This is a little video showing the newly mounted roof rack. I had the cross bars for this rack for a number of years, and have used them in many variations of bike racks. My wife uses the Xterra right now for her main transportation, so the bike rack off of the trailer hitch was getting in her way for groceries and stuff.

The front crosspiece bolts right into the existing mounts for the factory basket on the roof. It required going to a hardware store for the exact match on a new bolt that would be long enough to go through the crossbars. The bolt is fine thread and metric, which makes it difficult to match, but the guy at the hardware store was able to do it in just a few minutes.

The rear cross piece required drilling through the factory rails, which I would have preferred not to do, just because it makes it pretty permanent. However, this is a budget rack, and buying the clamps from Yakima would cost nearly $100 apiece, so the $1.75 I spent in hardware was a great alternative.

Here is the video. Sorry I did not shoot it in landscape mode, I was still trying to get used to me new iPhone.



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