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Hello, neighbor, this is Curt with etrailer, and today we're gonna be taking a look at the Thule WingBar Edge roof rack and see how it works with our 2024 Mazda CX-50. Now, if after watching this video, you decide that this is the roof rack for you and you go ahead and get it, put it on you, use it a few times, go ahead and share with us what you think about it in the comments below. We would love to share your experience with our other neighbors so they can make the best decision for themselves. Now, a roof rack can be an excellent way to carry some of that extra cargo with you on your next adventure. There are other ways to do it, of course. You could always use the hitch along with hitch carriers and hitch baskets.
However, that does leave a big footprint behind the vehicle, can make it difficult to park. And not only that, it does, you know, being that low to the ground, seem to be a little more accessible to things like thieves and other kinds of damage. A roof rack is a great way to kind of get those extra things up and outta the way. They won't be dragging behind your vehicle or anything like that. Up here on the roof is an excellent place to carry it as well because there's always some things that you're gonna have with you on those longer trips.
Maybe they're either too big to fit in the car with you and the other passengers, or it might be something you just don't want in there. Like maybe you're going camping and you keep your tent up there, among some other things that may or may not be smelling all that great on the trip home. So a roof rack can hold things like roof boxes, roof cargo baskets, kayak carriers, ski and snowboard carriers, awnings, all sorts of things that could go up on your roof. Now, the Thule WingBar Edge is a flush roof rack, and what that means is that the crossbars don't actually overhang the towers. They all come to and end right here.
And from a stylistic standpoint, I do agree that these kind of look better. They look a little more factory. They look a little more streamlined than the overhanging bars. However, what you're going to end up sacrificing is usable bar space. Generally speaking, because you don't have as much accessible bar space on a flush rack like this, you can usually only put one accessory up here, usually a roof box or something like that.
And you're also gonna be forced to mount it toward the middle, as opposed to an overhang, which generally gives you a little bit extra to work with and you can often put accessories side by side. But with all that being said, this isn't excellent system. It is a an aero bar, which means the bar is an elliptical shape. It's wider in the front, narrow in the back, with the blade shape. That's gonna help reduce a lot of that road noise that you end up getting out of round bars and square bars. It's also going to have an available track to it that's gonna allow you to use your T-slide accessories as well, such as an awning or some of those kayak and snowboard carriers that are out there on the market. You can, of course, also use the clamp-mounted systems. And on this vehicle, we are gonna take a few measurements eventually, but you've got plenty of space under the bar here to get just about any clamp-mounted accessory up there as well. Now, it does have a 165 pound weight rating. However, you always want to double-check in your owner's manual, double-check your vehicle and see what the weight capacity for your roof is. Whatever number is lower, that's how much you can carry up on your roof. But with all that being said, let's get up there, take a few measurements, and see how this is fitting on our CX-50. So, taking a look at what we have up here. Now, I did mention that you've got kind of less space than you would up here for as far as usable bar space compared to an overhang, but if you want to check your accessories, you just wanna make sure that having about 32 3/4 inches of bar space is gonna be enough for them. The rails on the CX-50 do taper. They're closer together in the back than they are up in the front. But if you're really only doing the one, the back bar is gonna be more important. But if you wanted to know, you've got almost 34 inches of bar space up here on your front bar. The other important thing to look at is going to be our spread. So if I'm going from the seam on our weather strip to
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