Good call buddy. Right on with rain gutters nothing on back jk model. Cool that you installed correctly! Have fun on the slopes! Me and the wife love west coast skiing cause here on the east we freeze our hinnies off lol. Have fun and always safe buddy
Nice work !Just wanted to share a few customizations I made to my Mopar roof rack, including solving the whistling issue which seems to have hit or miss solutions in other threads.
1) Red decals: I cut some red Jeep decals to fill in the Jeep logos to add a little bit of color and match the accents on Jeep
2) Paint protection: I noticed on my JK the roof rack did leave a little bit of marks on the hard top, so to avoid anything I cut some small rectangles of clear bra paint protection film from 3M in order to protect the paint where it grips, this also turns out to make it super easy and fast to put the roof racks back on and off exactly in the correct spot since the film marks the spot basically
3) Security: since these don't lock unfortunately, I decided to at least swap out the bolt inside with a torx security screw bolt, it makes it at least a slightly greater deterrent to get these off, most thieves are unlikely to carry this special torx head around... anyone looking to do the same you'll need M6 screws with about 25 to 30mm in length, I used this kit off Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CCMVJQW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
4) No more whistling! The whistle is pretty bad on these once you hit 65 mph. In another thread some had mentioned putting tape along the bottom center, some on the sides... people were having mixed success. The key is to put tape on BOTH the bottom middle AND the side parts, shown in areas 1, 2, and 3 in this image below I marked up ... I tried it with just the middle and just the sides and it still whistles, you need to do all parts numbered here to stop the whistle completely
Once I figured out what worked, I wanted to come up with a solution that looked nice. Ended up cutting some black matte vinyl decals and stuck them on the bottom. They're basically invisible and this has stopped the whistling noise completely. You can't tell these are on here at all they blend in with the rack. The key is to cover all the groves and exposed areas on the bottom
And why doesn’t the manufacturer fix this? Love the innovative thinking but as soon as this was identified a solution should have been developed.
Hopefully eventually they will, but honestly most roof racks have some whistle to them (at least every single one I've tried)...
No problem! Those red decals I cut/made myself on a decal machine I have
Hey, did you ever try the yakima filler to quiet your Mopar roof rack? Wondering whether to order those or just use tape/vinyl.
Would you be willing to share the illustrator file for the vinil pieces? I own a Cricut too and can’t stand the whistling anymore...Just wanted to share a few customizations I made to my Mopar roof rack, including solving the whistling issue which seems to have hit or miss solutions in other threads.
1) Red decals: I cut some red Jeep decals to fill in the Jeep logos to add a little bit of color and match the accents on Jeep
2) Paint protection: I noticed on my JK the roof rack did leave a little bit of marks on the hard top, so to avoid anything I cut some small rectangles of clear bra paint protection film from 3M in order to protect the paint where it grips, this also turns out to make it super easy and fast to put the roof racks back on and off exactly in the correct spot since the film marks the spot basically
3) Security: since these don't lock unfortunately, I decided to at least swap out the bolt inside with a torx security screw bolt, it makes it at least a slightly greater deterrent to get these off, most thieves are unlikely to carry this special torx head around... anyone looking to do the same you'll need M6 screws with about 25 to 30mm in length, I used this kit off Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CCMVJQW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
4) No more whistling! The whistle is pretty bad on these once you hit 65 mph. In another thread some had mentioned putting tape along the bottom center, some on the sides... people were having mixed success. The key is to put tape on BOTH the bottom middle AND the side parts, shown in areas 1, 2, and 3 in this image below I marked up ... I tried it with just the middle and just the sides and it still whistles, you need to do all parts numbered here to stop the whistle completely
Once I figured out what worked, I wanted to come up with a solution that looked nice. Ended up cutting some black matte vinyl decals and stuck them on the bottom. They're basically invisible and this has stopped the whistling noise completely. You can't tell these are on here at all they blend in with the rack. The key is to cover all the groves and exposed areas on the bottom
Update: Finally got to give these some good use on a long ski trip, no whistling still and no issues
Ya shoot me a PM, I can probably just share the Cricut file with you directly, even easier!
The end caps just have little pressure tabs that you press in and they pop right off, very easy
I did and it didn't work. Still whistles, so it's apparently not the openings on the ends doing it. I haven't taped/covered the whole bottom, just the openings. I plan to take the bars off at some point and tape the whole bottom of the bar to see if that helps but haven't gotten around to it yet.
I've tried all the combinations and described it at the beginning of this thread, you have to cover the entire bottom and ends to stop the whistling.
Is roof rack theft chop shop a thing? Maybe it has do do with region and where you live. I've never really thought about it until now.
