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Yakima BaseLine Roof Rack for Naked Roofs - RoundBar Crossbars - Steel - Black - Qty 2

Part Number: Y69VB
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These strong, galvanized steel crossbars supply the backbone for this Yakima roof rack. The rack works with accessories that clamp around the bars. Vinyl coating helps resist corrosion. Installs on your vehicle's naked roof. Great Prices for the best roof rack from Yakima. Yakima BaseLine Roof Rack for Naked Roofs - RoundBar Crossbars - Steel - Black - Qty 2 part number Y69VB can be ordered online at etrailer.com or call 1-800-940-8924 for expert service.
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Yakima Roof Rack - Y69VB

Highlights

  • Custom Fit for Your Vehicle: Installs on your roof with a kit designed for your vehicle.
  • Complete Roof Rack System: Includes 2 RoundBars, 4 BaseLine towers, 4 adapters, and a custom fit kit for your vehicle.
  • Strong Load Support: Steel construction with 165-lb capacity provides confidence for hauling gear and watercraft.
  • Protected Against Corrosion: Black vinyl coating helps resist rust and wear in all weather conditions.
  • Accessory-Ready Bars: Round crossbars work with carriers and accessories that clamp around the bars.
  • Added Theft Deterrence: Compatible with Yakima Same Key System (SKS) lock cores (sold separately).

Features to know about

Haul Heavy Gear with Confidence: Strong Galvanized Steel Bars

These crossbars form a solid backbone for your setup. Made from galvanized steel, they handle up to 165 lbs of gear without flexing or giving up stability. The black vinyl coating protects against corrosion, so you can load kayaks, canoes, or cargo boxes through any season without worrying about rust.

Fit the Naked Roof Right: Custom Installation with BaseLine Towers

When you’re working with a bare roof, getting a secure fit is everything. This system includes 4 BaseLine towers, 4 adapters, and a custom fit kit built for a precise setup on naked roofs. The design locks in snugly and looks clean once installed—no uneven gaps or awkward clamps hanging off the edge.

Mount Any Adventure Gear: RoundBars Work with Clamp-On Accessories

If your gear clamps around the bar, you’re set. These round crossbars are built to work with carriers and accessories that use wraparound mounts—great for kayak cradles, cargo baskets, or ski racks. The 58" long bars give you plenty of space to position your attachments just how you want them.

Keep It Looking Good Over Time: Black Vinyl Protection

Every trip adds wear to your gear, but the black vinyl coating helps these bars keep their finish intact. It shields the steel underneath from weather and road grime while matching most accessories for a clean, uniform look on top of your vehicle.

Add Theft Deterrence When You Need It: SKS Lock Compatibility

You can upgrade security with Yakima Same Key System (SKS) lock cores, sold separately. Once installed, they help deter theft of the rack so you can leave your setup in place when you stop for food or park overnight on a trip.

Specs

Dimensions

  • Crossbar dimensions: 58" long x 1-1/8" diameter

Weight and Capacity

  • Weight capacity: 165 lbs

Color

  • Color: black

Construction

  • Construction: steel

Warranty

  • Limited lifetime warranty

8000409 Yakima Round Crossbars - Steel - Black - 58" Long - Qty 2

8000162 Yakima BaseLine Towers for CoreBar, JetStream, and RoundBar Crossbars - Bare Roofs - Qty 4

8006109 Custom BaseClips and Pads for Yakima BaseLine Towers

8003536 RoundBar StreamLine Adapter for Yakima BaseLine, SkyLine, TimberLine, and RidgeLine Towers - Qty 4

Installation Details Y69VB Installation instructionsAlternate Instructions Y69VB Installation instructions





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etrailer rocks! Great customer service and support. All pieces worked as promised and for my vehicle.

A bit disappointed that Yakima towers do not have a height adjustment so I can make both round crossbars level to keep my canoes from catching too much air on the highway. My vehicles roof flush rails are are curved vertically and change widths front to back. Had to Mickey Mouse the back crossbar to make it higher with PVC brick moulding.

Also the tower covers with the Yakima label don't clip on strongly enough so I had to add duct tape because I did not trust them to stay on.
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I was able to use these clips to mount a roof rack and roof box on my Audi that had a naked roof, and they did the job! I took it on a 1,200 mile road trip and after I returned there wasn’t any damage to the paint, and even though there are rubber inserts on the inside of the clip to prevent scratches I was still a bit surprised.

If you don’t have roof rails on your car, these definitely help!
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Gwendolyn Y.

7/7/2025

That sounds like you had an amazing trip, Ryan! What places did you travel to?

by:
Like that I can use the bar from my Yakima rack and with base mod can fit it to the rail on my new car. Appreciated Eli's help in putting my order together to be able to make this conversion.
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Products great. Service and delivery from you company was not acceptable. when I placed my order you missed your delivery date by five days. Not sure how this happened, but requested help was not available.
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High quality. Adapter to use modern towers with my 2003 round tube cross members.
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These convertors will allow me to continue to use my hullavator system currently on round bars. The drop in feature of skyline towers makes the whole change out a snap. Certainly better than buying a whole new hullavator.
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Sally

6/30/2025

Perfect. It makes changing out to load my kayak super simple.

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Customer service was extremely helpful in finding the exact replacement parts needed for my old car!
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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
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Brooke M.

