Customer Reviews

Thule 45058 CrossRoad Complete Roof Rack System with Load Bars (58-Inch Bars)

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This product is straight forward easy to install as advertised. My roof rails are foolishly body colored rather than something more wear forgiving. The soft rubber mounts allow for tight installation and full removal with no marks left or paint abrasion.

The weight gives you confidence that it'll take the load. This sucker is solid.

If I had one gripe it would be that the gear for tightening/loosening requires too many turns.

If I needed a second set, I would not hesitate to buy another set.

Thule products are of very good quality and this is no exception. It works as advertised. The only slight issue I had is that the straps that wrap around the existing rack are seemingly not long enough to wrap around thicker roof rack bars (like my Pathfinder). I was able to get it to work however by sliding the cross bar out of the attaching feet, extending the straps as far as they would possibly go, installing the feet and then sliding the cross bar back through. Also, without any roof carrier attached, the bars do cause some wind noise at higher speeds.

I got this for my 2009 Mitsubishi Outlander. It installed in less than 10 minutes. Very secure on vehicle. I was pulling with all my strength, the vehicle was rocking back and forth, and these bars did not move at all. Great product, includes locks for all 4 feet.

This is typical solid Thule system. The pictures of this product differ from the actual product-- notice that the picture shows the towers inserting into a slot on the bottom of the cross bar. What you actually get is different-- it is actually identical to the Thule 450 system where the cross bar inserts through a square hollow shaft in the tower. so you are actually getting the equivalent of the 450 towers, cross bars and locks, at somewhat of a discount from those parts priced separately.

System seems nice for putting on and taking off relatively easily, as for the most part I do not want to keep cross bars on car very much (just extended vacations and weekends).

Works well, but noisy when cargo box is not attached. Too noisy to leave on vehicle when not using.

We are about to take the family on our summer vacation and our family of four, including two little kids, can no longer fit all of our luggage into tha small cargo hold of our Subaru Forester. We opted to buy these rails along with a waterproof luggage bag to mount to the roof. There is not much to say about these rails other than that, as other reviewers have pointed out, they are exactly what they say they are: sturday, durable rails that adapt easily to most vehicle's existing cross bars. i installed them in under 20 minutes, which would easily have been 10 if I hadn't stopped to make a few spacing adjustments along the way. I am not sure if I will ever understand why these rails (not just these in particular, but all of them in general) cost so much, even at Amazon's competitive price, but I will say that they are well engineered and built, which makes absorbing the cost much easier. We are very happy with the purchase and foresee staying that way. Thanks, Thule and Amazon.

The only issue that I had was understanding the instructions for inserting the locks. But that's a onetime issue and has nothing to do with the actual product. Other than that, installing racks was a breeze. They are solid. I installed on 2011 Subaru Forester.

I have no issue with the product itself as it seems to be great. The issue and WARNING that I have is with Thule itself, and their online fit guide. I used the fit guide to determine which Thule products were required, and then I purchased them here on Amazon. Only after receiving and installing the 45050 did I then learn that it won't work with the Thule Hullavator 897XT.

Specifically, I have a Toyota 2010 Highlander with factory rails (but not crossbars). I needed to install a Thule Hullavator 897XT. The Thule online fit guide has you indicate what make, model and year vehicle you own. And for the Highlander, it even narrows the year selection choices down to 2008-2010 for a specific fit, and that then indicates which base rack is needed to mount the Hullavator 897XT.

According to the Thule online fit guide, I needed to install this 45050 base rack with feet to fit the Hullavator to my Highlander. So I ordered both the 45050 and the Hullavator 897XT here on Amazon. I received the 45050 roof rack first and installed it. The next day I received the Hullavator and was reading over the installation instructions for that and discovered this note tucked away on the instructions indicating that the Thule crossbars must extend "equally between 4" and 8" beyond foot" (meaning beyond the foot of the Thule base rack's foot) and that in "rare instances, longer load bars then those recommended in the Thule fit guide may be required." Apparently anyone owning a Toyota Highlander or anyone else that needs a 50" crossbar on a vehicle with similar roof rack separation distance and wanting to install a Hullavator would be one of those "rare instances." There is no notice inside the fit guide that indicates that the fit guide might not be correct. And of course the 45050 box itself even lists my Highlander as a model to use the 45050, with no note about the need for longer crossbars to use some Thule products. And the Thule product image used here even shows the rack as the crossbar would need to be -- extending beyond the foot.

I filed an online customer service request with Thule who is located in Sweden. They have no U.S. customer service contact information. I have received no reply. So apparently I'm stuck with 50" crossbars that will not work (or the other option is to fully remove the rack that I installed, and ship the entire thing back to Amazon for a refund...the problem being that the rack feet are just fine, installed and I only have incorrect crossbars, and I haven't seen a rack base system that comes with the right size bars -- see below about that).

And the Thule fit guide makes no provision for then trying to determine WHICH crossbars would be the right ones (of course not, because it indicates that what I have are the right ones!). So I had to "guess" my way to that and figured it out by looking at all of the Thule products here and found crossbars that would probably work -- the Thule LB58 crossbars are 58" long and should provide the extra length that is required.

So I caution you when using the Thule fit guide. Amazon has a great price on the Thule products but Amazon customers are completely at the mercy of the Thule fit guide in determining which products to select, and that guide is apparently not always correct.

Overall I am happy with the product but i was missing one part when it arrived (one of the pains of ordering on line). The one rack end piece used to tighten the straps was missing. I was still able to use it (had to base on timing of a trip) but frustrating as it does not look complete.

Purchased my set for a 2010 Toyota Highlander and I was concerned if they were going to fit right. It fit absolutely perfectly with minimal overhang.

It was very simple to install just a strap that inserted into the fitting and you just had to turn an allen wrench that was part of the rack to tighten. Thats it! literally 10 minutes. The only difficult part was when you were putting in the locks you had to really "muscle" them in and try to twist them so they fit. But overall not very difficult at all. I would recommend getting the Fairing for it, because driving over 40 mph creates a whistling and humming sound due to the bar. Others have had the same problem. The fairing usually stops this problem.