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This sleek, aerodynamic roof rack provides space to carry gear on your vehicle. Crossbars with push-down rubber strips in top channels work with channel-mount and clamp-on accessories. Installs to raised rails on your vehicle's roof.
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Hi, everyone. It's Evey Angelina, right here at etrailer. And today we're going to be taking a look at our Inno Aero roof rack system with the Inno Aero Crossbars that are 51 and 54 inches long and our Inno Through Feet right here on our 2021 Subaru Forester. So you have your Subaru Forester and you're ready for adventure. What if you want to carry things like high axe or bikes or roof boxes, roof baskets, you have a lot of options but the first thing you need is a roof rack system. So what I have here is the Inno Aero roof rack system with the wider crossbars.
I think this is probably going to be one of the sleekest systems we have here at etrailer. We have a bunch of options but if you're going for low profile and stylish and has weight capacity and has locks included we have a bunch of features. You might be interested in this one. So let's take a look at all those different features right here in this video. Since we have the wider crossbars the big advantage this has is it has a little bit more overhang.
So your actual overhang is going to be a little different depending on where you measure. That's why you have uneven crossbars because when it all comes down to it they're pretty much the same once they're finally on your roof. In fact, as an example is the overhang for our rear crossbar from the end of the tower to before the end cap is going to be three and a half inches. And for our front crossbar, exact same spots, it's going to be three and a half inches of overhang. Now we'll take a look at roof clearances.
So those are two different measurements. The first is going to be from the top of our roof to the bottom of our crossbar. Very important since we have a glass roof over here. You have a clearance of three and a half inches. So if you have bindings on your skis or want to be careful with that clearance but most importantly for accessories that have clamps that go around your crossbar this is actually considered low profile.
So you want to make sure that those clamps aren't too big and will hit your roof and that you have enough clearance as well to tighten things down is the UCU bolts or wingnuts. Second measurement is going to be the roof height or the added height to top of our roof. So from the roof to top of the crossbar, it sits at about four and five eighth inches and that's going to be where your cargo is going to sit. If you're carrying a ladder, that's as high up off your vehicle it's going to sit. If you're carrying skis with extra large bindings, you also want to be conscious of your ski and snowboard carriers because that's not that much height for extra large bindings. The good news is that your Forester has raised rails with a pretty good amount of crossbar spread. You can adjust this depending on your different accessories. Some require a specific crossbar spread for their clamps. I have it at 29 inches, right now. But you could move this further out or further back depending on what you want to do. And I would like to say you could probably get about a maximum of 40 inches of crossbar spread which is really cool. Just to be mindful that you can still open up your hatch. On the top of our very sleek aerodynamic crossbar, we have these rubber strips. So those are covering our T-tracks. So if you open up the end cap which has a little tab you can just push down on these rubber strips and slide your T-track mounted accessory through. That's really convenient because then you don't have to cut those weather strips. They pop right back up around your T-track system which means that everything is still in place. These are the Inno Aero bars. What are aero bars Well they're the more modern crossbar compared to your round and square crossbars. When you would drive down the highway with those on it would be really noisy, if you get a lot of wind drag. This is designed to reduce that wind drag and wind noise and make for a smoother ride without any accessories on top. This also gives you a bit more stability and space for T-track mounted accessories. Because if you have that T-track system, you can then utilize all of the crossbar and not be limited by where the towers are. I highly recommend using T-track mount accessory, just for that reason. Here we have the Inno Through Feet. So these are your towers, your foot packs, your clamps whatever you want to call them. They hold your crossbars to your race rails. And I would consider these sleek and low-profile so they don't give as much height as other towers which could be a good thing. Since it could look almost factory in some people's opinions. Now these have integrated locks. So all of them have a locking core. One, two, three, four you're going to get two keys. These keys match the entire system. They pop right in there and once they are unlocked, you can just easily take that pack out and then access the locking or the tightening down clamps. Now these do not lock your crossbars themselves though. So if you did have T-track mounted accessories, people could just pop off that end cap and then access that. So for that case, I would recommend taking a look at lockable T-track mounted accessories. If you want to secure both your accessories and your roof rack. This roof rack system includes everything you need to install it. You have the levers integrated in the towers themselves. You get your keys but some other things that are not included but I recommend adding are two things. One is going to be a tape measure just to get all your measurements. The second is going to be this Moki doorstep. So this is what I use throughout all of our videos gives me some extra height, extra traction. This gets so much easier to tighten things down. Also if you're going to be using roof boxes, roof baskets and you need to strap cargo down this is going to help out a lot with that on your Forester. So the install process can be very fast if you know what you're doing. So that's what this video is for. I can guide you through the process, make sure you get it done right and we'll find out all my shortcuts as well. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to line this up so our tray is towards the center. You will have to press the button on the inside first in case you can't push it all the way in. And once that tray is lined up you're ready to put your tower once you get this end cap off. Just press that tab, pull that off, grab your tower. So your tower is going to have these tabs. Those tabs are going to fit into that tray. So you can have a right tower and a left tower. You'll know because the tabs will always fit on the correct side. So once you got that in place, just put it over and then pull it. And that immediately secures the tower to the crossbar. What I like to do from here is just to put our end cap on so it's already ready to go. And then we put this on the roof. Another thing is, make sure it's facing the correct way. You want your tapered end of the crossbar facing the back of your vehicle and the larger end facing the front. So once you have that lined up you're then just going to go onto your roof and then fit this strap over your rails. And then the tower goes on top on each side, just like that. And now is where you take measurements. So I actually installed the first crossbar first so that we can install the second crossbar together. There's two measurements you're going to have to take. One is going to be the crossbar spread, that is how far apart do you want cross bars to be. I want mine to be about 29 inches apart. Just because that's so sounds a good number for most accessories, right there. So make sure to measure that on both sides and then measure the overhang. So that's going to be from the end of the tower to right before the end cap. Make sure that's the same on both sides. Also, if you're using the Inner Roof Rack system with a shorter crossbars, you're going to want to have the long version in the front and the shorter crossbar in the back. So once you've taken those measurements and arranged things and rearranged things to make them perfect then the next step is just to put this strap up into those tabs and then you're going to tighten it down with this included lever. I really like how they have an easy to use lever. So compared to tools and wrenches you use to tighten down the towers this is so much easier. Do this on both sides. So once you have that tightened down as much as you can get it, you're then gonna flip that lever down, just double check that your towers are nice and secure and then you have this end cap. This end cap is going to go into your tower has a little tab that it fits in. And then you're going to secure it with your key. And once all four towers are in place and you've double checked that all four end caps are in place too that's it for the install. So my personal thoughts about this roof rack is I really like how you get the different options for wider or shorter crossbars here with Inno. What's really cool is that they have different size crossbars because of the way your roof is designed on your Forester. If you're looking for a stylish roof rack for your Forester, I would highly recommend this one. If you're looking for something that's a bit more cost effective, though, you might be interested in the Malone AirFlow two. You don't get as cool or as premium of a roof rack with that one but you still get the job done. Something that's actually even easier to install is going to be the Rhino Rack Roof Rack for raised rails. You might want to check that one out too, but again, if you're going for stylish, checks up all the boxes, you're able to lock everything down. Definitely go with this one, especially this one which has the 51 inch and the 54 inch long crossbars. Those extra couple inches are definitely worth it in my opinion. And that was a look right here at our Inno Aero roof rack system with the Inno Aero crossbars and the Inno Through Feet right here on our 2021 Subaru Forester..
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