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This aerodynamic roof rack gives you the freedom to haul gear and cargo on your vehicle. Full-length aluminum crossbars offer plenty of space for channel mount and clamp-on accessories. Installs on your vehicle's naked roof.
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Hey everyone, Charles here at etrailer, and today we're taking a look at the Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero Crossbars with the 2500 Series Towers and a Custom Fit Kit on our 2020 Chevrolet Equinox. This roof rack is a great solution since we don't have a hitch or any raised rails to transport our extra gear, freeing up space in our vehicle. Rhino-Rack designed these bars to be aerodynamic, and that is partially due to its shape as well as the vortex strips here. They have the rubberized grooves here that allow for reduced wind drag and wind noise as well. They can carry up to 165 pounds, so just check with your vehicle's specification to make sure you can carry the extra weight. The 2500 Series Towers all come with a lock and core that are all gonna be keyed alike as well as a separate key for your endcaps as well.
The bars are made out of an aluminum, so it's gonna keep it very durable as well as weather resistant, so you can keep it on all year round. So we already installed the front rack, we're gonna do the rear together. So the first thing we wanna do is lay out everything, making sure we have all the parts, and most important thing is the fit kit, they are numbered, so they will depend on whether it goes on the front, the rear, passenger, or the driver's side, but they have arrows on both sides, so we wanna make sure that they are both facing the right direction when we snap these together. And then from there, we're just gonna clamp on the tower here, and we want the arrow facing out, so we're gonna loosen this part if it's too tight on here just so that we can slide it into the T-track system, and just make sure that you're referring to the instructions on how far you need to measure, for us, it's about 15.7 centimeters. And when we set these down, we're just gonna get our measurement from the front rack, measuring center to center, for our Equinox here, it's about 27 1/2 inches.
So after we got the A and B measurements, we just went on both sides making sure that the overhang is equal on both sides. Once that's done, we are good to install the clamps just by fitting that in there like so, and then threading the bolt into the nut here in the back, then I'm just gonna hand tighten it on both sides and then go back and forth just to tighten them equally. So using the included tool, I know that I am completely torqued down when this part of the handle becomes flat just like that. Once everything is tightened down, we are okay to place our endcaps on. And they are all keyed alike, tower to tower and endcap to endcap.
You can always purchase metal locking cores for both the endcap and the towers if you just want that extra piece of mind of having that added security, but that does it for the installation. And that does it for our look on the Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero Crossbars with the 2500 Series Towers and the Custom Fit Kit on our 2020 Chevrolet Equinox..
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