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SquareBar Evo crossbars attach to Thule feet to create a durable, reliable roof rack for your vehicle. Bars are constructed of galvanized steel with a polymer coating that provides grip for your cargo. Accommodate accessories that clamp around bars.
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Thule SquareBar Evo Crossbars - Steel - 53" - Qty 2:Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today in our 2016 Nissan Frontier, we're going to be doing a test fit on the Thule Evo WingBar roof rack system for naked roofs for the Nissan Frontier. This Thule Evo WingBar roof rack system is going to allow you to carry roof mount accessories on your Nissan Frontier. Things like bike racks, kayak carriers, cargo baskets, and much more. That way it'll free up space for our truck bed. It's designed specifically to work with your Nissan Frontiers naked roof. With it in place, you can see that there's no movement so you can rest assured your accessories will be safe.
It features aerodynamic aluminum roof bars, you can pick these up on either black or silver right here at etrailer.com. Now these are going to be a lot quieter than your traditional round or square bars. It'll help eliminate some of that wind noise or that drag when we're heading down the road.It'll work with your standard clamp on accessories as well as your T-slot accessories. Will simply pivot that end cap to the side and rather than having to remove that rubber strip or take it out and trim it, we can just slide that inaudible 00:01:10 right through the center and position it anywhere we want inside that bar. The crossbars are held in place by four Thule Evo feet.
These are going to set them up roughly three and an eighth of an inch from the top of the roof to the underside of the bar. That way we're going to have more than enough room for those clamp on accessories to grab a hold of the bar without them making contact with the roof. Now the Evo feet are padded here where they make contact with the roof. That way they won't harm or scratch that finish.If you look underneath the cover here, you can see that it's going to protect our hardware from the elements. It's also going to deter theft.
That way no one's going to tamper with it or try and take it off of our frontiers roof. Now the bolt that tightens it to our frontiers roof is right through here and the tool is included. Now with my door open, you can see how the clip comes down and attaches to the inside of the frame here. Now these clips are specifically designed to work with your frontiers so you can see how they're going to match the molding of the inside of the door and then we can replace our weatherstripping and our doors going to shut this fine. Again, that cover is going to protect all of that so no one can remove it and if we'd like to, we can replace the plastic lock cores with the Thule metal inaudible 00:02:26 cores to add more security.
That way nobody can get it on there and remove that.Now this roof rack system does have a weight capacity of 220 pounds. This is a step up compared to some other roof rack systems. We're going to be able to carry a lot more accessories with this one. You do however want to check with your frontiers owner's manual to see if your roof can support that much weight. I've already got my front crossbar in place. We need to set up the rear. Let's go ahead and do it together. I've got one side ready to go, we just need to prepare the other side. The first thing we'll do is we'll take our Evo clamp foot and we'll assemble this. So what we can do is we can take off the door here, you'll need to make sure it's unlocked first, so the lock needs to be returned to the horizontal position. Then we can just pick up on it slightly and then pull out just like that. We'll set that aside, then we can turn it over and we can grab our rubber pad.Now, they are all numbered. The front and rear pads are different, so you need to look at your instructions and make sure that you have the correct one. For our rear crossbar, we need to be sure we have number five, two, five. Now they only install one way, you simply just line it up with the way it looks on the bottom of the foot and then press it in place. Now surrounding the pad, it just has a little lip that will snap into the bottom of the plastic portion here. So just look over it and make sure that it is clipped in place. Once you think you've got it, give it a good pull, make sure it's not coming off. If it is, just give it another good squeeze and then you should have it. Now from here we can grab our actual clamp. Now these two are also numbered. You can find that right here on the underside. For our rear crossbar, we're looking for 342. It's going to be located again right here. Then we can take it, push it in place, and we're going to be listening for like a slight click.Once it's done that we can pull it out and make sure it's in there. If you have it in there, it shouldn't come out, so you'll be able to move around like this. Now we're ready to slide it onto our crossbar. We can go ahead and turn our crossbar open. Before