Yakima BaseLine Roof Rack for Naked Roofs - JetStream Crossbars - Aluminum - Black - Qty 2
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2012 Ford Escape
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2012 Ford Escape
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This setup gives you everything you need to get gear on the roof and hit the road. The system includes two 60" JetStream aluminum crossbars, four BaseLine towers, and a custom fit kit. It’s built to handle up to 165 lbs, so hauling kayaks, canoes, or cargo boxes feels secure and stable. Solid construction gives peace of mind when the rack is loaded down for a long trip.
Wind noise can take away from a good drive, but the aero-style JetStream bars cut through the air more smoothly. The rubber strips in the top channels help reduce wind noise and vibration while sealing out the elements. They also push down automatically when you install accessories—no trimming or fiddling with loose pieces needed.
Whether it’s a kayak in summer or skis in winter, this rack is ready for it all. The crossbars are compatible with most universal cargo, water, snow, and bike carriers that attach either in the top channels or around the bars. You can use the same setup for cargo boxes, paddleboard cradles, or bike mounts—just swap out attachments as needed.
You can add Yakima Same Key System (SKS) lock cores (sold separately) to deter theft. It’s an easy upgrade that keeps your rack safe when parked overnight at a campsite or loading up before a river trip. Knowing your gear stays put makes every journey a little more relaxed.
The aluminum build keeps things lightweight without giving up strength. Its black finish looks clean while standing up to weather and years of use. With a limited lifetime warranty backing it up, this rack is made to stay reliable through countless adventures.
Alternate Instructions
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Hello neighbor, this is Curt with etrailer and today we're gonna be taking a look at the Yakima JetStream roof rack and see how it fits and see how it installs on our 2025 GMC Sierra 1500. Now, why would you need a roof rack on a pickup truck Well, there's a few reasons that people might have. One might be that you use your truck bed a lot, it's got a lot of stuff in it, it gets pretty dirty back there maybe, and you wanna carry some things with you that you can't carry in the cab, but you wanna keep clean compared to all the stuff you have in here anyway. Another reason might be that you're traveling with something that's a lot longer than your truck bed. So if you have a long kayak or a canoe, having a carrier up here is gonna kind of keep it all out of the way and allow you to still use your truck bed as well. And finally, another reason would be maybe you have a ladder rack without a cantilever that goes over your cab and you're just carrying something particularly long that day and you just want the extra support underneath whatever item that is going over your cab.
All sorts of reasons that you might wanna put a roof rack up on your pickup truck. But in the case of the Yakima JetStream what this offers is an overhanging bar, which is just gonna give you more space to load up there. And honestly, when you have a vehicle this high, I do like having an overhang bar because I can mount things closer to the side of the vehicle, just making it easier to reach. The weight capacity on these is gonna be 165 pounds. However, you always want to double check your owner's manual and double check your roof capacity.
Whichever one of those numbers is lower, that's how much you're gonna be able to carry up on your roof. This is also what they call an Aero shaped bar. So the Aero bars are gonna be kind of wider in the front, more of a blade shape in the back. The idea being it's gonna be a lot less wind resistant and offer a quieter ride going down the road than you're gonna get out of square or round bars. But with all that being said, let's take a few measurements and see how it fits on our Sierra.
Now, as far as where our bar placement goes, we are gonna go over that in the installation a little bit later in the video. But what we have up here now is a 60 inch bar and being an overhang, it's gonna offer us that full 60 inches to be able to load accessories up here. The only spot you can't would be your clamp style accessories where it meets the tower, but if you're using the T slot accessories up here on the top for 'em, you're gonna have the entire 60 inch space to work with. It is gonna also have a 32 inch crossbar spread. So from the center of one bar to the center of the other, we're at 32 inches.