2/26/2025

Thanks, Eric! Glad the crossbars have been working well for you :)

by:
I give it a five because it is exactly what I ordered. But I think the shipping was a little slow.
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Toyota 4Runner
Kimberly has shown that great customer service is not dead! etrailer and Kimberly are great to work with and have earned my business and will always be the 1st and last place I look for my rack+ needs!
As for the application, I needed more space to fit my cargo box on top of my 4Runner TRD Pro’s rack. I came up this this… Thank you!
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As all yakima products not the cheapest but work
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2025 Kia Sportage
Straightforward installation to adapt the new SkyLine towers to the standard Yakima round bars.
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Really easy to install & work as specified. So happy with the customer support/service at etrailer.
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Excellent service and fast shipping.
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Yakima Crossbars were as you would expect - steel bars coated in a soft black coating (be mindful when you are utilizing these with the top mounts as the clamp will eat through the soft coating when you tighten them down). I had issues with my yakima round bar setup as the brackets and tower system were allowing water to leak in. This is in no way reflective of what youll experience but Yakima has superb support. I spoke with them twice on my issue and out of their kindness they shipped me an entire setup to replace my existing one for free.
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Product works as advertised thus far. When you buy the yakima towers, you are required to purchase these as well to fit the rounder bars (I feel sure there are other adapters for other bar shapes). These should have come with the towers in my opinion, and I resented having to shell out more $$ to purchase these "must have" adapters to mount my bars. 3 star overall rating based on function, price. Delivery and packaging was top-notch through etrailer.
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Toyota Prius
I ordered a Yakima Roof Rack for my Toyota Prius from eTrailer.com. Part of the reason for purchasing from eTrailer.com was the promise that the racks were made specifically for the car and would not dent the roof.

I received the rack on July 31, and installed the racks on my Prius according to instructions included with the racks. Our tandem kayak is 65 lbs . The towers were placed on the outer most part of the roof as indicated by the instructions. Yakima saddles were attached to the crossbars to hold the kayak. Nothing was close or touching the top of the roof. We transported the kayak to a nearby lake, 6 miles, and back. The next day we removed the racks from the roof and noticed 4 dents on the top of the roof. It was obvious that transporting the kayak on the rack caused the dents.

We had to pay $100 to have the dents removed from the Prius roof.

I cannot continue to use this rack that puts dents in the car's roof. I was extremely disappointed in the racks. In reading the Toyota manual and contacting them by phone, there is no mention of using or not using roof racks.

I was shocked to learn from Rachel at eTrailer.com that your company takes absolutely no responsibility for this Yakima product they sell. The best they can do is to pass the buck and refer us to Yakima.

Very disappointed, and out a lot of money for a product that damages your car. Will not recommend or buy here again. eTrailer.com does not even deserve one star in this review.
by:
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.
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The Yakima roof rack system is an Outstanding product. I purchased the product to replace the OEM roof rack because it was too flimsy to carry the tandem bike mount and my bike. The Yakima roof rack is solid and provides me the peace of mind while hauling my bike on the roof of my car. etrailer provided the product for the best price as always.
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2019 Toyota Sienna
Installation of the hitch, wiring,rear bike rack, and new roof rack towers went well. I didn't set any speed records, but I was more concerned with doing no damage on a new 2019 Toyota Sienna AWD van. The hitch fit up well per instructions except that I was able to work around the exhaust without lowering it. Underbody panel and rear fascia did both need to be removed. Very happy with the end result. The new van is now set up to haul the bikes and canoes and move my log splitter.
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As always an exceptionally well designed, quality product. Yakima has never disappointed me for more than 25 years now. I still use some of my original rack package. etrailer, per usual, had a great price and wonderful instructional videos. Shipping was fast and everything was perfect. It’s amazing that Yakima can make racks fit so many cars like it was a custom job. This was just a piece of an entire roof rack base with cross bars. Excellent stuff
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Ordered new towers and clips so as to use my old-school round bars (I bought these at least 18 years ago, maybe even earlier) and bike and canoe accessories on a new vehicle (naked roof 2018 CR-V). Installation was tedious, as usual, but not difficult and the written instructions were straightforward. Youtube helpful too but not necessary. Have hauled bikes and the canoe in high wind on the interstate (no more than 65 mph though) on the CR-V and so far so good. Have had excellent results with Yakima racks on 3 vehicles now (2 sedans and now the CR-V) over last 28 yrs. This is my first purchase through etrailer. Very pleased. Good price, excellent service online and via phone, rapid delivery. Highly recommend.
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2005 BMW X3
functioned as promised
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Vincent

7/28/2025

Took them on a 5000 mile road trip across the border. Stayed tight never loosened, kept everything secure. Unfortunately, I no longer have that vehicle and my current one, it does not fit. Do you know anybody who might want to buy it? It is in almost new shape!

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The roof mounts were fairly easy to install with the help of the well written installation instructions. I am looking forward to using my new Yakima roof rack for hauling my ladders or a rooftop clamshell cargo bin that I have.
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Ford F-250 Super Duty
This was my second large order from Etrailer.com and my wife I are VERY pleased! Our first order was a Curt 5th wheel hitch which performed as advertised - so easy to use.
Now we haul our 5th wheel camper and that takes up my entire full sized F250 truck bed which in turn messed up hauling the kayaks back there. I was leaning toward rigging something up on the back of the camper, saw lots of posts on how to many looked very sketchy. Rather than risk dumping our two $$$ fishing kayaks onto the highway.... somewhere..... we bought this GREAT Yakima roof rack system for the TOP of my truck cab. You see, it made me uneasy that I wouldn't be able to keep an eye on our boats if strapped to the back AND we read about many horror stories not limited to the rear bumper falling off from fatigue. Yakima Install; I'm a General Contractor and fancy myself a pretty handy guy so mounting the towers, the rack bars, and all of the accessories onto those took a total three hours. [on-line] videos very useful and follow the easy to read instructions that come with each part and you'll have NO trouble. I have to add, etrailer said it would take one week but I received the complete order within four days. Thank you etrailer for making the ordering through delivery experience so very streamlined!
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