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The Yakima LockNLoad is the roof platform this review takes apart on its maker’s own specifications: an engineered aluminium deck, 84 by 54 inches in the 3-bar size verified here (part 8005048), whose side-to-side slats double as crossbars and whose T-slots run through every slat and the outer frame. Yakima rates it at 165 to
The Thule WingBar Evo 118 is the crossbar half of Thule’s roof system: a pair of 47-inch aluminium aero bars (part 711220) with a BoxBeam core, a WindDiffuser top surface and an upper T-track, carried on Evo feet and a vehicle-specific fit kit that you buy separately. This review judges that one part number on
Carrying cargo on a roof is a weight problem before it is a rack problem: the box, bikes or kayaks, their carriers, and the rack itself all spend the same vehicle roof limit. This guide re-ranks the six systems from our pillar roof rack guide purely for cargo — boxes, bikes, kayaks, cases and boards
Overlanding asks more of a roof rack than any other use: the same platform has to carry a rooftop tent, an awning and recovery boards while the truck moves, then hold the tent and its sleepers still all night at camp. This guide reframes the six systems in our pillar roof rack guide around that
Thule and Rhino-Rack are the two premium names that meet on almost every serious roof shortlist, and they publish their numbers very differently. Thule prints one simple capacity for its Caprock platform and a split rating for its WingBar Evo bars — 220 lb for the bars, 165 lb for the finished system in its