And that to me is really kind of a perfect number. 26 to 36 inches is generally what you're gonna see rooftop accessories require. So having it being right in the middle of that at 32 inches is really perfect for me. I don't see a whole lot of accessories that you won't be able to use up here with that sort of crossbar spread. We're also gonna take a look at how much height this is gonna add to the vehicle. So with the bars up on top, we're gonna be adding another 4-1/4 inches above the roof of the vehicle. So just keep that in mind whenever you're pulling into a garage or a low hanging space. You're also gonna wanna add that measurement to the height of whatever your accessories are if you're trying to calculate your vehicle height that way. It's leaving us plenty of room between the roof and the bottom of the bar to the tune of about 3-1/4 inches. And that's more than enough space to fit any of those clamp mounted accessories on here as well. Now the Sierra 1500 is a really tall vehicle. In fact, I think most people aren't gonna worry about hitting their head on these bars at all being an overhanging bar, but if you do wanna know what the overhang is on this, it's gonna be overhanging by about 3-3/4 inches up here if we're going from this point right here, the widest point. And while that does get it kind of outside the door threshold here, I don't think anybody's really gonna be stepping up and then out of a truck like this, they're just gonna be more going out and down. So I'm not really worried about head clearance on a truck like this. But after looking at the features and looking at how it fits on our Sierra 1500, let's take a look at exactly how we got these up on our roof. So the first step of our installation is going to be to attach our towers to our crossbar. And to do that, the first thing we want to do is remove our end cap from the crossbar. We'll just lift that tab and slide it right off. Then we're gonna take our tower and we're gonna turn it upside down. Now this silver block right here is going to slide into this T slide underneath and we're just gonna kind of work it over. Now if you look in your fit kit instructions, it's gonna give you different measurements, M1, M2 M3, M4. So M1 and 2 are in regards to our front bar, which we already have attached. So for the rear bar, we're gonna be looking at measurements M3 and M4. Now one of the measurements that they give you is going to determine how far apart your towers are and that measurement is taken from the inside edge to inside edge of your towers. There is this handy little scale that we have here though on the underside of the tower. It might be a little difficult to see, it's difficult to see with the naked eye, but you can use this scale to help determine where your tower needs to go. Now the instructions for the Sierra 1500 called for 44-5/8. However, after testing that out and putting it up there, we actually find that 45-1/4 is a much better fit. So I'm gonna move this along its edge until the edge hits the 45-1/4 mark. Take my provided Yakima tool and in this hole back here, not this one here, but this one here, I'm gonna go ahead and hold the tower in place and tighten this down. This is going to tighten that block, that T slotted block up against the underside of the bar. And we're gonna turn this until we get a popping noise from our tool. This is a torquing tool, so it is gonna let us know when we have it tightened properly, just like that. Now it's securely on there and it's in the spot where we want it. Now we can take our end cap and we can replace it. And the next step we'll take is to go ahead and take our foot pad here that came in our fit kit. Now the foot pad is gonna have an attachment point here that's gonna attach to this bar going across the bottom of our tower. We wanna make sure that this cavity in it is facing the outside. Now the M1 and the M3 measurements in your instructions are in reference to how far apart those towers are, which we just use the scale at the bottom of the bar to mark off where we need it to be, which was that 45-1/4. The other measurements that you're gonna see on there, the M2 and the M4 are gonna be in reference to where the bar is placed on your roof. So the first measurement for the front bar goes from the top of the windshield to the front of the tower. They want that at 13 inches. Then for the second bar placement, once you have this set is gonna go from the center of your front bar to the center of your second bar, and they're asking for 32 inches there. So we're gonna go ahead and get our bar and get it up close to that vicinity and we'll tighten it down at 32 inches. So our 32 inch mark is gonna be roughly around this area. So I'm gonna go ahead and get this seated up here. There is a little edge to the rubber foot pad that's gonna kind of come across this outer edge of the track up here on the roof. So I'm gonna set that in its spot and you know, get that seated nice up there. I'm gonna go ahead and do the same thing on the driver's side. And then I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna measure this out. Sorry, my 32 inch marks a little further back, right about here. So I'm gonna go ahead and get that measured out before I finally tighten it down. So now that I've got it in the general vicinity, what I'm gonna do is take my measuring tape and I'm gonna measure center of the bar to center of the bar, and the center of the bar basically comes to where the back of the weather stripping is. So I'm gonna start with the back of the weather stripping here, bring it over and I need to get it to 32 inches. So I gotta move it back a little