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These custom clips and pads let you mount Yakima BaseLine towers on your vehicle with a naked roof. Clips attach to hooks in tower assemblies, and pads clip to bottoms of towers.
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DropHook System Installation
Custom-fit BaseClips let you mount BaseLine towers (sold separately) to your vehicle with a naked roof. To install, remove the tower's cover, open the gray door inside the assembly, and attach the clip to the DropHook inside.
The clip adjusts on 3 axes during installation to ensure a perfect, secure fit on your door jamb. Once the tower and clip are seated correctly, simply tighten the clip down, close the door, and replace the cover.
The included molded rubber pads protect your roof from scratches and abrasions. The pads easily clip onto the bottoms of the towers and are specifically designed to fit the shape and contour of your roof.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on our 2017 Ford F150 we're going to test fitting the Yakima Jet Stream Crossbar Roof Rack System. This is going to be consisting of part numbers Y00426, these are the Jet Stream Crossbars, 60" long. These are also available in silver, part number Y00429. We'll also be using part number Y00146, these are the baseline towers for the Yakima Crossbars, and part number Y06122. You're going to have two kits of these, and this is the base clip fit kit for the F150. The Yakima Jet Stream Roof Rack System is great for carrying a wide variety of objects up on the top of your roof while freeing up space both inside your vehicle and in the bed of the truck. It can also serve as an extension for your ladder rack if you have one on your truck for carrying loads such as ladder, lumber, or whatever it is you're hauling.
Opening up the end cap here you can see it has the rubber strip in the center, and that couple with the aerodynamic shape of the bar is going to cut down wind noise and drag while you drive. Unlike the other roof rack systems where you would actually have to remove the rubber strip and cut it to length this one just pushes down so you can slide your T-track accessories in that way without having to alter your roof rack at all. When you're done with that you just put the end cap back into place and you're good to go. The two bars have a combined carry capacity of 165 pounds, although you always want to double check with your vehicle's manual to make sure it can withstand those weights. Now that we've gone over some of the features of the roof rack system let's go ahead and show you how it installs. We have our rear bar partially assembled on our table here and we'll finish it up by placing our other tower on the other end.
We'll start by taking our tower and placing this plastic piece from our kit that comes with the bar, this is the adapter for this particular bar. We'll set that in place. Then you'll see that it has a screw in the center, we'll take our metal piece here, fit that in there. Then we'll take our included tightening tool and start to tighten it down with the screw in the bottom here, but not all the way as this still needs to slide into our bar. Now you see that it has this little lip here, that's actually going to fit into the T-slot at the end of our bar. All right, once we have this pushed into place we'll go by our measurements here on our actual bar to get the spread between our towers correct. You can see the numbers here, and you can find these numbers in your instructions as to where you're going to have these set.
Then we'll finish completely tightening this down to the actual bar. Right now we can't get to our screw because it's blocked off by this plastic piece. To loosen that up we'll pull out on the end like that, and we'll be able to tighten it down. Now the nice thing about this tool is once it's completely torqued it'll make a couple snaps like that, and you know it's torqued down properly. Next is going to be our adjustments here, which you'll see these three notches. Now according to the instructions we're going to have to have this set back so it's already exactly where it's supposed to be.
