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This custom fit kit lets you mount 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 legs to your vehicle with a naked roof. Clamps mount to legs with bolts. Includes 4 clamps and 4 pads.
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Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Nissan Frontier, we're going to be test fitting the Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system. This does consist of part numbers RRVA137B-2. These are the Vortex Aero crossbars, 54 inches long. These also come in silver as part number RRVA137S-2. We'll also be using part number RRRLKVA. These are the Rhino Rack 2500 series legs for the Vortex Aero crossbars.
And finally, part number DK108, and this is the fit kit for this particular vehicle.The Rhino Rack vortex arrow roof rack system is great for carrying a wide variety of accessories on your truck while freeing up space inside your vehicle and, if your truck bed's full, taking some of that load, as well. This can be used with bike racks, cargo baskets, and some cargo boxes. The aerodynamic shape of the bars, coupled with the Vortex Aero strips up top, is going to help cut down wind, noise, and drag while you drive.Also, if we unlock the end cap here, this can be used with T-track accessories by removing the strips, inserting your accessories, cutting them to length, and then putting the end cap back into place. Unlike other roof rack systems, these do come with the lock cores already installed on them, so once you install these to your roof rack system, they are secure to your roof, as well.Both bars have a carrying capacity of 165 pounds, but you always want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure your roof can withstand those weights. Now that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack system, let's go ahead and show you how it installs.We have our front bars already installed, and how we determined where they we're going to be place ...
we had everything assembled, and then we measured from the center of the door jam to the center of the bar, and that's how we got this placement here. Once we have the rear bar fully assembled, we'll be measuring from center of this bar to the center of the rear bar for that placement.We have our 2500 series leg. We have the lockable end caps, and our fit kits consist of the clamp and the rubber foot for the leg. Our first step is we're going to take our leg, and we're going to install it onto our Vortex Aero crossbar. You're going to loosen it up to where this bracket here fits inside the slot on the bottom.
And pretty much, it's just going to slide into place.Now, normally, once you've purchased these bars, you'll get a strip that you'll measure to length, cut it, and that's what's going to serve as the spacer between the leg and this portion of the bar. But for demonstration purposes, we'll just be measuring it out today. You'll find this measurement in your instructions, and we'll take our included tightening tool and the screw in the center here. Okay. Good.
And then, next, we can take our end cap, push that into place, and take our plastic key here and secure it down.Next, we'll take our rubber foot here, and it just lines up with those portions, making sure that the arrow and the numbers are corresponding to where they're supposed to be. And these just push right into place. Next, we'll loosen our screw here in the center. Line up our clamp, and just loosely install this. And now, we can open up the rear doors of our Frontier and put our bar into place.We'll just set it into place for now. Then, we'll make sure it is sitting evenly on the truck on both sides, and then we'll get that measurement from center to center to make sure it's in the right spot. Put these into place. We'll pull down on our insulation here, and the clamps will actually sit in this lip right here. I'll push that back into place, and then, we can start tightening these down with our included tool. To tighten these down, we do have this tool with this curve to it. Once this straightens out, you'll know that it's tightened enough, so this prevents you from over or under-tightening your roof rack to your roof.All right. You can push that back in place. We'll repeat this on the other side. We'll line up these two tabs with the points here. Push in. Lock it into place. Now, we're ready to load up our gear and hit the road. And there you have it for the Rhino Rack Vortex Aero roof rack system on our 2018 Nissan Frontier.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (2297 Customer Reviews)
This custom fit kit lets you mount 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 legs to your vehicle with a naked roof. Clamps mount to legs with bolts. Includes 4 clamps and 4 pads.The boxes arrived undamaged.
Everything was individually packaged, except the bolts, washers & lock washers. (They were floating around free in the box.)
There were also no decals stating Right Rear, Right Front, Left Rear or Left Front, like the instructions specifies.
The metal straps has scuff marks like they have been used.
One screw that attaches leg to rail was almost stripped out but I'm not taking it apart for a picture...
After over an hour installing the front, I took it apart and swapped out one leg and then it worked fine.
Since nothing was marked I had a front and a rear paired up which didn't work, of course. After that, the back bar installed in less than 5 minutes.
I'm confident if this would have been a new packaged item (with the decals) it would have taken less than 20-30 minutes to install.
I have 7 pics showing all I listed above but this form will not allow me to post the pics.
James - 10/09/2022
This rack worked perfectly for what I needed. It was an easy one person install.
I got this along with the Rhino Rack 2500 series Roof Rack with the Euro Square Crossbars in a kit. They fit perfectly and were easy to install.
Ease of order, receipt, installation and excellent customer service is what I received in this order.
Thank you, e-trailer!
Works great and is very solid. I used the rack and a couple of their kayak racks to carry two kayaks. They are very secure, no vibration and minimal noise even at 70mph.
These racks have held up extremely well. I definitely recommend your products. Great buy for sure!!! They serve they're purpose well!
I suppose it's a 1 star review until I receive the missing parts for my cargo bars. I'm hoping etrailer will send them ASAP as I have a trip in 10 days that I'll need the rack for.
Decent product.
Paul - 08/23/2022I had a bed rack on my truck that I bought to carry my kayaks. It worked great. I recently decided to start looking for a cap for the bed of my truck so I needed a way to move my kayaks to the roof. This was a great solution and it didn't break the bank.
Awesome product and fast delivery.
this rack fits perfectly on my 2012 nissan frontier, i couldnt be more happier with my purchase, thanks etrailer for making my buying experience so easy
Very well engineered rack system! Excellent customer service- both phone service helping me find the right rack and followup afterwards.
Overall great product. It does everything I hope it would do and more, minus a couple issues.
1: These leave a slight gap in the door seal allowing air to pass through on the occasional windy day. The noise from this can be a little bit abound.
2: The anti theft aspect of this product isn't great. I almost lost my racks to a thief, but they stripped the allen head due to not having the appropriate Allen key. They did manage to loosen the racks though. I got lucky.
For the money, these are great, but don't expect $1200 quality, or the quality of a professional installation bolted to the roof.
Very happy with my purchase. All parts fit and install was a breeze.
Fits like a glove, so easy to use. Thank you!
Great cross bars for 2016 Nissan Frontier. The front one needs some adjustments from time to time for some reason. There's a bit of wind noise too but you'll get that with any aftermarket cross bars. Otherwise I've used it for my kayaks and luggage cage quite a bit with no problems.
We are very satisfied with the roof rack. Plus, the installation instructions were well described so it was easy to install. Thank you.
installed these on my 2014 Nissan Frontier and they fit perfectly. Very well made and should last a long time. Thanks etrailer.
Very nice quality
Great Product/easy installation. Fit kit was an excellent match for my Frontier and it looks great! No air noise whatsoever. Couldn’t be happier with purchase!
Fit my Nissan Frontier just fine. One of the clips was squashed just a little where it hooks over the door frame but was easy to widen out enough.
Product is great, but the instructions could use a couple of extra steps that are necessary but not given regarding the measure strips.
Fit my 2012 Frontier Crew Cab very well.
The best price I found on the web and all truck shops near me. The product arrived on a timely manner and when I opened it up some of it was pre assemble, and thats a plus in my book.
Awesome. Perfect fit and strong. Looks better than the originals for frontier
Great product and easy to install.
John A - 07/08/2019
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