etrailer | Installing the Rhino-Rack ROC25 Roof Rack for Naked Roofs on your 2019 Nissan Rogue

Click for more info and reviews of this Rhino Rack Roof Rack: https://www.etrailer.com/Roof-Rack/Rh... Check out some similar Roof Rack options: https://www.etrailer.com/fitguideroof... Search for other popular Nissan Rogue parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2019... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-r... AJ: What's up everybody It's A.J. with etrailer.com. Today we're going to be checking out this Rhino-Rack Roof Rack system called the ROC25 on our 2019 Nissan Rogue. And what this is, is a roof rack system for the naked roof of your vehicle. So it's going to be a complete system. You get the bars, the feet, the pads, and the clamps that are specific to your vehicle.Now what the roof rack is going to do for you is help you carry something. Let's say you don't have the hitch on the back of your vehicle like this one. You don't want to get a bike rack. You want to haul your bike on your roof. You can do that. You can get a cargo basket, a roof box, you can carry your skis up here. There's plenty of options to use this roof rack on top of your vehicle.Taking a closer look at it, I just want to show you what I mean by custom design. This rubber pad is what the custom part is for this roof rack. So it's made specifically for this 2019 Nissan Rogue. You can see how the rubber pad goes down into this groove and catches it here and it's flat. So it goes and conforms to the shape of the roof. And everyone of these is going to be different for every vehicle. That's why you get the kit specific to your vehicle. But they're all going to function the same way. They're all going to grip on that roof and catch it.While we're up here we might as well look at the bars themselves. They're made out of an aluminum, black-coated. It's a black matte finish, sorry. And it's reinforced on the inside. So it's not just aluminum, like a soda can, it's got reinforce. And they said it's like an H-design in the middle of it. And that's helps give it the strength so that it's not going to budge when you load it up with your gear.Now it does have a weight capacity of 165 pounds. So I would not exceed that. On these bars is a weather strip, which covers up the T-track channel. So this is a great option to do those T-track accessories that are going to slide in here and go where the weather strip goes. That way you don't have to use a clamp that's going to go around the whole bar. Because as you can see on this vehicle, it comes pretty close to the roof, a little bit there in the middle, more so on the back. So if you don't want to use those clamp-on accessories, or you just don't have the room to use them, I suggest using the T-track on top. Or you can just cut this to length wherever you want. So let's say that your bike rack slides in here, you would just cut this off and the bike rack would take up the space. That way it's still got the weather strip. It's not going to make noise when you go down the road. It just slightly makes noise. It's not very loud, but that could still get annoying over time.Now we'll move on to the foot. It's glass-reinforced nylon, and it's also UV treated. So you don't have to worry about the sun breaking it down, making it look bad, or even the elements. If you want to leave it on your roof all the time, it's not going to bother it. It'll be just fine.Along with that custom rubber pad is the clamp. Now these clamps are going to be the same, but they all have a rubberized inside. So you don't have to worry about them scratching the inside of your door jamb or the side of your roof here. That way, if you take them on and off, you don't have to worry about damage over time or anything. It's not going to happen. It'll be fine. Now it does fit and tighten up to your door jamb. So it pulls this clamp up the more you tighten this bolt down. And that's what keeps it in place. You see there's no movement whatsoever. So you don't have to worry about anything bad happening when you're going down the road.Now there is a cover for this, so this isn't exposed all the time. And another cool thing that Rhino Rack included is a lock. They don't all come with locks and locking caps. So it's nice that they have that. And you get two keys with it. That way you can keep one in your vehicle and one on your key ring. And then nobody can tamper with your roof rack when it's installed.So let's get some measurements for your load. First off, it's going to be from the roof to the bottom of the bars. You can already see there's not a whole lot of space. If we go in the center, or as close as I can get to the center, it looks like it's a little bit over 1.5" of space here. We go to the side, you're going to get a little bit more, it's going to be closer to 2