05/27/2026
Full Review👇🏼
The Exposed Rack system is awesome! Love it! It’s a quality built, well thought out and engineered design and the installation is easy.
The fit and finish is also excellent. The matte black traction coating paint is robust and should adequately protect the steel mounts and crossbars from rust and corrosion and also enables the rack to stealthily blend in well with the black rooftop of our Jeep Wrangler JLU.
The low-profile design and the fact that it can be securely mounted to the roof gutters is excellent. The rack mounts attach solidly and securely to the roof gutters. When testing the install by grabbing and shaking the crossbars, there is no play whatsoever and when you shake the rack to test it the whole vehicle rocks.
Another positive is that, unlike another rack manufacturer, you don’t need to drill any holes in the roof nor do you have to install an internal skeleton system for support (an additional cost) to carry heavy loads like a rooftop tent.
With many other racks we looked at before making our decision to go with Exposed Racks, there were complaints of wind noise and whistling at highway speeds. We haven’t noticed any whistling or noise when driving with just the racks on.
We also purchased the Kayak basket which works great and makes loading and unloading the kayaks super easy and the Kayaks are very secure during transport. With the Kayak we there is a slight bit of additional wind noise at speeds above 60mph but not very bad at all and to be expected with such a large kayak sitting on top of a tall Jeep.
Also, using two mounting plates we were able to mount a Kuat Piston SR2 Pro bike rack (which is also an awesome piece of gear) to the rack.
Using an Exposed Racks 24” click-in post we will also be installing a Eufy S330 wireless security camera which can be simply clicked-out and removed while traveling and clicked-in while camping to keep an eye on things while we are away and also to keep watch of the campsite perimeter.
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