Thule WingBar Evo Roof Rack for Naked Roofs - Aluminum - Silver - Qty 2
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When you’re driving long stretches with gear overhead, wind noise can wear on you. The Thule WingBar Evo crossbars have an aero-style shape that helps reduce that whistling and vibration. The split rubber strips in the top channels also close around your mounts to seal off airflow, keeping things quieter and smoother on the road. It’s a simple design that makes highway drives feel more relaxed.
Whether it’s kayaks for a weekend paddle or a cargo box full of camping gear, these bars are built to handle it. With a 165-lb weight capacity, you can load them up with confidence—just be sure to follow your vehicle’s maximum roof load limit. The two aluminum crossbars measure 53" long x 3-1/8" wide x 1" tall, giving you plenty of space for watersport, snow, or cargo carriers without feeling cramped.
Installing accessories doesn’t have to turn into a cutting project. The top channels on these bars are lined with split strips that let you easily slide your mounts into place—no trimming or measuring needed. Once your gear is on, the strips close back up around the mounts to help reduce vibration and protect the channel from dirt and weather.
This setup includes everything you need for a stable roof rack system—two WingBar Evo crossbars, four Evo Clamp feet, and a custom fit kit designed for proper mounting on a naked roof. It’s built for a tight fit that stays put under load. Add Thule One-Key System locks (sold separately) if you want to secure the bars and any channel-mount accessories when you park overnight.
The aluminum build keeps weight down while providing strength that resists rust and corrosion over time. The silver finish looks clean and professional, whether you’re hauling watercraft or heading cross-country with a roof box. With Thule’s limited lifetime warranty behind it, this rack is made to stay part of your adventures for years to come.
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Hi, I'm Daniel with etrailer, and today we're gonna take a look at, and I'm gonna show how to install the Thule WingBar Evo Roof Rack. This will come in a black and a silver. That's gonna be on our 2022 Honda CR-V. A roof rack is a great way to add accessories on the top of your roof, so if you're running out of room inside, you can put a cargo box like we have today. You can also use a roof rack for bike racks, kayaks, skis, snowboards, really, sky's the limit. Anything that is compatible to fit on your roof rack.
You can use clamp-on accessories like our cargo box has, or your T-slot accessories, and those are really easy to use on the end here. This will flip over, and you can use your T-slot accessory, slide that in, and you won't have to cut the weather stripping. It's already integrated, it's split, so you're not having to worry about anything. So this is really nice if you have multiple accessories so you're not having to cut that weather stripping per accessory. Some people just get roof racks for the aesthetic, I personally really like how it looks on vehicles.
It looks like they're adventure-ready. Now these are gonna be set at a certain distance, so they're gonna have to live here on your CR-V, it's gonna be about 27 1/2 inches from each other. So keep that in mind if you need to move these for certain accessories. Now some people are worried about wind noise, it sounds like a wind tunnel or whistling, but that's what the weather stripping is for. So up top, it's all the way down on both sides.
There's no gaps, so no wind can get in there and make any noise. These bars are 53 inches long, and I'll get you a measurement of the overhang, 'cause they do overhang a little bit. Looks like the front is about 2 1/4, and the back's a little bit more, and that's at 3 1/2. So a little overhang is actually good for some accessories like kayaks, where you're gonna have those pretty close to the edge, so it's easier to unload and load those on. Now, I'll get you a couple clearance measurements.
So from the top of the roof to the bottom of our bars, that's gonna be about 2 1/2. So that'll help you determine, if you have certain clamp-on accessories, if those can fit. And from the bottom, to the roof, to the top of our bar is gonna be about four inches. So that measurement's gonna help you determine if you can pull in and out of garages, if maybe you have a larger cargo box up here, you just add the height of the cargo box to that four inches, and that's gonna be the total height that sticks up. And we can actually still use our sunroof, so I'll hit that. And as you can see, it doesn't lift up at all, it just slides directly back. So even if you do have those clamp-on accessories, that's not gonna interfere. This roof rack does have a max weight capacity of 165 pounds, but you always check your owner's manual and make sure your roof can handle that much weight. Now a little upgrade you can do, is you can get metal cores instead of these plastic ones. You can lock these with a coin or flathead, but if you change 'em out to metals, that's a more of a deterrent. I really like the fit kit that comes with these, it fits right to the contour of your Honda, and I personally really like the Thule, I think it is the easiest to install, and it looks the best for what you get. So if you have any questions about which one's gonna work best with your Honda, please feel free to reach out and we'd be happy to point you in the right direction. Now if you're wondering how to put these on, follow along, and in this video, I'll show you how to do it. First thing we wanna do is set up our crossbar. We already set up the front, so we'll show you how to do the rear. I'll flip this over. This has scales built in, and in your instructions, it's going to tell you what this measurement should be. And ours for the rear is gonna be 40 1/2, so we'll set that on both sides. I'll take our custom fit kit, and get this installed in our towers. There are gonna be numbers printed on those, and they're gonna be side-specific. So check your instructions, make sure you're putting this together correctly. So that will slide in in there, there's actually hooks, so if you can't pull it out, that means that is properly in there. And then these also have numbers on them, just make sure you're grabbing the right one. We'll put this rubber pad right on here. To put the towers in this groove, you wanna push on these two silver buttons. Now we can slide this in, and butt it right up against to that ruler. Now you just wanna do that to your other side, and now we can put the end caps in place. Now we can lift our bar up on our roof, and the thicker part of the bar, that's gonna be facing forward, and get it roughly where we want it, and how we got that front measurement, it's gonna be from the top of our windshield to the end of our tower, and it should be 11 3/8. From the front of our front bar to the front of our rear bar, it's gonna be 27 1/2. I'll scoot this over, and I'll do this on both sides, just so we make sure this is nice and square. You can take the included tool that comes in your kit, and get everything tightened up. And when you're tightening this, just make sure that that rubber pad is nice and flush. And I am gonna tighten this just so it's snug, and then I'll do the same thing on the other side, and go back and forth until these are torqued down. And to torque these down, it is gonna be to three newton-meters, it's stamped right there, but the tool will actually click when you're there. (tool clicking) I like that, and once you've done that, we can pop the cover back on. And we can lock these on with a flathead, or if you have a coin, you can do that. And yeah, that won't come off. With that done, you can start putting accessories on your Thule roof rack on your 2022 Honda CR-V.
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Shelly
5/20/2025
Continues to work out fine. We still only use it once a year. It was a lot of work to install properly, plus we have locks on it so we dont take it down.