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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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Today in our 2017 Honda Civic, we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install The Rhino-Rack roof rack system. This is going to consist of part numbers RRVA126B-2. That's going to be our Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero crossbars. These are also available in silver with part number RRVA126S-2. The Rhino-Rack 2500 series legs for the crossbars, part number RRRLKVA and part number DK453. That's going to be our custom-fit kit for our roof rack legs. The Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero crossbar system is going to be an aerodynamic crossbar system that allows you to carry any kind of vehicle accessory on your vehicle's roof, whether those are roof-mounted bike racks, cargo baskets, or ski and snowboard carriers.
If we remove the end cap of our crossbar, you'll see our weather strip on the top. That, along with the aerodynamic shape of our bar, is going to help to reduce wind noise and drag. We can also easily remove our weather strip and cut this down to accommodate channel-mounted accessories. The end caps on our crossbars also have the option to remove our plastic lock core and put in the metal one. You can find that at etrailer.com.
It's part number RRVA-LEC4. The foot pack for our crossbar kit also the option to lock it to help prevent thefts and tampering of your crossbar system as a whole. Lastly, the custom-fit kit that comes with our vehicle is going to have rubber at any portion that's going to make contact with our vehicle. That's going to help to prevent scratches or abrasions from our roof rack system onto our vehicle. This kit total has a 165-pound weight capacity, so you do want to check your vehicle's owners manual to make sure it can withstand that much weight. Everything you see here on this table is what's included with our kit. We have our foot pack here with our locking covers and the key is just above that.
We have our end cap for our crossbar with our included key, our fit kit for our roof rack system. That's going to be our rubber bottom piece. Then we'll have our clamp here and we have our included tool. This is going to be a torque tool to let us know how much torque we have behind our bolt and then we've provided our own flat tape measure. To start our install, we're going to take the bottom portion of our foot pack off. We're going to attach our rubber piece.
We're just going to squeeze those two pieces together until it's completely sealed and tight. Then we can place it onto our foot pack. Next, we'll remove our bolts here. We'll take our included clamp, place it over where we just removed our bolt, and start to tighten that back down. We want to tighten our bolts up just enough so that our clamp doesn't come loose from our foot pack. We're going to take the square nut on the bottom of our foot pack and slide this into the channel and we can take our measurement before the placement. This is going to be 12.8 centimeters. Once we have that in place, we'll take our included torque tool and we'll tighten down this bolt, here. Double check that measurement. Now we're ready to open up our doors and load this up onto our vehicle. With our doors open we'll take our crossbar and we're going to place it over the top of our vehicle. The crossbar spread's going to be from the middle of our front clamp to the middle of our back clamp, and that's going to be 70 centimeters. Once we have those in the correct spot, we can take our included torque tool and we're going to start to tighten down our bolts. I'm going to tighten it down so that our clamp is sitting just up against our door frame. Now we'll go back and forth tightening these down evenly, making sure that whatever we do to one side we do to the other. Now, we'll know we have enough torque behind our bolt when this skinnier portion of our torque tool is straight, just like you see there. Now we'll close up our doors and we can place on our locking end caps. We've got our crossbar end caps locked into place. We'll take our locking covers for our foot packs and lock those up. Now would be a good time to load up any roof-mounted accessories, and you're ready to hit the road. That's going to be our completed look at the Rhino-Rack roof rack system for our 2017 Honda Civic.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (3540 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.
Superb fitment. Precisely fits the roof of your car giving me confidence lugging my canoe or car top carrier around. Reasonably priced. You can tell the feet were designed specifically for your car. I've recommended etrailer and this Rhino Racks to several friends. Installation is super easy too with included measuring tapes, stickers to always return the mounts to the same location, etc.
It took a few weeks longer to ship than expected but the etrailer staff was very helpful throughout the process, as far as the product goes..the instructions included listed incorrect dimensions for a perfect fit, also the actual brackets to attach the feet to the car weren't the right shape initially, but a few small sacks with a rubber mallet and now they line up perfectly with the vehicles roof line, overall a good product but I wouldn't recommend for someone who isn't fairly mechanically inclined and good with a tape measure to install.
