This snow sport carrier lets you transport 4 pairs of skis or 2 snowboards on your roof rack. Large push-button lets you open carrier easily. SkiLift system accommodates tall bindings. Includes universal mounting hardware and locks.
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Speaker 1: Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Yakima FreshTrack 6 rooftop ski and snowboard carrier. This will carry six skis or four boards with part number Y03093. It's also available as the FreshTrack 4 to carry four skis or two boards with part number Y03092. This retro-style Yakima carrier will allow you to transport skis, snowboards, and even fishing poles in the warmer months.Like most good quality carriers, it has a large push button here in the front, so you can easily access the inside even with oversize mittens or gloves. And the spring-loaded design allows the carrier to stay open for easier loading. Here on the inside, the thick rubber cushions on the top and the bottom help stabilize and protect your gear.
When it closes, you can see how it conforms around your gear, holding it in place.I've gone ahead and removed the skis and snowboards so we can take a closer look. With the carriers installed, they're going to add about 5 and 7/8ths of an inch to the height from the top of your crossbar. On the FreshTrack 6, which is what this is, it offers about 30 inches of usable space. On the FreshTrack 4, it offers about 20 inches of usable space.The carriers mount to your crossbars using the clamp style only. The buttons feature locks.
That way, no one can remove your gear, and two keys are included. Here, I have the FreshTrack 4 in place. It has all of the same features as the FreshTrack 6. You just can't hold as many skis or boards. The benefit of it being smaller, though, is you may have more room for accessories on the roof of your vehicle.So Jonathan works with our customers.
Jonathan, what are some questions our customers are wanting to know about ski and snowboard carriers Jonathan: Well, one of our most common questions is, "Will this ski carrier fit on my roof rack" Speaker 1: Well, the clamps are very universal. They're going to fit crossbars right around 3 and a half inches wide, and they're about an inch and 3/4 tall. So they're going to work with most aero style round or square, and maybe even some factory. Do the customers have any more questions Jonathan: That was really our most common question that we get about these. Speaker 1: Okay.
Jonathan: One thing I notice, though, is when the carrier is fully loaded, the button becomes difficult to push. So what I've found is that if you apply a little bit of down pressure and then push the button, it pops- Speaker 1: It just opens right up. That's a really good tip. Yeah, thanks a lot. Jonathan: You're welcome. Speaker 1: Now that we've gone over the features, I'll go ahead and show you how to get it installed. We've already got the rear ski carrier installed. Let's go ahead and install the front one together. It installs the exact same way. When you get your carrier, we've got some assembly we've got to do. We've got to put our clamps on. Now, the clamps come pre-assembled. We just need to install them on the carrier.What we want to do is start by taking the screw out of the top, and we're going to install the clamp on the bottom. Now, we want to line up the hole on our clamp with the hole on the carrier. An easy way to do this is to grab the screw and open it up and insert the screw through the top opening here. Now, we can put our clamps into position. So we'll just line it up with our hardware, put it in place, and start tightening it down with the included tool. Perfect.Now, one thing to consider doing is to install the clamps so they're going the same direction and also install them so they're going to be facing the rear of your vehicle. With the knobs in the rear, it's going to cut down on your wind noise. Now, we're just about ready to put it on our roof rack system. We want to make sure that our clamps are opened up, so we want to loosen up our hand knob and push the T-bolt through. We'll turn it so it's vertical, and then we're going to pull it through our clamp, just like that. And we want to do that for both.With both of our clamps opened up, we now want to set the size of our clamp. We've got three different options here. Since we're working with the Yakima JetStream roof rack system, we're going to go with the default position, which is right in the center. You can set yours to whatever works best with your application. I'm just going to put it in position, and now, we're ready to go.Now, let's set it in place. What we want to do here is make sure it's in line with the rear. So I'm just going to rest it down and then eye it up. Once it's in line with the rear, we're ready to connect our clamps. So we want to bring it around. We want to feed that T-bolt back through, same way we took it out. Once you've got the T-bolt through, you then want to turn it to the other position, and then we can start tightening it down. And you just want to make sure that it stays in that same position until it locks into place. And I'm just going to loosely install it until we get the other side in position.With them both loosely installed, we can go ahead and tighten them down completely. And finally, we can tighten down our security screw with our security wrench, and this is going to prevent anyone from loosening up our knobs. With both carriers installed, let's go ahead and push on the button to open them up, and we'll load up some snowboards and some skis. All right. With everything loaded up, let's go ahead and close up our carriers, and then we'll lock them up. And that's going to complete our look at the Yakima FreshTrack ski and snowboard carrier.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 Customer Reviews)
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