Hey all,
I’m looking for a new roof rack setup as the old one from my Subaru doesn’t fit my Infiniti. I’m looking at Yakima and Thule, I’m open to other brands if they make a quality product. I am partial to Yakima as that’s what I had before and what most of my attachments are, but I’m not married to them by any means.
I’d be looking at Yakima’s new Timberline tower, which looks pretty slick. My car has side rails but no cross bars. Thule would be the AeroBlade Edge, which also looks pretty slick as the tower and bar appear to be integrated. My concern with both of these are the rubber straps securing it to the rails. Living in Calgary, and being my winter car, the straps will see some cold weather.
The Yakima would be cheaper at $420 ($250 for towers and $170 for core bars), as I should be able to reuse the SKS lock cores I already have.
https://www.yakima.com/ca/timberline-towers-4-pack
The Thule AeroBlade is $560, so decent amount more. But at the end of the day, I plan on keeping this vehicle a while so a bit extra initially is no biggie.
https://www.thule.com/en-us/ca/roof-rac ... 02-_-7502a
Anyone here using, or have experience with these? If I go the Yakima rack, I’m also wondering if anyone has experience between their core bars, or the Jetstream bars. The noise generated from my old round bars was kind of annoying. Both of these designs seem to be an improvement, but I can’t find much for comparisons online.
I see the older Yakima RailGrab towers look like they could work, but there's no info if they will on the Yak site since they've moved to a new tower.
Thanks!