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Mopar Two Bar Rack Review

Jimmy_jak

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Bought this for my JLU SportS to hauly fishing poles around Florida. Waiting on the fishing pole locker by Yakima to be released.

Easy install on the gutter rails. It is not supposed to be on the two freedom tops, only on the rear.

So far so good except for one issue. Lots and lots of whistling. I think it's a gap between the mounting clips. I'll post a photo later, the one I have sucks.

I'm going to stick some pool noodle foam in the gaps and see if that solves it.

$300 from my dealership.

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Here is a good solution for the whistling.

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.

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

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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

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Update: Finally got to give these some good use on a long ski trip, no whistling still and no issues

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