Today our 2007 volkswagen passat we’ll be doing a test fit of the thule sprint roof mounted bike rack that’s part number th528 I’ve already got the Thule AeroBlade rapid rapid Traverse roof rack system excuse me already installed on our vehicle here today we’re going to begin our test fit by removing these click on doing the straps underneath here we’re going to put that on our load bar make sure that the strap goes underneath and then same thing with this one here alright what we’re going to do is we’re going to the idea is to put the strap up into here you can see it’s too tight right now so we’ll come over here to our lever and we’ll loosen that up just about there alright so we’ve got it sitting on an OPS there come back over to our lever and tighten that down there’s no reason to over tighten the entire mechanism has a nice rubber coating and a pad as well as a strap so it’s going to provide a nice good grip when it’s pretty tightened down so that feels pretty good we can move on to the back same thing here the idea is to get the strap up into the notched portion there we go we’re just about got it perfect now well we’re back here let’s go ahead and undo our rear wheel strap get that out of the way now what we want to do here is we want to make sure that we provided enough room in our skewer here for our fork to sit down in she can see there’s plenty of room there so let’s go ahead and grab a bike bring our back tire up set in the cradle there and we’ll set our fork down and here now the way we want to tighten that up is with this front bullet here start bringing that in and that’s going to provide a nice tight fit around our fork so it doesn’t move and we’ve got that nice and tight has a nice clicking for what its properly torqued down okay now back here we just want to make sure that our strap comes between our spokes like it is there we’re going to nice and tight down make sure the pad sits on the wheel to protect the finish and then we’re ready to hit the road and then that’s going to complete our test fit of the thule sprint roof mounted bike rack part number th528 on our 2007 volkswagen passat let’s see how that performed on our test course this is our test course let’s start with the slalom this shows side-to-side action such as turning corners or evasive maneuvering then onto our alternating speed bumps this shows twisting action such as hitting curbs potholes road debris or uneven pavement and last of all the
solid speed bumps this shows up and down action such as driving through a parking lot or parking garage or driving in and out of a driveway you you
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