Rhino-Rack Vortex Aero Cross Bar

Excelente 😍

Very happy with the quality of the rack

I bought these to mount a carrier on the bed of my F-150. They are easy to mount and have a quick removal function which lets you keep the brackets in place and take the bars off when you don’t need the carrier. This is a nice feature when you want to go back and forth with use of the carrier.

DECEPTIVE! Received ONE cartop carrier bar today. What is one supposed to do with ONE cartop carrier bar? Over the years never ordered any cartop carrier system and received ONE cartop carrier bar. Not from Thule, nor from Yakima. If you are going to sell your bars as singles, thinking you should make this VERY clear to potential buyers. The lost time involved by receiving a single bar, and therefore having to wait additional days to receive the second bar, is unwelcome, as is the rather deceptive price point one is presented with when considering which manufacturer to order from. :(

Great quality bars. One thing to note is that if you order a certain bar length, the channel on the bottom only runs about 8 inches towards the middle on each side and then stops, meaning, if you are ordering a set of bars that are quite a bit wider than your mounting width, that you may run out of room in the bottom channel for mounting.As an example, I mounted these to my Nissan Frontier OEM roof rack, which is fairly narrow. I used the 59” bars because I already have the same length ones on my truck shell and wanted them to match. Because the stock roof rack is only 36” wide or so there wasn’t quite enough room to install the SX clamp/channel style legs, so I ended up lengthening the channel a little with a dremel. Not a big deal, but something to be aware of.

Bought these cross bars to pair with the Rhino Rack Vortex SX Legs on our 2013 Toyota Highlander Hybrid (with factory rails) and they are both great products! I like that the Rhino Rack legs and cross bars provide slightly more height above the roof of the Highlander (3.75 inches from top of roof to top of cross bars). We also purchased the Toyota factory cross bars but they are low profile (approximately 1.5 inches from top of roof to top of cross bars). We needed the extra height so that the factory clamps on our Thule Atlantis 1600 cargo box would not rub/scratch the top of the vehicle. This may not be an issue for other vehicles, but have noticed that factory rails on many new cars are very low profile and wanted to mention this benefit in case it helps someone else save the trouble of trying similar factory cross bars.Also like that the Rhino Rack system has a higher weight rating than the Toyota factory cross bars!

$118 for one bar! 😭🤣 Buy once cry once, I guess...

I'm not one to write reviews but I figured I'd help others who may have trouble in the future. Ordered these bars since they were cheapest price I could find anywhere. Shipping was a matter of days great! Once bars arrived neither had VGS strips like the description mentioned. Just by chance I took both end caps off and was looking through the bars I could see something lodged in there. Tapped it on the carpet and sure enough the VGS strips fell out, as you can see in picture where they were stuck. If you purchase these bars and you don't see the strips, they're most likely stuck in the hole.