etrailer | Feature Review Roof Rack Adapters for Thule HideAway Awnings

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Hi, everyone. It's Evangeline here at etrailer. And today we'll be taking a look at the roof rack adaptor for your Thule hideaway awnings here at etrailer. When you do have a Thule awning, you're going to need a different mounting adaptor depending on your mounting system. So here we saw the roof rack mounting system, and I think it really works well, especially with how it gives you two choices for mounting it to your roof rack. Now, if you do have a thinner bar, this may not be the best fit, just cause those walls are a bit too long.

It will still work, but you won't be able to lock it. But I do like how it has everything included that you would need to make sure that you get an awning on your car. Now, this is designed to work with the Thule hideaway awning, but I did notice that this also works with the Thule outcast awning, very similar design, same mounting process. So if you need to use one for the other, that will work. So if you have some crossbars that you want to connect your hideaway awning to, this is the adapter you would use.

So as you can see, we have it attached to our Yakima core bars, but this will also fit around aftermarket crossbars, whether they be arrow or square bars. So we do have some options for clamping down. The T-track option is the easiest, but like what we have here, we don't have T-tracks in our crossbars. So we have clamps that go around. So this will involve 1, 2, 3, 4.

So about eight on each side of four bolts that you have to tighten down. To make things easier, I do recommend picking up a size 10 millimeter ratchet wrench, whether you have a long socket or this type of a wrench that just goes around, this is going to make it much faster to mount these to your crossbars. Depending on your vehicle, since the Thule hideaway is a larger awning, it works best on larger vehicles. I do recommend picking up either the Moki doorstep or a step stool or a ladder that's going to help you out as you tighten down your bolts here on your adapter. Now that we've taken a quick look at how our adapter works here in action, holding up our awning, let's take it back inside so I can show you how I did it.

So I have the adapters right now. And the first step is just to get these square bolts and then fit them into the tracks of your hideaway. So just slide them through and you're going to want eight bolts slid through those tracks. So next you're going to install your plate. So notice how we have two sides to this. What we want is we're going to get the one with the rectangular part portion. That's going to fit over your four bolts. So we're going to put it up just like this. Also make sure you have it facing the correct direction. That way you can pull it out after you have it installed on your crossbars. Once you have those brackets on there, you're going to get four flat washers and then four nuts for each bracket. So flat washer first, and then put the nut on top to secure it only loosely tighten this down because you're still gonna need to move that plate around. So you do get this tool, which you can use to tighten down those nuts, but I use my own socket and a wrench. So this is a 10 millimeter socket, that just makes it faster to tighten those bolts down. So just make sure you get them about halfway through before you go onto the next step. So before setting up our crossbars, firstly you make sure you have enough minimum crossbar spread. So what we have right now with our aftermarket crossbars is that they are set 37 inches apart. So just as an easy way to get set up, I have these already moved 37 inches apart center to center, and that's just a good guesstimate before I put them on the crossbars. So now we're going to get this onto our crossbar. Since this is a bit of a taller vehicle, plus since this is a heavy awning, make sure you have you and your friend carrying each side of the awning. So we got Jack and Bobby right over here and we're just going to lift it onto the crossbars before we get mounted down. So what I did is I put the first two clamps on first, just because you do have to hold it up while you clamp them down. And if you don't do it quickly, it can get tiring for people helping you out as you do tighten down your clamps. But now you're going to put one, two on each bracket. So let's put them in there, get the clamp underneath your crossbar, push the bolts up. And then through the bracket, then you're going to get a flat washer and then a split washer. So put those on top of that bracket. That way