we actually install our foot onto our channel underneath, we need to set our scale. Per our instructions, we need to set it to 45 so it's numbered. You don't have to worry about seeing this, you're going to be able to see it on yours. I'm going to go ahead and set mine to 45 and the numbers get larger this direction. So just set it to where you can see the 45 and then you're ready to slide it in place. So as I'd mentioned, the foot slides onto the channel here.The way you slide it in place is, you'll need to unlock the brakes on the inside of the foot here. So you can see the two metal pieces here we want to do is take a thumb on both and push. You can see how it moves like this. We'll get it lined up, press in, and then it will allow us to slide it in place. We're going to slide it all the way on until the foot makes contact with the scale here. Then we've got the correct measurement. From here we can install our end cap and we're ready to set it in place on our frontier. Now we want to be sure that our doors are opened up and then we can gently set it in place in the general area. Now for the next part will need to draw down the weather seal around the inside of our doorframes so we can actually just pull down and we're going to be right in this area here, so let's go and do that for both sides.Now the next thing we need to do is take a measurement from the front of our cross bar here to the front of the crossbar here. That will give us our placement for the rear bar. But before we do that, let's talk about how we got the position for our front crossbar. So per our instructions, we take a measurement from our windshield and measure up to the foot pack here. Most of the time you take a measurement from the corner of the windshield, but for the frontier, you need to do it more towards the center of the windshield. You can see how it kind of arches downward. That's going to cause the crossbar to move further forward and that's what we want. We want to take a measurement from more of the center of the windshield that will mark out your line for where your foot pack is going to be. If we we're to measure it from the corner, it would cause it to go back and it would throw off the whole rear bar. So again, just be sure you measure up from the center of the windshield to the end of the foot pack.So now that being said, let's go ahead and grab our measurement for the placement of our rear crossbar. From the front to the front, we're looking at about 27 and a half inches. For our instructions, we'll be sure and do that for both sides. So I'm going to pull down that weather stripping just to make sure it's out of the way and what we want to do is make sure that clamp hooks on to the bottom of the frame here. So I'm actually just pushing up in place with my thumb. I'm going to hold it there. Then I'll take my included tool and take up some of that slack. That way the hook stays there. Now when we feel that resistance, we can stop and then move over to the other side and do the same thing. Once we've taken that slack out of both sides, then we can begin tightening them down. Now as we're doing this, we want to be sure we're alternating side to side. That way it makes it nice and even on both sides.Then once you get it to where it's almost tightened down all the way, our included tool is unique in that it will click when it's properly torqued down. So once we get it to where it's almost tight, just listen for that audible click. Once everything's all tightened up, we can go ahead and put on our cover, make sure it snaps in place, we'll walk it up, and then let's not forget to replace our weather stripping and then we can close up the door and we're all set. With everything installed, we're ready to load up our favorite roof mount and accessory and hit the road. But that's going to complete our test fit of the Thule Evo WingBar roof rack system for naked roofs on our 2016 Nissan Frontier.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (510 Customer Reviews)
SquareBar Evo crossbars attach to Thule feet to create a durable, reliable roof rack for your vehicle. Bars are constructed of galvanized steel with a polymer coating that provides grip for your cargo. Accommodate accessories that clamp around bars.
Standard crossbars, very strong and ver satile.
I've had the roof rack for a year now and we only use it sporadically in the winter to put the ski box ontop of the car but it works great. Very easy to install and remove and very sturdy. Previously I had the kind that bolted into the roof of my SUV and had a terrible experience with that (we lost the rack and kayaks on the freeway and it tore holes in my roof). The clamp style is the only kind we'll get from now on because they are much sturdier and no risk of losing them. Definitely recommend them.
These bars are great and work fine. However the connection slots are not long enough to allow the 60” bars to work on our grand Cherokee. The 60” bars would give more clearance for our Thule Hullevators when they are in the lowered position. I had to develop a removable pad system to protect them from hitting the side of the car.
