Bars on this 2023 Toyota RAV4.
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