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This aerodynamic Thule roof rack mounts flush on your roof for a sleek, factory look. Crossbars with split rubber strips in top channels work with channel-mount and clamp-on accessories. Installs on your vehicle's naked roof.
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Hello neighbor, this is Curt with etrailer and today we're gonna be taking a look at the Thule WingBar Edge roof rack and we're gonna see how it fits and how it installs on our 2020 Honda CR-V. Now a roof rack is one of the better ways to carry all those extra items that either won't fit in the vehicle with you or you don't want riding in the vehicle with you. So while the CR-V does have a decent amount of cargo room, if you have you and three other passengers with you going on a trip and everybody's got their stuff, you run outta room pretty quickly or maybe you like to take a kayak out sometimes. That's not something we could just throw in the cargo area of the CR-V. A roof rack is gonna supply that space to be able to carry those things as well as the accessories to hold them on. And in the case of the WingBar Edge, there's a couple of things to go over.
One, the WingBar Edge is a flush roof rack system, meaning that the crossbar is gonna dead end into the tower without hanging over it. Which honestly, on a vehicle like the CR-V can be kind of a good thing because of the bar placement and where these need to be, if you had a bar that overhung by a whole lot, that could cause some issues with head clearance on some of your taller passengers or you yourself if you're a taller driver. The other thing about it is that an arrow style bar, it's not a round bar, it's got a more ovular shape. This is gonna make it a lot more aerodynamic. So without all that wind and vibration and the noise that gets created by that, like by your more traditional rounder square bars, these are gonna be much quieter than those.
We also have a really accessible T slot up at the top here so that you can use any T track mounted accessories that you might find for your roof rack. Of course, any clamp mounted accessories are gonna be able to go on this just fine as well. You're gonna have a 165 pound weight capacity, however, you always wanna double check your owner's manual and see what the rooftop weight capacity is for the vehicle. Whichever number is lower, that's gonna be the amount that you can carry. Let's take a look at just how this fits on the roof of the CR-V.
First and foremost, we're gonna take a measurement of the crossbar spread and that's how far apart our crossbars are. The reason that number is so important is because rooftop accessories all have a minimum and a maximum crossbar spread where you're gonna be able to use it. So knowing your crossbar spread is important to make sure that you get the right accessories. So if we go from the middle of one bar to the middle of the next, we're right at 27-1/2 inches and that's a pretty good crossbar spread. Most crossbar are gonna be able to accommodate between that 25 and 30 inch mark.
So this is sitting right in the middle of that sweet spot. The other thing we're gonna take a look at is how much height is this gonna add to your vehicle. So if we go from the middle of the roof to the top of our second row bar here, we're at about 3-1/2 inches. So however tall your accessory is plus the vehicle height plus 3-1/2 inches, that's what you'll have in order to determine what kind of roof clearance you have, if there's any kind of low hanging clearance area like a garage door or some tree branches, anything like that. The other thing I want to take a look at too is going to be our front bar and our clearance underneath that bar, and underneath it we're gonna have about 2-1/4 inches of clearance. Now this gets a little bit tricky. If I have a rooftop accessory up here, I'm not opening my sunroof. As a matter of fact, if it pops up and slides back, you're probably gonna be coming into contact with your second bar. You could probably pop it up and leave it closed and just have it popped up to vent. That shouldn't interfere at all with our front bar. But just so you're aware when these are up top here, you might find some limitations to how you can use your sunroof. The last thing I'm gonna take a look at is just how much of our crossbar is going to be usable. The roof on the CR-V is contoured. Up at the front of the vehicle it's about that wide. It tapers as it gets to the rear. So we've got more crossbar on the front than we do on the back. I'm gonna go ahead and measure the back and that's gonna give us our usable bar space. So if I go from the end of one tower to the end of another, I come up with exactly 37 inches of bar space. And that's another thing about a flush roof rack system. They're a lot cleaner looking and more streamlined than overhanging roof racks, but what it forces you to do is put your accessories toward the middle of the vehicle. Luckily the CR-V is not that tall of a vehicle, so I'm standing in the door threshold right now. I've got no problem reaching across here, getting things in and out of maybe a roof box or a roof basket, but it is gonna be something that you kind of want to keep in mind. You won't be able to put two accessories side by side up here in all likelihood. Installation of this is simple. I'm gonna walk you through how these get installed, but it is gonna be very important that you pay very close attention to the directions. You'll find out why in just a moment. Just stick around and I'll show you exactly how to install these on your CR-V. To start off your installation you're really gonna get everything for you right out of the boxes. The only thing you're gonna wanna provide for yourself is going to be a tape measure, but as we go through our fit kit, what you'll notice is that the clamps and the rubber pads at the bottom, there's a number on each of them. It's stamped down here in the corner on the rubber pad and you'll find it stamped up here on the clips. Now on the front bar, which we've already got installed, the front pad on the driver's side is gonna be 207. It'll be 208 on the passenger and it's gonna use clips 154. We're gonna be showing you how to install the back bar. The method is exactly the same, you just wanna make sure that you got the right pads and clips. So on the driver's side we've got pad 212 and we're using clip 155. On the passenger side, pad 213 and we're using another 155 clip. Go ahead and take one of your towers and slide the end cap off just like so. When you turn it over, you're gonna see basically this plastic piece here. It's in the same shape as your pad. So what you're gonna do is press around the edges and get this secured onto your tower and I'm gonna make sure it goes all the way around and that it's flush 'cause these are contoured to fit up on your roof pretty precisely. So just another reason, make sure you got the right pad in the right place. Once we've got that secured on there, I'm gonna take my clip and that's gonna be inserted right through here and it's gonna feel like it's held up. Just push it through, you'll hear a click and it's gonna secure it into place. Do the same thing over on your passenger side tower. This is gonna be pretty important to note. There is a certain shape to these. We've got this end here that's stuck