Set up: Yakima EXO Swing Away Ski and Snowboard Carrier w/ Cargo Carrier on a 2015 Toyota 4Runner

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Hey, everybody. Zac here, at etrailer.com. Today we're taking a look at the Yakima EXO system on our 2015 Toyota 4Runner. I have the configuration of the Ski and Snowboard Carrier paired up with the Cargo Carrier. This is gonna be a really cool system that's not only gonna give us the capacity to carry what we have here today, but if you really wanna go all out, you can get all the accessories that go with this. So, you can get a box, you can get a bike rack, just whatever you're looking for for the season.

So you can see here, this is gonna provide a really good space to store all of our gear on our 4Runner. You know, getting up on the roof, especially during the snow season, you know, maybe you don't wanna get up there. Maybe you've got a box. There's a lot of different reasons why your roof is maybe not something you're looking to get stuff on top. We've got the back end full, so we can get a storage box and a cooler back here, just carry a lot of different gear on it.

So, taking a look at the snowboard carrier, this is gonna be very similar to what you'd see on a rooftop setup. We're gonna be able to carry up to four snowboards, and up to five pairs of skis. Now, a lot of that plays into what type of skis and snowboards you're using. You can see, I only have one pair of skis on today. Something that I found that I'm not a big fan of, is just the way it clamps down on certain types of bindings.

Now, if you've got bindings like this, you're gonna be limited, because of how much room they take up. But if you're gonna have more modern bindings, something that's gonna be a little bit different, it's not gonna have that clamping down issue right there. So, on a rooftop with ski and snowboard gear, you can kinda play around with that a little bit, depending on where your roof rack's lined up. So, maybe you're not clamping down on those bindings. Now, a lot of bindings don't have that setting right there where we we're clamping down, so it's just going down on the ski here, which limits us with our setup today.

So, we wouldn't be able to get up to five pairs of skis on there, because of that. So, a lot of the times what you're gonna do, is stack your skis up. So, you'd stack them up like this on your roof, but you can definitely see there we're not gonna be able to do that. So, if I could adjust those and make them wider, it wouldn't be an issue. Another thing to keep in mind is, you know, how wide your skis are. If you've got some really wide powder skis, you're probably not gonna be able to get five pairs of skis on there. We'll get a measurement here in a second for you. But I just wanted to show you, if you have bindings like this, you are definitely gonna have some issues with getting this clamped down and getting the maximum capacity out of your carrier. When we are clamping this down, though, if you wanna take a closer look here, it gives us really good bite there. So, I'll get this one back in place too. So, it's definitely gonna do a good job of holding those in place. You can see here, I really have to get after that one. That's not something I really want to, but I think that's just gonna be a problem we have with our bindings today. But you can see here, we're getting a really good bite on that, able to get our stuff on there good. Now, the nice thing about this, with this whole EXO system, is that I can swing it away. So, after we're done riding for the day, I can come back here, and there's a knob that's gonna allow me to loosen this up, that we'll just have to twist there. I like that it's so large that I can get a good hand on it to get that loosened up. We'll pull that out. And then there's a release right there, and we can start getting this swung out from our back end, and then it's gonna latch in place right there. So, that gives us full hatch access. So if we need to get any more gear out of the back end, sit down to put our boots on, whatever we're looking to do. I really like that I can get this opened up all the way with all of our gear on the back. Now, another thing that we can do with this, we can swing this around. Now, maybe you don't have a reason to do that with the skis on here, but there's also a table top that you can put on here. So, maybe you wanna be out in the parking lot and have a bite to eat, and you just put a table on top of here. That's sold separately. But