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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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Today on our 2012 Hyundai Elantra, we're going to be taking a look at the Rhino-Rack 2100 Series Roof Rack, consisting of part numbers DS126B, that's going to be the actual roof rack with the 49 inch long bars, and the 2500 series legs, and part number DK301, this is the custom fit kit for the Hyundai Elantra. The Rhino-Rack roof rack system is great for carrying a wide variety of objects on your roof and possibly freeing up some space in your car. Another nice feature about this roof rack system are these locking end caps here, so once you have this installed, it's going to be secured to your roof. The bars are nice and sturdy and have a carrying capacity of 165 pounds once you have them installed, although you always want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand that weight. Now that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack system, let's go ahead and show you how it installs. We have our front one installed, let's go ahead and finish up on the rear here. We'll first flip our bar upside down and get the proper measurement for our strips here. Now, to adjust these along our bar here, we're going to have to loosen up this screw using the included torquing tool.
Put it in there and turn it to the left to loosen it up. This will enable us to slide it to where we need. Now normally, you would have a strip that comes with it that would snap into place and you would cut it when it's at its proper measurement, but for today's purposes, we're just going to go ahead and use a measuring tape. Now, you'll find this measurement in the instructions. And we'll tighten it down.
This'll be the same measurement for the other side as well. Next, we'll install our fit kit. We'll take our rubber pad . Now these are numbered. Make sure the proper pad goes on the proper leg and always make sure that the arrow is facing out away from the center of the vehicle. On these, you'll just push into place and once those are pushed into place, we'll go ahead and install our clamp.
We'll first remove our screw here then we'll line up a clamp and reinsert our screw. We'll just get it finger tight to hold our clamp in place. Now we're ready to set this on the roof of our vehicle. Next we'll open our rear doors, just set it down in the vicinity of where our bars are going to be, then we'll measure our distance between the bars from center of the bar to center of the bar. You'll find this measurement in your instructions. Once they're even, we'll start tighting 00:02:31 them down.
We'll snug it up first against our door. We'll do this on both sides and then we'll tighten it down the rest of the way, giving about five or six turns each time when we go back and forth until it's completely tightened down. You'll know that it's tightened down because the curved portion here, once you're pushing on it and tightening it down, will actually straighten out, leading you to know it's torqued properly. With everything tightened down, our final step is to put our locking caps on. Just push them on like so and lock them into place. Now we're ready to install our accessories and hit the road. And there you have it for the Rhino-Rack 2500 Series Roof Rack on our 2012 Hyundai Elantra.
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