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Hello, neighbor. This is Curt with etrailer and today we're gonna be taking a look at the Yakima SightLine FX roof rack and see how it fits with and how to install it on our 2024 Mazda CX-50. Now if after watching this video, you decide this is the roof rack for you, you get it, you use it a few times, go ahead and share what you think about it in the comments below. We would love to use your experience to help our other neighbors make the best decision for themselves. Now, carrying extra cargo in your vehicle or in your CX-50 on an adventure, you maybe have a lot of passengers or you might have some cargo with you that you either can't fit or just don't want inside the vehicle traveling with you. A roof rack can be an excellent option to be able to carry that extra cargo, whether it's gonna be a cargo basket or box, water sport carrier, like for, you know, water skis or a kayak or ski and snowboard.
All sorts of things can be put on a roof rack in order to help you enjoy your next adventure to the fullest. Now the Yakima SightLine FX is a flush roof rack, and what that means is that the crossbars don't extend and hang out past the towers. They're gonna pretty much dead end there. Now while you do lose crossbar space when you have a system like that, really the flush rails, like you're looking at right now, or the flush crossbars, actually have a little bit of a cleaner look to most people's eye and they look a little bit more factory in that sense as well. You're still gonna have plenty of room to put things up here.
You can use clamp-mounted or T-track-mounted accessories on this roof rack. It is an aero-style bar. So as opposed to a round or a square bar, this is gonna be a little bit more streamlined. It is really gonna help you out with a lot of that extra road noise that you might experience with those other bar styles. But with all that being said, let's get up on our roof and take a few measurements and see how it fits.
The Yakima bars do have to go in a specific placement, so there's not really a whole lot you could do to really adjust your crossbar spread or anything like that with this set. But with that being said, I'm gonna go ahead and take a measurement right now of our crossbar spread. And that's coming out to just a hair over 32 inches, and that's actually perfect. Most crossbar accessories end up being between like the 28 and 36 inch mark, so a 32 inch set of bars should be able to accommodate just about anything you want to put up here. However, it's always a good idea to double check.
The other things we're gonna be taking a look at is just how much bar space do you have to work with. Now because of the taper of these factory rails, the front bar is gonna have more space than our back bar. So we're gonna take a measurement of the back bar and that'll be giving us a better idea of what we have to work with up here, and which is gonna be about 33 and a half inches. So whatever you're putting up here, you know, it doesn't really give you much opportunity to put things side by side like an overhanging bar would, but you've got a lot of room to work with up here for any type of, you know, rooftop box or anything like that. The other thing we want to take a look at is how much height does this actually add to the vehicle So we're gonna go ahead and take a measurement from the middle here and I'm just gonna measure slightly above to account for these towers. But we're looking at this adding just under five inches of height to your vehicle. So be mindful of that, especially if you have accessories up here. If you're going into a parking garage or anything like that, you wanna know what your overhead clearance is. And we're also gonna take a measurement of how much space we have between the bottom of the bar and the rooftop as well. This will help you make sure that any kind of those clamp-style accessories are gonna be able to fit around it with clearance. So we're right at three and a quarter inches from the roof to the bottom of the bar. Again, I think that's plenty of room to be able to get just about anything you need to up here. So I mentioned that these are flush crossbars. There is no overhang. So as you can see here from the door threshold, unlike some of the overhanging bars on a vehicle this height, this is not gonna be something that you have to worry about head cleara
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