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These crossbars combine the strength of steel with an aerodynamic shape to create a heavy-duty yet quiet roof rack for your vehicle. Full-length bars work with most clamp-on accessories. Installs to raised rails on your vehicle's roof.
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Hi, Matt with etrailer. Today we're gonna be talk about the Yakima CoreBar roof rack system on the 2023 Nissan Rogue. Now this is gonna be a good option for you if you kind of run outta space in the back of your vehicle or you have it fully loaded up with other people and you need to haul any extra gear, maybe camping, luggage or anything along those lines. You're gonna be able to put a lot of different accessories up top. As far as weight capacity is concerned, I'd go by what is the lowest rated. So I'd check with your manufacturer to make sure how much your roof can handle and making sure how much these roof rack system can handle as well and just going by which one's lower.
Today our system's gonna be comprised of three parts. That tarp part is gonna be our Yakima CoreBar crossbar at the top, and that's gonna be connected via adapter to our Yakima Baseline towers. And that's gonna be secured down by our fit kit to our vehicle. Now let's take a closer look at our crossbars. Our crossbar is gonna be 50 inches in length and it's gonna have this arrow shape to it, so that's gonna help it be more aerodynamic, help reducing on wind noise.
It's also gonna be really good if you need to put on any clamp-on accessories. We're gonna have plenty of room beneath, however, it doesn't have any T tracks installed on it so you won't be able to accommodate any T track accessories. We're gonna have this adapter that hooks this on into place to our towers. That's gonna be a pretty easy installation to get it on there and our towers are gonna connect to our crossbar and they're gonna really just cover up a lot of our fit kit. Now we do have this plastic piece here and that's just a placeholder.
If you ever wanna get a metal lock core to put in here just for that additional security, you can actually get that keyed alike for any of your other Yakima accessories. As for how it's gonna sit on top of our vehicle, for the width, it's gonna sit pretty flush with our vehicle. It's not gonna stick out too far, so you're not, you're gonna be less likely to hit your head on it. But one of the drawbacks to that is if you wanna put any accessories on the very end, you're not gonna have a lot of room to do so. And as for the distance we have underneath it, that's gonna be about three inches.
That's just important to know to see what kind of clamp-on accessories you can accommodate. Three inches is pretty tall, so you're gonna be able to accommodate a lot of things. And for the total length it adds to the top of your vehicle, it's gonna add four inches. So I'd definitely keep that in mind if you're going through any low hanging areas, you're gonna want to take the total height of your vehicle plus those four inches of your crossbar and any accessories that are on top of that as well. A total crossbar spread is gonna be 32 inches and that's just something to note to see what different type of accessories you can mount up top. And our crossbars are gonna be constructed from steel, making them very durable and they're gonna have this black vinyl finish to 'em and that finish is gonna help it be more weather resistant, making them more or less likely to rust. As far as the install goes, it's a pretty straightforward. It's something you really gotta pay attention to the directions. If you skip a step, it could set you in the wrong direction, but if you need a hand with that, just stay tuned and we'll show you how to do that. To start things off, I'd just like to lay everything out. So we're gonna have our crossbars up front and over to the side we'll have our towers and their end caps for each one. We'll have our two adapters and on the other side we're gonna have our fit kits. We're also gonna have an included tool. It's gonna have this Allen key with this built-in torque and it's also gonna come with a measuring tape. We're gonna use ours from the shop today. And I'd also recommend using a measuring tape, just make things a little bit easier. To start off, I'm just gonna grab my tower, I'm gonna come to the back of it and we're gonna have this gray security tab here. And all I'm gonna do is pull that out and make sure it kind of makes a click sound, that'll let us know we have access to it. Now I'm just gonna face this up. I'm gonna have this bolt, we're actually gonna just put our adapter on there, just threading it through that hole and you're just gonna twist it on until it seats into place. Then we'll repeat that same process for the other side. We're gonna come up to our crossbar and remove this end cap, just pulling it right off. And then we're gonna take our adapter and line it up to be the same shape as our crossbar and making sure our hardware is facing out. Once you have everything lined on, you can just slide it down to a point right here. And I'm gonna take my second crossbar and repeat that same process, only making sure that the hardware is facing towards me now and just sliding that on as well. I can actually just take my included tool and tighten this bolt down that's in this channel and now I'll secure it onto the adapter. We don't need to tighten it all the way, just enough where it's not gonna fall off. Now I'm gonna get my M1 measurement and to get that number you're just gonna reference your fit guide instructions and it'll let you know there. Once you have that number, you can measure everything out. What I like to do is take that number and cut it in half and measure from the sensor point that'll be marked with this arrow to the back of our crossbar. And once I have that measurement and