Install: Custom DK Fit Kit for 4 Rhino-Rack 2500 Series Roof Rack Legs on a 2022 Ford Maverick
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Hi everyone, Aiden here at etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install this Rhino Rack Roof Rack system on our 2022 Ford Maverick. Now a roof rack is good for a number of things, especially here on the Maverick. We do have a shorter bed, so anything longer like lumber or a kayak, it's hard to put in the bed. Putting it up on top of the vehicle might be a better option especially with kayak carriers being so easy to mount on these roof racks. I see that being a really big benefit here and not having to worry about the small bed space.
Or you can get a bike rack up here if you don't wanna put one in the hitch or in the bed and you've got the options for roof boxes and baskets. If you don't have a tunnel cover for your bed and you want to keep some stuff safe and secure and you don't have the room inside, the roof is the next best place to go because you can have a box locked up or just get that stuff and a basket strapped down on top. Whatever you do decide to carry, just make sure you stay within the weight capacity of 165 pounds. As far as roof racks go, that's a pretty standard amount and it's a pretty good amount. So anything less than that, I'd maybe be a little wary of just because it does limit you quite a bit.
But 165 pounds should be enough to get you going. So let's talk about some of the pieces of this roof rack kit because that is a full kit. The cross bars up top are gonna be the main piece. These are gonna be 54 inches long and on the Maverick they don't leave a ton of overhang on the sides. Now if you wanted to get longer bars you could get those separately.
If you wanted to use this with something like a Lotus Assist kayak carrier that will help you load up a kayak, you do need overhang on your crossbars to make those work. So it's just something to keep in mind. If you don't plan on using something like that then this should be just fine. I think it gives a really nice complete look to the Maverick and I like the fact that it doesn't have too much overhang, makes it look like it fits really well in the truck. Now on the end, you've got end caps that can be removed using the tool included in your kit and that will expose the inside T track.
So you can peel up this rubber stripping and use the T track to attach different accessories. Just keep in mind that you will have to cut and trim that weather strip to length. That's one thing about Rhino Rack's roof racks that I don't love, because with other systems like Yakima you can just slide your accessories in and that rubber strip will conform around it, no cutting needed. The other method, if you don't want to worry about any sort of modifications like that is to just clamp your accessories around the bars and that's probably the most common one. And for me, that's probably the way I would go too. These crossbars are an elliptical shape and they're gonna work really well with pretty much any clamp out there. It's a pretty standard size and you've got more than enough room underneath the bars to attach those clamps without interfering with the roof. As far as how much room you have at its lowest or closest point, you've got two and three quarters an inch from the roof to the bottom of the crossbar. Again, more than enough room for any sort of clamp that you might be attaching. And then from the roof to the tallest point of the roof rack is gonna be four inches, so it doesn't add too much height to the vehicle either. Your mounting locations for the crossbars are fixed, and that distance between your crossbars is gonna end up being 28 inches. That's gonna work really well for pretty much any accessory. Most accessories will have some adjustability with their clamps so they can meet different crossbar spreads, but 28 is a really good kind of middle of the road number that should work well with a lot of accessories. One thing I will point out with the Maverick specifically is going to be the antenna placement. It's kind of an in inconvenient spot and comes really close to the roof rack here because roof space is pretty limited. Now depending on the accessory you plan on putting up here this may or may not be a concern. Any sort of kayak carrier that holds the kayak more vertically, or maybe a bike rack where you can kind of offset them, probably not gonna be an issue because you're not gonna be coming into close contact with this. But any sort of basket or box, I would be wary of this because this is gonna limit our space quite a bit. Now there's a couple different solutions you can come to here. You can just remove it by unt
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Hi everyone, Aiden here at etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install this Rhino Rack Roof Rack system on our 2022 Ford Maverick. Now a roof rack is good for a number of things, especially here on the Maverick. We do have a shorter bed, so anything longer like lumber or a kayak, it's hard to put in the bed. Putting it up on top of the vehicle might be a better option especially with kayak carriers being so easy to mount on these roof racks. I see that being a really big benefit here and not having to worry about the small bed space.
Or you can get a bike rack up here if you don't wanna put one in the hitch or in the bed and you've got the options for roof boxes and baskets. If you don't have a tunnel cover for your bed and you want to keep some stuff safe and secure and you don't have the room inside, the roof is the next best place to go because you can have a box locked up or just get that stuff and a basket strapped down on top. Whatever you do decide to carry, just make sure you stay within the weight capacity of 165 pounds. As far as roof racks go, that's a pretty standard amount and it's a pretty good amount. So anything less than that, I'd maybe be a little wary of just because it does limit you quite a bit.
But 165 pounds should be enough to get you going. So let's talk about some of the pieces of this roof rack kit because that is a full kit. The cross bars up top are gonna be the main piece. These are gonna be 54 inches long and on the Maverick they don't leave a ton of overhang on the sides. Now if you wanted to get longer bars you could get those separately.
If you wanted to use this with something like a Lotus Assist kayak carrier that will help you load up a kayak, you do need overhang on your crossbars to make those work. So it's just something to keep in mind. If you don't plan on using something like that then this should be just fine. I think it gives a really nice complete look to the Maverick and I like the fact that it doesn't have too much overhang, makes it look like it fits really well in the truck. Now on the end, you've got end caps that can be removed using the tool included in your kit and that will expose the inside T track.
So you can peel up this rubber stripping and use the T track to attach different accessories. Just keep in mind that you will have to cut and trim that weather strip to length. That's one thing about Rhino Rack's roof racks that I don't love, because with other systems like Yakima you can just slide your accessories in and that rubber strip will conform around it, no cutting needed. The other method, if you don't want to worry about any sort of modifications like that is to just clamp your accessories around the bars and that's probably the most common one. And for me, that's probably the way I would go too. These crossbars are an elliptical shape and they're gonna work really well with pretty much any clamp out there. It's a pretty standard size and you've got more than enough room underneath the bars to attach those clamps without interfering with the roof. As far as how much room you have at its lowest or closest point, you've got two and three quarters an inch from the roof to the bottom of the crossbar. Again, more than enough room for any sort of clamp that you might be attaching. And then from the roof to the tallest point of the roof rack is gonna be four inches, so it doesn't add too much height to the vehicle either. Your mounting locations for the crossbars are fixed, and that distance between your crossbars is gonna end up being 28 inches. That's gonna work really well for pretty much any accessory. Most accessories will have some adjustability with their clamps so they can meet different crossbar spreads, but 28 is a really good kind of middle of the road number that should work well with a lot of accessories. One thing I will point out with the Maverick specifically is going to be the antenna placement. It's kind of an in inconvenient spot and comes really close to the roof rack here because roof space is pretty limited. Now depending on the accessory you plan on putting up here this may or may not be a concern. Any sort of kayak carrier that holds the kayak more vertically, or maybe a bike rack where you can kind of offset them, probably not gonna be an issue because you're not gonna be coming into close contact with this. But any sort of basket or box, I would be wary of this because this is gonna limit our space quite a bit. Now there's a couple different solutions you can come to here. You can just remove it by unt
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