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This rugged roof rack lets you mount a cargo carrier or other accessories on your Jeep Wrangler hardtop. Channels in crossbars work as tie-down points for securing equipment or gear. Durable, welded steel construction. Mounts to hardtop rain gutters.
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AJ: What's up, everybody It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be checking out these ARIES roof bars on our Jeep hardtop. These are made specifically for the Jeep hardtops. They clamp into your gutter, that way you don't have to permanently mount it. You can just set these in there, throw the latches, and it's good. Let's check it out.Taking a close look at these bars, you can see how unique they are.
They don't look out of place on the top of this Jeep. It looks like something that would have come standard with the Jeep because they don't look like other bars. It's not an arrow bar, it's not a square bar, and it's not just a rounded bar. It's actually separated in the middle, giving you room to run all your straps through and tie down to a bunch of different points so whatever you're carrying up here, you're going to keep it up here.You also notice how low-profile it is. It's very close to the roof and that way it's not all the way up here and it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.
It's low-profile. It stays towards the hardtop. You kind of have to look to see it, so that's kind of neat. The other thing I would be worried about though is clamps that go underneath, like whatever you're going to put on here, let's say you're going to put a roof basket, sometimes those clamps are kind of thick. You want to make sure you have plenty of room in here to get those clamps to go around there.
Let's actually get that measurement right now while we're talking about it. Looks like you got an inch of space from the hardtop here to the bottom of the rail.Not only do they look good and like they belong here, they're made out of a black powder coat steel with a weight capacity of 150 pounds, so they're durable and they're going to last you. Another advantage it has over other roof racks is that you just throw this latch and then you can move the bars. You can move it back and forth, adjust it on your roof. And when you get it where you want it, just turn it here on the top.
That pulls this part here, the clamp at the bottom up, and then throw the latch and that's back in place, that easy.The reason that's so good is because you might not want these on there all the time. You might not want that basket on the roof all the time. You might want to save it for when you actually need it on those special trips where you need that extra room. You can throw these on there real quickly, tighten them down and you're good to go. Or maybe you have a couple different Jeeps in the family and you don't want to buy more than one roof rack, just want to move it to the one you're going to take that weekend. You can easily do that. I like the low-profile design. It looks like it was made for this Jeep. It doesn't look like it was an add-on accessory. It looks like it was supposed to be there the whole time. Well, I think that does it. I hope this helped.
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 Customer Reviews)
This rugged roof rack lets you mount a cargo carrier or other accessories on your Jeep Wrangler hardtop. Channels in crossbars work as tie-down points for securing equipment or gear. Durable, welded steel construction. Mounts to hardtop rain gutters.Received the product within 10 days, probably because I live in Canada, but overall a fast transit from my experience. Opening the box, everything is well packed, no scratches on the paint on any parts, just watch for oil/grease that is present on the metal to keep all the parts free of rust. One thing I was disappointed was the fact that, when I opened the installation manual, it states that you are not suppose to load items above 18 inches from the rack itself, so, may be risky for bicycles. I will still use it for carrying 4 bikes (2 adults and 2 kids), because overall the weight is far from the 150lbs limit that this rack can handle. Installing was very easy, and I was surprised to notice that some parts were pre-greased to prevent rust during the use of the product. I still used rust-preventing spray-on products just because the rack isn't stainless or aluminium, just to extend the life expectancy. My son was sure glad to be on top of my roof, helping me tightening the various nuts and bolts ! In terms of robustness, when everything is well tight (don't tighten too much, the roof is still glass fiber), it's surprisingly sturdy. I have done testing with one bicycle rack, with a bicycle on it, at high speed, braking, turning, etc. and apart from the fact that the plastic covered nuts that attached the bike rack to the rack itself knocking on the roof (which I will fix with some double-sided tape and rubber from a busted bike wheel air chamber), everything was fine. No movement whatsoever of the rack itself on the roof.
Two things I wasn't entirely satisfied : wind noise and paint scratch. So the noise is dependent of the speed of the wind and also the direction : you can have annoying sound as low as 60 km/h, and not a sound at 105 km/h, can't tell why. For the paint scratch, it's hard to notice, but inside the grooves where the rack "legs" sit, even with the tape provided, it will scratch the paint. I will remediate to that with some of that double sided tape and rubber. Apart from that, very good product for the price. I recommend !
Olivier B - 08/03/2021
biggest issue is I have to remove the rack to go thru an automated car wash. If I had known that not sure I would have bought it. Also, seems to hum when I have it on the jeep. looks good on the jeep and easy to install and remove
Katrina B - 07/06/2022
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