Roof rail tie down adapters

[jpcortese]

I had the dealer install GM OEM cross rails on my 2018 Denali and noticed that there are no tie down places on either the cross rail or the side rails. How do you secure items on the roof rack without places for tie down straps? Are there tie down adapters that go on either the side or cross rails?

 

[swathdiver]

I had the dealer install GM OEM cross rails on my 2018 Denali and noticed that there are no tie down places on either the cross rail or the side rails. How do you secure items on the roof rack without places for tie down straps? Are there tie down adapters that go on either the side or cross rails?

Well, we use the side and cross rails to secure loads where the two meet. Check out etrailer and see what they suggest.

 

[cardude2000]

I had the dealer install GM OEM cross rails on my 2018 Denali and noticed that there are no tie down places on either the cross rail or the side rails. How do you secure items on the roof rack without places for tie down straps? Are there tie down adapters that go on either the side or cross rails?

It’s indeed annoying that there isn’t even a hole in the ends to tie off on.

 

[cardude2000]

Well, we use the side and cross rails to secure loads where the two meet. Check out etrailer and see what they suggest.

How? There’s no hook or hole?


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[Doubeleive]

How? There’s no hook or hole?


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lol, seriously? you just tie around the cross member and rail where they meet, although I did get asked once what the "D" stood for by a grown man with a wife and 3 kids and a really cute chick once asked me how to put air in a tire (that one was allowable though) lol.

 

[swathdiver]

How? There’s no hook or hole?


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Well, if you're ends have a hook, you can either try to have the hook grab the croosrail or run the strap under the crossrail or side and then grab the strap with the hook.

Mine have a place on the side of the cross rail to do as you're wanting to do. All we ever put up there anyway are Christmas trees. If going on long trips we the extras in a trailer or basket attached to the hitch, more fuel efficient that way.

 

[cardude2000]

lol, seriously? you just tie around the cross member and rail where they meet, although I did get asked once what the "D" stood for by a grown man with a wife and 3 kids and a really cute chick once asked me how to put air in a tire (that one was allowable though) lol.

You have a 2015+....right?

Can you be a little more specific on where to place the rope around the rail?

Oh almost forgot ‘lol’

 

[cardude2000]

Mine have a place on the side of the cross rail to do as you're wanting to do.

As did my old Tahoe. The new gen doesn’t and the crossmember is like sloped Teflon making side to side tie downs very tough.

The front/back rails have nothing to tie to.

 

[swathdiver]

The front/back rails have nothing to tie to.

You tie off to the rails themselves. Does not matter if the end is flat or has a hook or a loop.

 

[cardude2000]

You tie off to the rails themselves. Does not matter if the end is flat or has a hook or a loop.

How do you tie to the side rails? You can’t go under over or through them...The crossmembers are like Teflon and your only option is to tie in an X pattern (left front to back right as an example) and they will still slip.


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