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Custom-fit Landing Pads allow you to attach Control Towers to vehicles with fixed factory install points. Landing Pads mount to existing tracks and combine with Control Towers to create a base for an aftermarket roof-rack system.
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Speaker 1: Today on our 2016 Mazda CX5 we'll be taking a look at and showing how to install the Yakima roof rack system, part number Y00423. Those are going to be our Yakima CoreBar crossbars. Part number Y00148, those will be our SkyLine towers. And part number Y00233, those are going to be our landing pads for our CX5.The Yakima CoreBar roof rack system allows you to carry your vehicle accessories on your roof, whether those are bike racks, cargo baskets, or ski and snowboard carriers. The crossbar is an aerodynamic shape to help reduce wind noise and drag, but it is a heavy duty material which gives us a 220 pound weight capacity, though you do want to check your vehicle's owner's manual to make sure your roof can withstand that weight. These crossbars are going to work with most Yakima clamp-on accessories.
With the bars extending out past our towers, it will give us more room to add more accessories.The SkyLine tower does have the option to knock out this plastic core here and add in the Yakima Same Key System lock core, which will help to prevent theft and tampering of your roof rack system. When you don't need to use your roof rack system, and if you want to remove it from your vehicle, we'll simply open up the door of our SkyLine tower and we can remove it, then take the cover from our landing pads and place it back on.It is recommended that you use the 15" bars for our vehicle, but today we have our 70" bars on. You can notice that they don't extend out past our sideview mirrors. It's just going to give us some extra space to add more accessories. Now that we've gone over some features we want to show you how to get this installed.
We have our landing pack here. This is included with our kit. We'll get four sets of those. We have our SkyLine tower, again four sets of those. Our adapter for our SkyLine tower to fit onto our CoreBar, again four sets.
We have our end caps for our CoreBars, the included tool to tighten down our landing pad to our roof. We have our hardware for our landing pad and then the included tool that's going to tighten down our SkyLine tower to our crossbar. We've provided our own tape measure here.Now we can start by removing the cover on our landing pad. We're going to place the rubber portion on the bottom. We'll just fit that in.
This is going to go on top of our roof in the holes that we pre-drilled. To prepare our SkyLine tower for our crossbar we're going to take it and open up our cover here at the front, just pinching on each side. We'll see a bolt in the center here. We're going to loosen that up using our included tool. Once we have that loosened up, we can take our adapter piece and we're just going to fit it in over the top, making sure that the grips are on the outside. That's just going to click into place. We'll then take our adapter that attaches to our crossbar and we're going to secure it to this bolt here in the center. Hold it in place. Flip our tower around. We'll get to the bolt underneath there and we can tighten it down. We'll just take our SkyLine tower and slide it onto our crossbar.Now we'll come to our pre-drilled hole at the top on this weather strip. We're going to place our SkyLine tower over the top, making sure to line up our hole here with the hole that we've drilled. Next we'll take this bolt from our kit with the plastic concaved washer and place it on, and drop it down into the hole. We'll take the tool that comes with our kit and we're just going to start to tighten down our bolt. Whenever we're the things this down, we want to make sure that the weather strip all around the outside of our tower is completely flat. We don't want it to fold underneath itself. We'll just keep the things this up until we have a nice secure fit.Now with an extra set of hands we'll put our crossbar across our vehicle. Place our towers so that they're sitting on our landing pad. Now we'll measure out our crossbar overhang. Now we're going to have a longer overhang because we do have the longer bars. We'll just measure from the end of our SkyLine tower to the end of our crossbar. There is no specific measurement for this. We just want it even on each side.Now that we have our crossbar overhang measured out, we're going to tighten down this bolt here in the center of our SkyLine tower. This is going to tighten up our foot pack to our crossbar. Once we hear a click, we know we have that tight enough. We can close up our cover here at the front. Again we'll hear a click. We're going to know that our cover has secured our SkyLine tower to our landing pad. Lastly, we'll place on our end cap, sliding it into place and securing it. Now we're ready to load up our roof rack accessories and hit the road.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (96 Customer Reviews)
