etrailer | How to Install the Yakima OffGrid Roof Cargo Basket on a 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport

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Today, we're just using a Rhino-Rack Vortex Bar on here, but as you can see with our versatile clamping system, we are gonna fit most of our bars that we're gonna get up on here. Now with 165-pound weight capacity, we're gonna get most of our utility items that we need up on here, and anything else we might need. Keep in mind though, most of your roof bars also have a pretty similar weight capacity. And with his weight carrier being around 40 pounds, you already are kind of working off a lot of that weight capacity that you might actually be able to reach to, just because of how our roof system works. And be sure to consult your vehicle's owner's manual.

Make sure we're not exceeding the weight limit on our roof innately with all of our systems. However, as you can see, Yakima looking very, very stylish on the side as well. I like all the contact points that we're getting throughout the side here while not being a traditional just kind of like standard post system on there. It is very unique as you can see. And a couple of great things about it too, at the front here, we do have a fairing that's included.

Obviously, this can be cutting down a lot of that wind drag, a lot of that wind noise as we go down the road. And the great thing about it too, we can easily take it off. These straps just pop right off like you can see. You can complete that the whole way off. That's gonna make it really easy to get some of those long items up on there.

When we jump up on top, we'll go ahead and talk about that back end as well. So why don't we go ahead, jump on up, and start looking at some dimensions just to show you guys some of the quick internal dimensions here. As you can see, going from the top of our fairing just to get our usable space here to the end puts us right about 39 inches to the back end here, about 38 inches across. And we should be getting about five inches of depth here. Yep, right at five inches to the top of our little adapter bars here. Now talking about these adapter bars, these are gonna be great for a load of things. A, innately, we can go ahead and maybe put a bike carrier up on here. So that'd be a great way of really kind of extending the use of our rack system, not only gonna be used just for our cargo basket. So I really like how much versatility this rack actually gives. That's not something you really see a lot on those other cargo baskets. Usually you're pretty limited in just, hey, this is actually gonna get your luggage around, nothing too much crazy there. Again, we already talked about all these tie down points on the side. A, they look stylish, very easy to use. Take a look on the inside here. You can see we do have just a simple little grid system, not gonna have any kind of weather buildup there at all. Rain gonna be washing out of it really easy. Again, if it does get muddy, it'll just take a quick little rinse to get off. And if you notice on here these little red adapters, there is actually an extension available for this guy. However, I think we could maybe get away with it. I believe it's about 18 inches long, so we'd be cutting it very close, especially with this hatch being in the way. Unfortunately for this guy, I don't think we'd be able to get away with that extension actually. However, if we have a couple other vehicles, it can make it very versatile. We can actually take this guy off, add that extension onto something else in the family. Take a look at how this actually mounts. It's very, very simple. I think it's one of the best cargo baskets out there for its installation. You see these foot pads we have. They are adjustable on this entire length. So depending what our crossbars are, it's also gonna make it very adaptable to a lot of different roof racks that we might have. However, on the Outlander, we do have the fixed rail system, so as you can see, we've got it set up like so, taking a look at the bottom, might be kind of hard for me at this angle, but kind of moving this, we do