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Yakima Control Tower Landing Pad - #6, #7, #11 and #12

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Landing Pads are the other part of the Control Tower system, made to fit a range of "other" vehicle applications.

Landing Pads #6 bolt onto just about any surface: truck caps, tent trailers, RVs and boats
Landing Pads #7 come with blind fasteners and are great for hard-to fit vehicles where you can't get to the underside of the roof
Landing Pads #11 are designed to fit on many different factory mounting points
Attachment to Control Towers (sold separately) is quick and easy
Custom-sized to distribute load evenly; custom pads offer great protection
Seal tight to keep water out
Long-lasting, stainless-steel hardware
Set of 2 for Landing Pads 6, 7 and 11; set of 4 for Landing Pad 12

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Yakima Control Tower Landing Pad - #6, #7, #11 and #12 Customer Reviews

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Yakima Control Tower Landing Pad - #6, #7, #11 and #12

3.7

(based on 3 reviews)

67%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

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Feb

2011

5.0

>= any other rack mount method

By knowWhentoFold

from Western Washington

About Me Intermediate

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Pros

Compact
Permanent
Simple
Stable

Cons

Needs Professional instal
Permanent

Best Uses

Small Cars

Comments about Yakima Control Tower Landing Pad - #6, #7, #11 and #12:

As a former owner of a Volvo wagon with roof rails, the bare racks were noisy at speed and dropped the mpg by 2 or more. I disliked the headache of the 10 minute removal of my bars when I wasn't carrying a bike or kayak. I did a bit of research. A friend advised having rails installed and Landing pads, permitting a very fast removal and installation. My replacement vehicle is the newly redesigned Hyundai Elantra--I felt a bit nervous about having permanent hardware (by a Portland, OR rack installing firm) on a new model car, but I felt reassured by their professional approach re: air bag gas cylinders and positioning the bars so that my kayak wouldn't point up or down. I pulled the trigger, going with the landing pads, but not the rails. Labor was $100. As I had my own lock cores and bars, adding Landing Pads & Control Towers brought the total cost to $329.

The standard rack system using Q towers and clips would have required much more work to attach/detach and would have left me feeling much less secure about the installation.

The labor cost might be less, if you have a car like Mazda 3, which has nuts built in under the composite roof strips.

I am happy.

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Oct

2010

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

1.0

Beware of denting

By RackGuy

from Oregon

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Pros

Easy To Install
Easy To Use
Stable

Cons

Dents Certain Cars

Best Uses

None

Comments about Yakima Control Tower Landing Pad - #6, #7, #11 and #12:

The Landing Pad 11 seems like a great product, but it dents cars. Even with minimal tightening it dents BMW 3 Series. The worst part about this is it is a known issue with Yakima and they refuse to change the fit or even put a warning on it. The good news is that if it dents your car you can get them to pay for the damage, but it takes FOREVER for them to process it.

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Apr

2010

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

A more permanent solution to the Q-tower

By Vegas Outdoorsman

from Las Vegas, NV

About Me Intermediate

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Pros

Durable
Easy To Install
Easy To Use
Stable

Cons

Best Uses

Large Cars
Luxury Cars
Small Cars
SUV's
Trucks

Comments about Yakima Control Tower Landing Pad - #6, #7, #11 and #12:

We had a set of Q-towers fail on an '05 Mazda 3 when we had 4 mt. bikes on our rack. After that we decided to try these for a safer mount. They work and look great, but the mounting options on our Mazda 3 hatchback left the bars too close together for our old wheel-chock and fork-mount bike mounts. Not the products fault, but wanted to mention this for other buyers.