Custom-fit Landing Pads allow you to attach Control Towers to vehicles with fixed factory install points. Landing Pads mount to existing tracks and combine with Control Towers to create a base for an aftermarket roof-rack system.Parts were shipped the same day as I ordered them and arrived 3 days later -- 2 days sooner than the estimate. Everything fit as advertised. I couldn't be more satisfied. 852052
The rep from etrailer (Noah conformed my online order, made certain my order was correct for the vehicle I was outfitting and made certain I received my order items on time before my trip. This company is great! 828025
I needed a replacement for this part. Works great. Fast delivery. 816296
We bought this at the same time as a roof rack for our first family camping trip. These were really easy to install and have held up excellently in the last year. 804492
No complaints! Fits seamlessly with the towers and super easy to remove and replace the bars! 598223
Jacob K - 01/20/2020My experience with etrailer has been excellent. There was going to be a potential delay in one of the products, but their customer service promptly informed me, half the price of some of their competitors so can't really complain. In the end they got the part ahead of schedule and was able to ship in a timely manner. I will definitely keep them in mind for future purchases. 517730
We purchased the Yakima Skyline Towers roof rack with the Jet Stream crossbars. Took about 2 hours to install on the naked roof of our Flex. I drilled through the roof strip for the mounting bolts and they fit tighter than the factory rails. Very happy with our choice. 506388
The product I wanted shipped quickly and at a good price. Great service and quality. 500622
Simple installation to vehicle with supplied hardware and tools. Once these bases are installed to the vehicle, it is simple for a single person to install and remove crossbars and towers in just a couple of minutes. 462351
Quick shipping 370063
Very good product. The Yakama towers and cross bars feel very solid and appears to be high quality. Very easy install. Others have complained about the instructions, but guess I'm a visual person because the pictures all seemed very clear to me and the install was very easy. They do sit higher than I expected. After adding a Rhino Rack cargo basket, we only have about 4-5" clearance below the garage door. 331401
Axl - 01/03/2018It was shipped quickly and was easy to install. 294019
xx - 10/23/2017Landing pads arrived in the promised time frame. Box was in good condition and product worked great 284899
Excellent product and A++++++++ Customer Service!!! 269722
Fit my nissan nv200 no problem. Comes with different size and length bolts to fit multible vehicles. Directions did tell me to use different size bolts thay clearly were the wrong ones but it was easy to figure it out. Also: u need all 3 products to complete ur roof rack system. 248148
At first, a little tricky to install, as the kit comes with hardware for a variety of applications (different length/size bolts, etc). But after a quick look at the directions and identifying which bolt to use for my car, install was a breeze. I love this Yakima setup because I can remove the bars/towers and leave the landing pads with a cap. Makes it great for taking the canoe out on weekend trips, but not taking the fuel-economy hit during the weekday commute to work. 247866
Dan B - 05/01/2017Great fit and works great 121801
My roof rack arrived as promised and in good condition. Your web site was very useful in instructing the installation and how the parts matched with my other accessories. I did have a struggle lining up the screw holes, but with patience I succeeded. 107155
A quality item at a very good price. It took 15 minutes to install. 76029
I got my new landing pads the day they said it would arrive. The pads were in their original yakima packaging, properly packed and overboxed. I work for a logistics company so I know the importance of getting product to a customer on time and exceeding their expectations. Very well done etrailer.com! The landing pads is just part of what I needed, and with the discount code included for my next purchase, I will be back. Thanks again. 48642
Product was shipped very quickly with great communication along the way! This is a much more affordable option for the Porsche Cayman than the expensive factory bike rack. 38889
Just installed to my 08' Subaru Impreza using the factory bolting mounts. Easy setup did in about an hour or so including my Yakima High Roller bike rack. Seems sturdy, hopefully so to carry my heavy downhill mountain bike! 25550
So far so good! Cant beat the price either! Definitely a repeat customer for life! 15545
Order arrived on time in good shape, and it was a good price I have not had a chance to install it, but it seems pretty straightforward. 12188
looks good on car. easy install. easy on - off. looks strong. BUT incredibly noisy. I will have to buy the wind gaurd. They might as well include it because its no good without. now i will have to pay for shipping for the gaurd. I will remove it when not in use. Next life I'll try "the other guy" 10388
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