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The Yakima BaseLine FX keeps things clean and streamlined. Its flush-mount design means the bars don’t hang past the towers, giving your setup that factory-installed look instead of a bulky add-on. The crossbars sit low and tight to the roofline, so everything looks neat and balanced while still delivering solid performance.
Driving with bars on your roof usually means some whistling or vibration, but the JetStream design helps quiet it down. These aero-style aluminum crossbars shape the airflow to reduce drag and noise. Push-down rubber strips in the top channel help seal things up, cutting wind noise even more while keeping your accessories snug and steady on long drives.
You can pack for any adventure with these crossbars. They’re compatible with most bike, watersport, snow, and cargo carriers, so you can load up kayaks in summer or skis in winter without switching racks. The bars work with both channel-mount accessories that slide into the top track and clamp-on styles that wrap around, giving you flexibility across all your gear setups.
The aluminum construction keeps things light but strong. With a weight capacity of 165 lbs—always within your vehicle’s roof load limit—you can count on these bars to handle your camping gear, watercraft, or rooftop box with ease. Yakima backs it all with a limited lifetime warranty for lasting peace of mind.
If you want extra security for your rack and attachments, you can add Yakima’s Same Key System (SKS) lock cores, sold separately. They help deter theft of both the rack itself and any channel-mounted gear you leave installed between trips.
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Ratings & Reviews
the product is excellent. very good quality material. the measurement given for my 2016 wrx are not exactly what they should be.
Great! Easy to install!
Works perfect
Works Perfect!
Great product! Yakima is hard to beat!
Very secure and looking good after our 4,000 mole trip
Works well and fits well. Have used for several trips totaling more than 4,000 miles.
After a year, the racks are holding up nicely and still have a solid fit. I only put them on the car when needed. It just takes a few minutes to set them up and go.
Installed on my wife's car and she loves it. Even bought kayak attachment and it works great.
Ackage came 2 days early the install was somewhat easy (did it by myself)
Did not get to mount anything to it but seems really sturdy. One thing I can say is mark out your mounting points with provided stickers then put up and make adjustments to the roof rack.
Great customer service, definitely order from etrailer again.
Took longer than expected to receive order but knew when order was placed it would be over a month to receive complete order.
What I was disappointed in was the installation information, much more complicated than anticipated. Would be better if instructions were provided in one language not multiple, too much text to sort through.
Just seems overly confusing, could be done a lot better.
The towers are of great quality and construction. Instructions were semi-simple but as long as you read everything twice it’s easy. Great product, I’m very happy with my purchase!
Bought as a pkg for my 2017 Golf R with Round Bars since I had a bunch of Yakima bike racks and a canoe gunwale rack for my old Yakima set up. Installation was easy with good instructions. All measurements from the Yakima site appear to be spot on.
etrailer.com shipped these out quickly and all parts arrived without damage.
Relatively easy to install on my VW Golf (etrailer videos are very helpful) and sooooo useful with my Yakima skybox. Not much road noise, so I can leave the rack on even when I am not using it.
I choose etrailer simply because they mailed to APO. I’m a AD SM, and a lot of companies don’t shop to APO. As soon as I ordered my product, I received an email as a courtesy from etrailer letting me know I had an individual that would be tracking my product every step of the way, reassuring a smooth process. Their site functionality was easy, their customer service was great. I wanted to know if they had bike racks that would fit my cross bars, I got a email right away with a suggestion and a link that would fit my needs. I’ll definitely order from etrailer if I ever need to again.
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