So we'll tighten that screw down as well. Our final step is we're going to take our end cap, push that in place, then we'll take our pad from our fit kit and push that on the end as well. Now we're ready to set this on the roof of our vehicle. Let's set these on top. No place in particular, we're just getting it set down, and then we'll go refer to our instructions again and get our cross bar spread measurement from center of the bar to center of the bar. We'll open up our rear door, open up this door as well, then we'll take our clamp which is included with our fit kit, kind of push that in place. You can see it kind of floats above where it needs to be right now and to fix that we'll come to this screw up at the top, turn it to the right, and that'll lower it to where it needs to be. Then we'll also snug it up a little bit, not tighten it, just get it to the place where it goes right against the door edge here. Then we'll repeat this process for the passenger side. Now a nice thing about this is we didn't have to put the clamp on it until we actually had the roof rack itself sitting on top of the vehicle. A lot of the time you'll have other roof rack systems where that clamp is just going to be hanging down, and the chance of scratching your car is just a little bit greater with that. Now we'll tighten them down completely. You'll know it's tightened after that clicks. We'll close that up, and our final step is going to be to install our end caps here. They have these catches on the end which go into these points here, and just push into place. There you have it for the Yakima Jet Stream Crossbar Roof Rack System on our 2017 Ford F150.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (58 Customer Reviews)
These custom clips and pads let you mount Yakima BaseLine towers on your vehicle with a naked roof. Clips attach to hooks in tower assemblies, and pads clip to bottoms of towers.These were easy to install on my F150 and work well thus far. 514461
Great product, well made. 402190
The products were all as explained. No issues on installation. 294955
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I want to thank the staff at eTrailer for their outstanding support. After my roof rack order got off to a shaky start the customer service staff stepped in and made it right; 100% RIGHT. I cannot thank them, and eTrailer, enough. Regarding the roof rack itself, I have now installed it and can vouch that the installation was a breeze. All parts fit and the instructions were correct. For the record, this is not my first purchase from eTrailer (I've bought hitch items from them before) and it won't be my last. They have ALWAYS given great service, their web site works, their products and descriptions are good, etc., etc. Thank you! 326325
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Hyundai Sonata - glass pano roof. These items have been on for about 1-year. So happy with the set up. I’ve take a road bike and a mountain bike on 500+ mile trips. The mounts do an excellent job. 482166
JD - 03/07/2019Review from a similar Yakima BaseClips in Roof Rack
Customer service was excellent, they called me to tell me one item was backordered and how long it would be. Package was shipped with enough packing material. Install was pretty easy, some of the Yakima measurements in the manual are a couple inches off but no big deal. This will be used to carry a box for when the family takes trips. Can pile all the luggage up top and have more room in the car. I would recommend the Yakima corebar roof rack and etrailer! Their price was lower than 2 other sites I checked. 580575
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Thank you for quality accessories and for fast delivery. 739741
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Works great and easy to install 735703
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Works great and easy to install. 735702
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Good product. A little tricky to set up but everyone can do it 718966
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Looks good, very solid. Although, I have yet to put it through its paces. But seems very secure and will definitely do the job. 707443
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excellent design with easy to follow in structions 693707
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Great product and Sales Support from etrailer. I bought this for my Son as a Grad/BDay gift for a Honda HR-V which has slightly odd roof/door shape He installed it himself said the install was straightforward but the instructions could use a little improvement. etrailer Sales Support was great, I was a little concerned about getting the right parts and the return policy. Olivia was great to work with, she offered recommendations and matched the parts to the type and vehicle it was to be installed on along with a kayak mount. All the parts arrived in mint condition with no missing pieces. I'll for sure return to etrailer on future purchases. 666102
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Great product and Sales Support from etrailer. I bought this for my Son as a Grad/BDay gift for a Honda HR-V which has slightly odd roof/door shape He installed it himself said the install was straightforward but the instructions could use a little improvement. etrailer Sales Support was great, I was a little concerned about getting the right parts and the return policy. Olivia was great to work with, she offered recommendations and matched the parts to the type and vehicle it was to be installed on along with a kayak mount. All the parts arrived in mint condition with no missing pieces. I'll for sure return to etrailer on future purchases. 666104
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Bought the rack kit for my truck a the fit was great 666052
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I ordered the Yakima "aero" bars , baseline towers, and BaseClip kits for my 2019 Honda Civic 5 door. While expensive the quality is excellent and it was a pleasure to assemble such a high quality and precision engineered product. It fits perfectly on my new car and the "aero" bars are quiet even at freeway speeds. Highly recommended. 660646
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My roof rack was for my Prius V. Following all directions, the roof rack went up fine and fits tightly...no worries there. And, the rack just seems too far forward because it slopes down. I can probably adjust this out by widening the front slightly and pushing the whole rig back maybe 6" to a foot. Basically, it is a workable rack and salvages parts from an older rack. It does what I want. 651917
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Arrived in good condition, all parts were there and it was easy to install. 597425
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Customer service was excellent, they called me to tell me one item was backordered and how long it would be. Package was shipped with enough packing material. Install was pretty easy, some of the Yakima measurements in the manual are a couple inches off but no big deal. This will be used to carry a box for when the family takes trips. Can pile all the luggage up top and have more room in the car. I would recommend the Yakima corebar roof rack and etrailer! Their price was lower than 2 other sites I checked. 580577
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Awesome! Thank you! 576106
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Awesome! Thank you! 576107
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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. 559496
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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. 559497
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Great product! Yakima is hard to beat! 551790
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