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Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.
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Yakima JetStream Crossbars - 50" Long - Black - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Male: Today in our 2011 Chevrolet Malibu, we're going to be test fitting the Yakima Jetstream roof rack system, consisting of part numbers Y00425, these are the Yakima Jetstream crossbars, 50 inches long. Part number Y00146, and these are the baseline towers for the Yakima crossbars. And part number Y06127 and Y06153, these are the base clip fit kits for the vehicle and these are what clamp it onto your vehicle. We already have the front one installed, as you can see it has a nice aerodynamic shape to it. It has a carrying capacity of 220 pounds, although, you want to double check with your vehicles manufacture's instructions to make sure that your roof can withstand that kind of weight. Let's go ahead and show you how the rear one gets put on. We already have it partially assembled on our table here. Now when you first get the bars, you're actually going to see that there is a strip on the inside.
Ideally, once you have these in place and into their proper measurements you would cut the strips to length and put them in place, but for today's purposes we're just going to go ahead and leave them off. We'll first take our tower, go to this empty space here, take our plastic piece, and it just pushes into place, like so. Then we'll take our metal piece here, line it up, flip it, go to the screw in the center here, and just tighten this up . not all the way just enough . so this will fit into our bar. Because this whole section here is going to fit into the T slot at the end of our crossbar.
Go ahead and do that now. I'll loosen it up just a little bit more to make it easier to move along. Now, on the bar here, it's kind of hard to see, but there are actually these lines of measurement. You'll refer to your fit kit instructions or go on Yakima's website and find a proper measurement and align them accordingly. Once you have it to the proper measurement, then you'll tighten it down and you're hearing a couple clicks with our tightening tool here and that means that they're tightened to their proper torque. Alright, we'll go ahead and put our end cap on, and we'll go ahead and open our rear doors and set it into place. We'll set it down in a general place here, definitely not its finishing place, and we'll go ahead and measure for our crossbar spread, and that's going to be from center of the bar to center of the bar.
You'll find this in your instructions as well. Alright, with our crossbar spread set, now we'll go ahead and open our rear doors, and get ready to install our clamps. Now again as to which clamps go on the front or rear, refer to your instructions and they'll let you know. We'll open up our cover here and just push our clips into place. And if it doesn't go down all the way, you may just have to loosen it up just a little bit, like so. OK, we'll repeat this for the other side. OK, now we'll get them loosely tightened down.
This is going to be on both sides. Then we'll go back and forth, and go tighten them down for good. Alright, we'll also tighten down these top screws here. Alright, we'll continue to tighten these down. Now some things you can actually put on these roof racks, there's a lot of things. Such as bike racks, ski and snowboard carriers, cargo baskets, and closed cargo boxes, as well as water sport carriers such as for kayaks and canoes. Although, always double check your load limit to make sure you're not exceeding it. That's good. Go ahead and close that door up at the top. Same here. Then we'll just put our covers on here and that's our final step. And the nice thing about these covers here is they have plastic covers on the front which you can pop out and remove and replace with Yakima's lock core system, so you can actually prevent theft and tampering of your roof rack, once it's installed. And there you have it, for the Yakima roof rack system, on our 2011 Chevrolet Malibu.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (275 Customer Reviews)
Extremely quiet, aerodynamic crossbars attach to Yakima towers to create a stylish roof rack for your vehicle. Rubber strips in T-slots push down to load carriers or accessories - no need to trim. Full-length aluminum bars maximize carrying capacity.Super happy with my purchase from e trailers purchased yakima roof rack. Knowledgeable sales rep.Help me through the process on purchasing my roof rack Recommended to anyone quality parts
Excellent solution for my 2023 Chevy Silverado. In the past, I have had rails installed on the roof of my pickup trucks, but I find the BaseLine towers to be a better solution, since they don't permanently change the truck. Plus, they are much more solid than SkyLine system on the rails.
For a 2015 Mazda 3, 4 door sedan.
I used the 50" jetstream bars with the skyline towers and the #22 Landing Pads.
Went together easy, great quality, very solid feeling! And, easy to remove and install when needed.
Follow the instructions, and you can't go wrong on the self installation
Fit our Subaru Forester perfectly. Install was a breeze.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
Your notice of schemes was a lot better than the yakima site provided. They did not suggest the scheme you did.
But when the products arrived, the instructions were by yakima. Generally worked as instructed except the tower to tower transverse mounting dimensions needed to be tweaked for a perfect fit.
Still look and work great after a year. Fantastic investment and they didn't reduce my fuel economy. They don't produce a lot of wind noise either.
Love my Yakima roof rack!! It exceeds my expectations.great product. Also thank etrailer for the tec support! great staff always there to help thanks again!!
Ackage came 2 days early the install was somewhat easy (did it by myself)
Did not get to mount anything to it but seems really sturdy. One thing I can say is mark out your mounting points with provided stickers then put up and make adjustments to the roof rack.
Great bars and easy installation on my 2012 Prius C
I chose Yakima because I had one in the past and they were always reliable. Thule was my next choice but didn’t like the look of 53’ crossbars on my car. I really appreciated the easy to follow instruction that made installation a breeze. The kit came complete with everything I needed to install right out of the box. I purchased the 2 Hightower bike racks to go with the roof rack system and plan to safely secure both bikes for our trips. It was a bit heavier than I anticipated (combined with the bike carriers) which will hurt my MPG but having easy access to disassemble the bike carriers when not in use made it a no brained. Additionally, I love the look of the system on my car.
I waited several weeks for roof rack to arrive after ordering online. I am accustomed to Thule racks, but could not find any towers/bases to fit the 2019 Santa Fe. Once here, the Yakima rack mounted with ease and I look forward to hauling kayaks or basket on the roof.
Thank you etrailer.
The yakima jetstream crossbar looks beautiful. Quality is great. Took my vehicle for a test drive, and i didnt hear anything loose or broken from the bars. Very satisfied with the product and the instructions were great. It was my first time installing a roof rack too.
Solid build quality and easy installation on my '21 Mazda CX-5.
So far so good. Purchased these towers to use on a 2022 GMC Canyon with HD bars that I already had, primarily to carry my canoe. Yakima's fitting instructions worked perfectly and the whole system seems really solid.
The installation was super easy, and despite a long time stuck in shipping the delivery itself was extremely fast, and the package arrived in spotless condition. The manuals were very easy to follow, and the end result is absolutely amazing. I love that there's a rubber piece in the top rail that doesn't need to be cut, which makes it a very flush and smooth fit. I also love the modularity and the weight that it can handle, especially for the stuff i plan on carrying.
Well packaged and on time
Lightweight and actually quite quiet with no attachments on them. With my bike racks there is a fair amount of noise but it doesn't come from just these. Mine is on a 2011 BMW 335.
not installed yet but everything was delivered on time and in good condition
Great product. Great service.
the product was exceptional. I would recommend it to anyone, who has a vehicle with a naked roof. It is a solid as a factory installed rack. Josh went out of his way to get me a replacement torque screw driver because the first one from Yakima was working properly.
very informative and great work
Well you asked for it so;
I ordered this as part of my roof rack for a 2021 Nissan rogue. The complete roof rack set was unavailable le as one bracket was on back order and said would ship in under a month so I ordered everything else in the meantime. Little did I know it would take a over a year to get one stupid bracket and yes, I'm still waiting. I can't even return the items I bought because it's way past the 90 day policy even though they're brand new still in the box collecting dust. etrailer, this has been the worst experience I've had yet with you guys. Oh still waiting for my one bracket to complete my roof rack
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