How To Remove Roof Racks

Remove the plastic plugs.

How to remove roof racks.

Once you ve done this a time or two most roof racks will only take about 5 15 minutes to remove. Bunch a nylon screen and insert it into the holes. Unlock the outer housing or lockable knob at the base of the feet using the thule key that came with the set. It is not necessary to sand past a half inch of the hole circumference.

Sand down the area surrounding the holes with sandpaper. Most simply clamp around your side rails or door jamb and can be removed by loosening a few bolts. Open the doors on both sides of the vehicle below where the roof bar is mounted. The later type the thule 444 was made starting in about 2002 and looked like this.

Nylon screen material can be purchased from a hardware store. The earlier rack used standard thule locksets and i suspect the 444 did too. Start by locating the point at which the rack attaches to your roof typically crossbars a side rail or a door jamb. Twist the knob on the.

There were at least two types of thule manufactured roof racks specifically designed for the mk3 jetta. Since you are standing on the driver s. Go up the ladder and remove the other 2 bolts as well. Today i show you how to pick and remove the lock cylinders on your yakima racks and accessories.

Slowly climb down the ladder and move it to the passenger s side. If a factory rack is installed without the proper roof reinforcement vehicles shipped without racks don t have these reinforcing plates welded in place and holes are just drilled into the roof and sheet metal screws or a bolt and nut combo is used buffeting from wind or excessive weight tied to the rack could distort the metal around the mounting holes to the point where the mounting bolts could greatly enlarge the holes or the bolts themselves could be be torn out damaging the roof. The earlier type which i have was made until about 2002 and looked like this.