I just got my packages and had it installed within the hour very satisfied
No problems installing. The rack is doing fine.
Product was right fit for my vehicle and installed perfectly. Etrailer was knowledgeable and got the goods to me quickly. Enjoyed working with them and will again.
About a year ago we purchased two Thule Hullavator Pro kayak racks along with a Thule SquareBar Roof Rack for mounting. The combination worked out very well and we headed from Colorado Springs to Duvall Washington outside of Seattle with three stops along the way to kayak. The trip went smoothly and we appreciated the Hullavator ease lifting the boats. We have two more trips planned in the near future. We did mount the boats with cockpits down to avoid filling with water when traveling without a problem.
Easy to install, fit and finish are top notch.
I've owned this roof rack for a year now, and it has served my purposes (carrying my kayak around on my truck) quite well. It was fairly easy to assemble, largely because the entire instruction guide was in pictures.
I have had to retighten the rack a couple of times since putting it on the roof, so I tie the kayak down to the front and back of the truck as well as to the roof rack. I suspect the ocean kayak puts a bit of lift on the roof rack resulting in the loosening.
Well packaged, arrived in good condition. Works as expected. Would be great to have additional fitment information available. The underside channels of the 53” bars were just barely long enough to fit Leer cap track system spaced 40” apart using the rapid podium feet (phew). Thought from the measurements there would be some room to spare but didn’t account for the angle of the podium feet.
Worked perfectly on my 2020 GMC Sierra. Looks and works great.
I have almost always had roof rails on my vehicles. My F150 had no rails and I was nervous about clamp style rack holders given what I tend to carry on top. These have been great and I am positive I have overloaded them numerous times.
Great quality products! Easy installation with properly guided instructions. One of the best tracking information, from ordering to delivery. Would strongly recommend etrailer to anyone looking for roof or hitch bike racks.
Seamless ordering and delivery. Video instructions very helpful
Classic square bar, but modern integration with the podium feet. Exactly what I was looking for.
Worked Perfect & Secured a very heavy load in extreme weather & off road conditions
Easy to install with the anchors and crossbars, and still holding up great a year later.
Excellent system
Worked great on my 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan's naked roof. Carried fully loaded car topper over 8,000 miles without needing any adjustments. Easy to install. Created a significant amount of whistling/howling when driving without a topper, so I wrapped a bungee cord around the front bar and secured it to the Thule feet. Voila. No more noise.
One of the Evo Clamps is missing the plastic plate where the rubber spacer attaches. Please send a new plate or new clamp so I can finish my install. See attached photos to see the difference.
Great product from Thule. Fit my 2022 Ford Ranger perfectly and is very strong and secure when installed. Excellent customer service from trailer and extremely fast shipping.
I bought the Thule Evo Roof Rack to transport my kayak on my Lexus 300H. Thule will advise you on their website that his particular rack is not right for a Lexus 300H (i.e., they don't make a roof rack for a Lexus 300H); it is really for a Camry, but etrailer told me that is worked, I trusted them and they were correct. After all, a Lexus sedan is really a fancy Camry, but Thule will not acknowledge this point. It works great. Thule makes a solid product.
Superb quality. Of course, it is from Thule and they are expensive for sure. But, you really get what you pay for!
And, just consider how expensive it would be if using something more affordable (cheap generic brand) and the racks/bars take off from the roof with the box on the highway!
These will not take off, super sturdy and fits the car perfectly.
Just be sure to get the right kit.
And follow the paper instructions coming along the parts.
Can recommend these, were for Nissan Leaf 2021.
And not to forget the etrailer company, they did their part as well with flying colors. All parts arrived in time and were correct!
Solid foot for Thule roof rack. Used these for square bar but applicable for aero bar options as well.
Installed on a pickup truck. Hauls canoe very well. We love our rack. Easy to mount and very strong. No issues in thousands of miles of hauling. Great rack.
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