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SmarT-Slot kit lets you mount a Yakima HighSpeed or HighRoad roof bike rack to your crossbars with T-slots. Replaces the standard clamp-on mounting hardware. Works with most crossbars with top channels.
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If you own the Yakima HighSpeed or the Yakima HighRoad, there is a T-slot conversion kit. And that's gonna allow you to utilize a little bit more bar space up on your roof. The Yakima HighSpeed and the HighRoad come with this strap which is a really low-profile design. But if you do wanna utilize the T-slots on whatever kind of bars that you have, whether it's Thule, Yakima, whatever, we tested it on all of them. And as long as they just have a T-slot at top, you're gonna be able to use that. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take all of it down, put it up on the table and show how we did the conversion process.
If you decide not to use the straps on the HighSpeed meaning the little section right here, where we open this up, and fold this out, and this wraps directly around your crossbar. Pretty quick and easy. But there is a second option with this kit. So to start, we're gonna have to convert it over. We're gonna take this out, the strap, and then we're gonna take a screwdriver, and notice this little wheel which is used to tighten that.
We're gonna pop this up, spread these bands out, and then we go ahead and set this to the side, just in case we wanna convert it back. We can then remove that strap, just by pulling it through, and setting that to the side. We're gonna do the same thing for our other two straps over here. Here are the T-slots. So what you wanna do, is go on your crossbar and we're gonna assemble these first.
We'll put these on the crossbars. So we're gonna have three of them, one, two, and three. So you can go ahead and put that on your crossbar, and then we'll line 'em up. Then we have these nuts, which will tighten down on the top with the included tool. There is an extra little clamp that we're gonna put on here.
It's just like the other ones. It's just gonna snap in just like that. I personally checked a lot of different brand bars that you may have on your roof. And they work with pretty much all of them besides the RHINO-RACK C-Channel HD bars. So be mindful of that. But what we wanna do is slide these down. So I always have the front, facing the front, and they are about six and a half inches apart. So we can try to kind of line that up. These are Thule bars we're using right now. And as you can see, everything works pretty good. So kind of just get an idea of where that's at and then we can grab our rack. The goal here is to get those studs through these little holes here, and then there's gonna be one in the back as well. So let's go ahead, put this up. We do wanna make sure that the T-slots are gonna be facing the side. So they catch that lip, 'cause if they don't, it's not really gonna do a whole lot. From underneath you can see the two slots on the front that we want to put it in. Kinda lay it down, and adjust it. I do wanna make sure that seat's in that hole so it's not gonna rotate. Perfect! The back one's a little bit easier because this adjusts like this. So that's pretty easy to get it down into place. Now we'll take our nut. I like to get 'em started, on all of them make sure they all are threading and they're nice and easy. And also with the back, we do get a tool with the kit. It's like one of those windy things on those toys you used to play with. Pretty big, but it's still small enough where you can fit it in your glove box if you want. We're gonna tighten this down. I kind of like to go from nut to nut, get 'em pretty much tightened down, and then come back through and torque it down to the specs in our instructions. We will get different clamps that we are just gonna fit right into the slot. Hold it down, and slide that over. Same with that one and our back one as well. Pretty simple thing just to be able to use those extra couple of inches above those towers. So you can fit more bikes and bring more people, to wherever you want to go. And that's pretty much it for our look at the T-slot kit for your Yakima HighSpeed or your HighRoad..
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (10 Customer Reviews)
SmarT-Slot kit lets you mount a Yakima HighSpeed or HighRoad roof bike rack to your crossbars with T-slots. Replaces the standard clamp-on mounting hardware. Works with most crossbars with top channels.I tried this with the Yakima HighSpeed on a 2023 Model Y and there was a lot of overhang for my comfort, but it was secured tightly. Taking it on and off also felt like a pain because of the alignment with the screws and fearing the rack will slip and hit the roof glass. I decided to go back to the original straps.
Perfect part for securing the rack. George was great! Thank you!
Build a tonneau cover & 4x bike rack for a 2020 Raptor. The Yakima kit fit perfect on a RetraxPro XR with 4 Yakima HighRoad bike racks. Also used the T-slot kit for cleaner mounting. Works perfectly and seamlessly. Very pleased.
Multiple orders over the years. Always fast and efficient and they often have things that other sites state "Out of Stock".
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