bit. It's gonna be closer to this area here. And what I'm gonna be doing is just going back and forth. I wanna make sure I have that same 32 inches on the driver's side as the passenger side. That's gonna guarantee that my bars are perfectly parallel with each other. So with our bar spacing even on both sides, the next step we're gonna have is to take our clip and our Yakima tool and we're gonna get our clip inserted into our tower. So first what I'm gonna do is this kind of gray, it's almost like a door. I'm gonna just kind of pop that out. And what we'll find in there is a bolt hole for our tool and a slot right here that we're gonna just slide this into. And on the bottom of this metal block, there's a little latch that's gonna kind of keep it in place, but what we need to do at this point is get this snugged down some. So I'm gonna go ahead and tighten it down a little bit. Now I'm not trying to tighten this down really all the way at this point, what you really want to do is kind of get it to the point where it's snug and not really going anywhere. And this point here is where we want to end up with. But what I'm gonna be doing is tightening it down a little bit on this side and then a little bit on the driver's side. I don't want to totally tighten down one side and knock the looser side outta the place. So what we want these to do is kind of grab against each other up on the roof and be able to stay in one spot. So once I get this seated to right here to where it's like snug but not too tight, I'm gonna do the same thing on the other side and then incrementally tighten each side down until they're both completely tight. And once you've got it tighten down enough that both sides are feeling really snug, you could go ahead and finish tightening them down until you get that same popping sound out of the Yakima tool. There we go. Now once that's done on both sides, you can go ahead and close that little gray door up there. We're gonna take our tower cover and this has a kind of a hinge at the bottom here. We're just gonna set it on that, bring it up and pop it right into place. Now at this point would be a good time to go ahead and lock your towers. However, when you purchase them from Yakima, they don't come with the key cores. I would suggest that you purchase a set of key cores from us here at etrailer. They can be keyed alike to your other Yakima accessories. So if you have like five different Yakima items, including the bars, you don't need five keys. You keep them all keyed alike using their SKS system. So that's a pretty straightforward install. In fact, I think it's a rather easy install on this truck. And with all the features and benefits you do get out of the JetStream crossbars, I think this could be an excellent choice for you and your truck. Now if after watching this video you decide this is the crossbar set that you want to go with on your GMC Sierra 1500, go ahead and get 'em. Use 'em a few times and share what you think about 'em in the comments below. We'd love to share your experience with our other neighbors so they can make the best decision for themselves. I'm Curt with etrailer. Thanks for stopping by.
Ratings & Reviews
The crossbars are light and very strong. They fit perfectly and installed easily.
Very sturdy hold with a matte look and fine textured feel. Very light making for easy install.
So far so good. Purchased these towers to use on a 2022 GMC Canyon with HD bars that I already had, primarily to carry my canoe. Yakima's fitting instructions worked perfectly and the whole system seems really solid.
Nice solid crossbars and perfect fit for a Thule Hullivator kayak rack.
Ordering was a breeze. Fast shipping. Excellent communication. Product arrived well-packaged. Product easy to install; completely as described. Yakima products are superior-performers. etrailer is an excellent source for truck & trailer products.
George J.
Like to say thank you .
The roof rack for my 2022 trail boss looks great.
etrailer.com And Yakima roof racks has a VERY good product .
I would have given you guys more stars if I could.
Shipping Time , boxing of the product and the way everything went together was
A #1. Easy and fast.
Also, removal just as fast.
Thanks again.
I had a need for the Yakima Crossbars and Towers for my Expedition. With a short delivery time frame, I contacted etrailer knowing they are the best. Justin B. worked with me to get the correct parts then made sure that the products arrived in time, it did. The Towers, Bars and overall excellent customer service from etrailer made for a great experience. Thanks again for exceeding expectations etrailer!
Love my Yakima roof rack!! It exceeds my expectations.great product. Also thank etrailer for the tec support! great staff always there to help thanks again!!
Product was factory new and arrived in excellent condition. Customer service was outstanding. Teresa went out of her way to answer all my questions regarding fit and product availability. She tracked down the appropriate parts and got them shipped quickly. Etrailer product tracking system is much better than the competition . I will definitely use them again!
All aspects of the purchase and installation were great. Based on the information provided on the etrailer.com website, I had a high level of confidence that I was purchasing the correct product(s) for my vehicle. The installation was relatively simple and straightforward and the rack is rock solid on my roof. It appears that I did a great job of following the directions :)
High quality bars that were easy to install to the Skyline towers and work great with our Yakima JayLow kayak carriers.