out a little further from the track. That's where the thinner side is going to go. The wider side of the bar is gonna go up here, so that's just gonna slide right into place just like that. You are gonna be stopped by this tab right here, but you could just push that in, slide it the rest of the way, and that tabs gonna pop back up inside the bar right there. Go ahead and do that same thing over on the passenger side. Next we're gonna add our weather stripping onto the bar. This will come in one piece, you'll need to go ahead and separate it. And what you'll find is you've got one of these is gonna have these little triangular arrows. The other is just going to be really just plain. So what you want do is have the arrows facing forward or the wider portion of the bar. Just kind of start on one end. And just as you go down, we're just gonna kind of depress this down into place as we go. Now we're gonna take the plain one and we're gonna fit that in really just the same way. And you're gonna have some excess on here. The weather strip is a little bit longer than the bar. I wouldn't bother with cutting any of the excess off. It's all gonna be hidden underneath our tower covers anyway, so just leave that excess there. On the tower here, just outside of the bar, we're gonna see a little scale here with all these letters, A, B, C, and hashes as well to indicate them. If you take your Thule tool, you're gonna be able to use it through this bolt here to shorten it up to the proper length and you're gonna find that proper length in your instructions. You'll find an X measurement and a Y measurement. The X measurement for the edge 'cause this is the WingBar Edge indicates at the letter B. So the front bar that we put on, we shorten this up until both the driver and the passenger side that hash butted right up against the edge of the bar for the B. For the back crossbar, that is going to be the letter P, so we're gonna have to tighten it all the way up until that hash there comes right to the edge of our tower. And we'll do that right through this bolt right here. So as you can see, it's kind of tightening up the scale. Got this just about there, that's the hash I'm looking at right there. And I'm just gonna get that hash right up to the edge of the bar. And then I'm gonna do the same thing on the opposite end. Now we've got our bar length set and the next thing my suggestion would be is that through this bolt right here go ahead and loosen that all the way up. This bolt is what's gonna shorten and lengthen your clamp. So in order to get it on the roof, just to make sure that it's gonna be able to go all the way across and this clamp isn't gonna be holding things up, I just wanna make it as loose as I can for now. With everything set, we're gonna come over here to the roof. I'm gonna feed this across to the other side. Again, just trying to make sure I clear that clamp over there. Do the same over here and get it into roughly the position that it's gonna end up being in. There's another couple of measurements that you're gonna find in your instructions. You're gonna find a W measurement and a Z measurement, and those measurements have to do with where on your roof the bars are going to be placed. So that Z measurement is gonna go from the top of your windshield to the front of our tower pad right here. And that measurement is going to end up being 11-3/8. The next measurement for the second bar is gonna go from the front of your first bar to the front of your second bar, and that's gonna be at 27-1/2 inches. So we've got that completely measured out already. And when you do that and you've got your bar length placed properly, you'll notice that the footpad and that little lift that it has behind it conforms perfectly to your roof. Now it's important to note as well, when you're doing those measurements for your bar placement on the roof, you wanna make sure those measurements match on both the passenger and the driver's side. That way we can guarantee that our towers are directly across from each other and therefore both of our crossbars are gonna be perfectly parallel. But once we've got everything placed where we need it, we're gonna use this bolt here that we loosened up over on the table. That was to basically give our clip some freedom to get down and around and underneath this lip here on our roof. And I'm gonna use that provided tool from Thule to go ahead and start tightening that up. But what I'm actually going to do is I'm just pushing up against it here and I'm just gonna turn it until it's snug. I'm not trying to tighten this up yet. I've seen it happen before where if you tighten one side down completely without doing anything to the other side, it often knocks the other side out of place and you end up having to redo everything anyway. So my suggestion would be just to get it to where it's snug, go and do the same thing on the other side. And as you tighten these down, give it three or four turns on the driver's side and then again on the passenger side and just incrementally tighten these down until they're both, you know, completely secure onto the roof. This tool from Thule actually is a torquing tool. So as you get it tightened down, once you get it tightened to the specs where Thule wants it to be, we're gonna get a loud audible pop out of the tool just like that. That indicates that everything is tightened down and secure according to Thule's specs and standards. Once that's done on both sides, go ahead and give it a nice little shake test. The vehicle's moving, my towers aren't and my bar's not sliding back and forth, so we're in really good shape. All that leaves us after that is replacing our tower covers. But before I do, I just wanted to mention something really quick. Now, when you get this initially outta the box, it's gonna provide you with these plastic lock cores. They're gonna do the job of keeping it on there, but they're not keyed. So anybody that has, you know, like a coin or a flathead screwdriver is gonna be able to twist these open and possibly make a way with your rack. My suggestion would be to take advantage of Thule's one-key system. There are metal lock cores and keys available. You can get all of your towers get locks on 'em, and you have the opportunity to get them keyed alike to other tulle accessories you may have. So if you have a Thule roof box or maybe a bike rack or anything like that with a lock on it from Thule, you have the opportunity to get your locks keyed alike to that stuff just so that you don't have, you know, a whole ring of Thule keys. Just make it a lot easier and more organized for you. But when it's time to get these back on, they really just kind of slide back on into place just like that. And if we had our lock core in at this point, we would go ahead and lock that shut. So that's really it when it comes to the Thule WingBar Edge roof rack on the 2020 Honda CR-V. And if you've got any questions about it after watching this video or if you've gotten this roof rack for your CR-V and you've got some experiences to share, go ahead and leave those in the comments below. Sharing your questions and your stories with other neighbors just like you can help them to make the best decision for themselves. Once again, this is Curt with etrailer. Thanks for stopping by.
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