adjusted, then I can tighten down my bolt and I'll show you the exact one we need to tighten down. We're gonna wanna tighten down this bolt that's in this channel completely and this is gonna help us set our pitch. And you're gonna be able to find that exact pitch by referring to your fit guide instructions. Now on our vehicle today, we're gonna have a 38 and a half inch distance from here for your M1 measurement and to find our pitch, make sure that this arrow on your crossbar is facing away from you, facing forward, and that's gonna help you find the pitch. Once that is in the right orientation, then you can come over to this bolt and make sure it's in the A position. And once it's all the way tightened, the torque spec that's built into your Allen key will click just like this, preventing you from tightening it too much. Next up we're gonna find the toe and the do that you just need to reference your fit guide instructions. And in our case we'll need a two and we already have it in that position. But if you do need to adjust that, just come over to these bolts. We're gonna have that bolt that we tightened earlier for our pitch that's in that channel. We're actually gonna go over to the side of that one and this will be an additional bolt that you just need to loosen up and you'll be able to adjust this by just pushing or pulling on either side for whatever toe points you need. When you've adjusted that, then you just have to tighten this back down, then you can just repeat that same process on the other side. And before we can get it on our roof, we're just gonna have to put our bases on. And to do that, we're gonna make sure this is facing the correct way. So you want this error pointing out and away. It's gonna look just like this. And once you have it in place, you just have to push down and until it clicks, just make sure everything works just fine and then you can repeat that same process on the other side. Now we can put our crossbars up there, just make sure our bases are attached and feel secure and we wanna make sure this is in the right orientation. We want this fatter side facing forward, and this thinner side facing behind us. And now all I have to do is lift up and fit it on there, just kind of getting it close to where we measured earlier. And if things aren't fitting super close or very as well as you would like it to, then you can take it off and just kind of adjust just by a little bit to kind of make sure it fits up there. And like I said earlier, the measurement was supposed to be 38 and an eighth, but to get it to fit on there correctly, we actually had to change our measurement to 37 inches to get it the fit there. So it might kind of vary just depending on your vehicle make and model, but this part is definitely gonna be the part that requires the most patience. There's gonna be a lot of little tweaks and adjustments you're going to have to make. Now we're just gonna take our clamps and you gonna wanna make sure you have the B43 ones on the front crossbars and we'll come over to our tower. We're gonna open up this access door and that's gonna give us access to our drive bolt. We're just gonna put our clamp through where this hole is in place with our drive bolt and it's gonna hook on. So I'm just gonna push it through this channel there at the bottom and now that drive bolt has kind of grabbed on. Now if you're kind of having trouble with this, you might have to either loosen your drive bolt or your swing away bolt. And with that in place you can tighten either one. I like to just tighten the swing bolt just a little bit and then tighten our drive bolt just a little bit until we have contact. We don't wanna tighten it down too much because it's gonna pull too much on one side, but once it's made contact, we can go around to the other side and tighten that side down some more and keep on repeating that process until it's secured to our roof. You know it's gonna be tight enough if when you try to turn it it just clicks on both bolts and on the other side as well. It's gonna be very secure to our vehicle. Just make sure you shut that access door and then just take your end cap and place it on the back of the tower just lining everything up and pushing it on until it clicks into place. Now we're gonna start on our rear crossbar. The first thing you're gonna want to do is find out what your total distance is gonna be. In our case it's gonna be 36 inches, but take that with a grain of salt that might be subject to change. And as for our pitch and toe settings, they're gonna be on 2 and B, just on those middle settings there. And now, since we already have our front crossbar installed, we can put this one up there. You're just gonna find your N4 measurement, in our case, that's gonna be 34 inches and you're just gonna measure from the front of the front crossbar to the front of the rear crossbar. To get that measurement, I'm just gonna lift up and kinda put this back, just kind of get a rough estimate of where it's gonna sit. And with it up there, I can just grab our measuring tape and measure out to make sure everything's looking accurate. And if it's slightly off, just adjust to kind of make sure you're getting that correct crossbar spread. And once you've found that number and have it up there, everything's gonna be the same process as the front side. And to finish it up, we're just gonna make sure everything's tightened down enough, making sure it clicks into place just like that. And we're gonna just put on our end caps, make sure everything clicks right into place. And I also like to make sure everything's sitting on the roof nice and well, so just give it a little shake test and after that you can take it for a ride. That was just a look at the install and some of the features of the Yakima roof rack system on the 2023 Nissan Rogue.
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