I ordered the RhinoRack on a Friday afternoon and received it on the following Wednesday (free shipping) from halfway across the country. The product is on the same level of quality as roof racks twice the price. It fit perfectly on my vehicle and is very strongly mounted. The videos etrailer has and the product instructions made installation a breeze. I highly recommend RhinoRack and etrailer.
These racks were easy to assemble and the customer service was top notch when I didn’t have the rubber strips I needed! Excellent all the way through!
I am a female age 61. I has to call pretty much every step of the instructions but I was able to install myself however the measurement for the width using the measure sticks was not quite accurate foe the rear rail. Customer service was very good at assisting me until the last call they never emailed me so I could send photos. I’m only going to be transporting a inflatable paddleboard so the discrepancy shouldn’t matter much. I’ll figure it out later cia customer service next year when I put back on.
Worked great for my 19 civic si! Some noise but I think that’s normal. Does not affect my sunroof from functioning!
Worked out great and fits my car exactly how I expected. As soon as I ordered from etrailer the order was put together and shipped out. I got it within 3 days after ordering even with the free shipping!
Would highly recommend and will probably order more in the future.
2017 Honda Civic Sedan: Rhino would get 3 stars for only “avg” instructions and a 5 for product quality. etrailer also a 5 for quick and easy research and fulfillment.
Product is very good quality but was difficult to install and their were little details in the limited instructions provided.
i bought this for my son and it is working great. He has since purchased some kayak carriers, and everything fits well. The service department worked very quickly to resolve and issue I had with some mismatched keys that were shipped. This is about the sixth purchase i have made with etrailer, and continues to be my goto place to get accessories.
They were a Christmas gift for my son, and he was thrilled! we have had no problems, and even with no experience, we were able to install the racks on the car
Great product very happy I chose this over other leading brands. Holds my two kayaks with no problem and looks great
Everything worked out great. Replaced parts to my daughter’s roof rack. No need to look anywhere else.
The Rhino roof rack held up pretty good. However, for my 2016 Honda Civic 4 dr. The front rack did not snuggle in like the rear rack because of the closer proximity of the vehicle's shoulders. It kept popping out. The metal strap that goes inside the doorway was the only thing that help keep it in place. Suggestion. Make the Rhino plastic pieces that attaches into the roof's shoulder longer and give the installer the option to shave it down if needed.
Works great. Got the set when I got a new car. Quick talk with etrailer to confirm exactly what I needed, and done. Fits the roof perfectly.
This rack was easy to install, by following the videos. I installed it by myself.
Product damaged my car, almost came off on the freeway. Company would not accept a return. Product arrived in a duct taped box
It's still there through heat and rain! Been using the rhino rack for about a year now carrying my bike everywhere.
An excellent rack, it fits really well and it's easy to take off and put back on. I made myself a small jig from odd pieces of wood that help me place the rack exactly in the same place each time. Gas consumption is only slightly effected when the rack is installed.
The rack was absolutely perfect! Very sturdy and well built, I was missing a very small piece that didn’t ship with the rest and etrailer had great costumer service and resolved the issue very fast for me!
Even though it was somewhat custom solution - it still fit quite well for my car. One needs to be prepared that installation would take significant time to carefully check all things and install them in correct order as every part is different even though it does not look like that from the first sight.
The shipping was fast and packaging was good. Got all that I ordered. The products looks well made, looks better than the products from Amazon and eBay. Can’t wait to carry my kayak for fishing.
Right fit and good customer service!!
I wish the vortex strip came pre installed. Kind of a pain to take the additional time to install it yourself. Had a hard time getting it in the rails at certain points.
Great product
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Jenny N.
9/27/2022
I am sorry to hear that this happened with the roof rack. I will definitely have our customer service team reach out to you.