How To Take Off A Roof Rack

Clean up your lid by removing your car s ugly roof rack without welding.

How to take off a roof rack.

Start by locating the point at which the rack attaches to your roof typically crossbars a side rail or a door jamb. To remove the factory roof rail plugs without damage you need to know how they work. First we need to loosen and remove the front cross bar s bolt. Nylon screen material can be purchased from a hardware store.

Sand down the area surrounding the holes with sandpaper. Once you ve done this a time or two most roof racks will only take about 5 15 minutes to remove. It is not necessary to sand past a half inch of the hole circumference. Once the front cross bar bolt is removed remove the rear cross bar bolt as well.

Depending on the size of this bolt various models have unique bolts remove the bolt accordingly.