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2009 Yakima Rack And Roll Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Feb 19, 2015
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Oct 13, 2011

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2009 Yakima Rack And Roll. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Other / unspecified
Filed Feb 19, 2015

ON JULY 22, 2014, I WAS DRIVING ON RT 95 IN CT WHEN THE KAYAK ON TOP OF MY CAR CAME OFF AND WENT SLIDING DOWN I-95. FORTUNATELY TRAFFIC WAS LIGHT AND NO WAS HURT. THE PROBLEM WAS THE FAILURE OF A YAKIMA-SUPPLIED CAM STRAP. I DO NOT KNOW HOW OFTEN THESE STRAPS FAIL, BUT THIS IS A POTENTIALLY SERIOUS PROBLEM. I HAVE NOW GONE BACK TO USING MARINE ROPE TO ATTACH MY KAYAK, AND I HAVE DRIVEN OVER 10,000 MILES WITH THIS SETUP AND NEVER HAVE HAD A PROBLEM. *TR

NHTSA ID
10684272
Incident
Jul 22, 2014
Other / unspecified
Filed Oct 13, 2011

I TRIED TO INSTALL A YAKIMA ROOF RACK ON A NAKED ROOF. THE Q TOWERS CONNECT THE CROSS-BARS TO THE CLIPS THAT ATTACH TO THE ROOF. THE ROOF RACK IS SECURED BY SNAPPING THE CAM COVERS THAT ARE PART OF THE Q TOWERS. WITH THE Q TOWERS THAT I PURCHASED, I WAS NOT ABLE TO FULLY SNAP THE CAM COVERS AS THEIR SHAPE WAS NOT RIGHT. I BORROWED Q TOWERS FROM A FRIEND WHO HAD AN OLDER MODEL AND COULD INSTALL THE BARS WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM. WITHOUT THE CAM COVER FULLY ENGAGED, THE Q TOWERS ARE LOOSE AND THE ROOF RACK COULD DETACH FROM THE ROOF. *TR

NHTSA ID
10429984
Incident
Aug 6, 2011

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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