The bars are sturdy, aerodynamic and super strong. I bought this to fit a Yakima Skybox 16 and these worked great. The measurement ticks on the bottom assist with getting the box centered and have a great gasket system that you fit yourself. These mounted pretty quick even in 20 degree weather.
etrailer sold this as a set based on my car and every piece was great and a perfect fit. Communication and tracking info was great and they delivered it a day before promised.
These Yakima crossbars are a part of the Yakima towers I bought to install on my Jeep Cherokee to hold a pair of Kayaks. They fit great as advertised. In fact I got these discounted as an open box. I would have never known, they look brand new. Thank you etrailer for your great advice, customer service and quick shipping process.
Yakima towers and crossbars were solid and easy to install with the very well written instructions. We used them on 2 cross country trips with any loosening. They were easy to remove. We plan to use them again as the need arises.
Excellent product. These bars are very quiet and look great on our truck. Assembly and installation was straightforward. We've used these bars to secure our large Yakima car top carrier and have traveled on several trips to the mountains and cabin with no issues. I suggest ordering an extra set of end caps as we've lost one in the car wash. However, have had no problems with the bars when going through the car wash.
As always, I GREATLY appreciate the superior product support that etrailer.com provides. They have the best product content on the web, hands down.
1 year later and still love my Yakima JetStream system. I've mostly used them to transport my kayak however I've also been able to transport some big box store items as well. They are very versatile. There is a t-track option as well as wrap around attachments. I've use ladder attachments, eyebolts, and Thule Hullavator in t-track. I've used Malone MegaWing and Yakima Skybox as wrap around attachment. What I really like about the t-track system is that you do not need to cut out the rubber track insert. You simply slide over the rubber, which allows you to adjust your system, on the fly, to load what you need to carry.
Great UX for finding the options matching my car, and the baseline towers work great. Simple straightforward site, will plan to use them again when needed.
For those also buying crossbars for cars without roof rails, recommend taking a silver sharpie and marking the placement of the crossbars on the weather seal at the top of the door openings. Makes putting them back on way less of a hassle if you don’t want them on 24/7.
Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
The product itself was excellent. However, it came with no installation instructions showing how to remove and replace the shorter cross-bars. Fortunately, my son-in-law who is an engineer and very knowledgeable figured it out and did the installation.
Product exactly as expected. Quality bars. Using on a 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L. Looks great installed. Little to no wind noise. And, as usual, top notch service by the etrailer crew! Have purchased several items from etrailer over the past 10 years and have always been impressed by how timely they are and how responsive and helpful they have been regarding product questions. They are absolutely the first merchant I go to when shopping on line!
The Yakima rack system for my 2015 Ford Fusion is an awesome product! I hadn't needed to buy aftermarket racks in many years. These are a super solid, beefy, and very well made product. I am very impressed with the quality and fit. Yakima has obviously put lots of design time into them. And etrailer does an outstanding job of making sure you get the right product for your specific need.
I chose this rack specifically because of the spread between the bars - 32" - and for the higher weight limit, as I'm carrying a fishing kayak.
Not a bad setup. I dont believe you need the 60" bars i received as they hang over the edge of your Hyundai. You need to watch your head getting in and out of your vehicle. The Jetstream crossbars are very loud at speeds over 65 mph. Im probably used to it by now, but it is definitely noticeable. Much louder than an older Rhino Rack of similar dimensions i had. Install was simple and took about 30 minutes, just take your time and measure correctly like all roof racks.
Great product haven’t had any issues with it. Would highly recommend that anyone that’s looking for a roof rack system and a great seller at etrailer
I have a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT which has the non-functional roof side bars. Etrailer.com helped me figure this out and gave me several options that would work. As I already have Yakima bike racks - I wanted to stick with the brand. The price on etrailer.com was the same as Yakima but had free shipping and no tax - awesome. Product arrived quickly!
I went with the Yakima 60" Jetstream cross bars, baseline towers, and the appropriate pads and clips.
The Yakima product came with thorough and easy to understand instructions. I was able to get the track installed and working in about an hour - and that was taking it slow and double checking everything. I was very pleased with the fit and finish.
After a test run, there was no wind noise or issue with the rack. Looking forward to taking a road trip next month with it!
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