Yakima 0124c Q Tower Complete Gutterless Car Roof Rack
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 | | |Yakima 0124c Q Tower Complete Gutterless Car Roof Rack
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The Yakima Q Tower Complete Gutterless Car Roof Rack for Vehicles without Rain Gutters or Factory Racks is the answer to racking cars and vehicles without rain gutters. The Q Towers rest on a soft rubber pad which sits toward edge of your car roof. Q Clips, which are designed specifically for each vehicle, fasten your Q Towers to your door jamb for a tight, custom fit. The snap-down clamping mechanism allows for easy installation and removal of the rack. 4 Q Towers, 2 Round bars, 4 Q Clips and 4 end caps are included in this package. SKS Lock Cores are sold separately. Yakima's recommended Round bar length will be supplied unless otherwise specified.
The Yakima Q Tower Complete Gutterless Car Roof Rack for Vehicles without Rain Gutters or Factory Racks is the answer to racking cars and vehicles without rain gutters. The Q Towers rest on a soft rubber pad which sits toward edge of your car roof. Q Clips, which are designed specifically for each vehicle, fasten your Q Towers to your door jamb for a tight, custom fit. The snap-down clamping mechanism allows for easy installation and removal of the rack. 4 Q Towers, 2 Round bars, 4 Q Clips and 4 end caps are included in this package. SKS Lock Cores are sold separately. Yakima's recommended Round bar length will be supplied unless otherwise specified.
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Beware Q towers on small cars! I installed Yakima Q-towers on my 2008 Honda Civic. The directions and installation process were well-written and easy to use, and I painstakingly applied every measurement exactly as directed. When I finished, I could grab the rack bars and shake the car back and forth without budging the racks. I was horrified six weeks later when the entire system flew off my car at 70 MPH, destroying my wife's and my surfboard. I mailed the entire setup back to Yakima at my own expense, and have recieved nothing but grief from them. Since then, I have stumbled across ELEVEN other people who have experienced catastrophic failures of their Q-tower system- almost all of them have been installed on small, low-profile vehicles. Engineers and rack reps have explained that Yakima uses a few clip designs to fit many different models of car (Thule, by contrast, designs a specific clip for every individual vehicle.) The Q-tower base system also has an intermittent flaw of loosening due to road vibrations, even when installed tightly. These problems in combination make Yakima Q-towers very slippery, and thus undependable. Thule racks are a bit pricier, and definitely uglier, but not as ugly, or as expensive, as your prized possessions crushed under an 18-wheeler.