Yak rack??

Just looked at a yakma rack from REI for a ford focus; $830. I was NOT expecting that! I have two yaks and need a rack to get them around. How does everybody else get them around?

custom yackima rails and landing pads/controll towers  Total cost about $300 plus teh joy of drilling holes in your car 

Just looked at a yakma rack from REI for a ford focus; $830. I was NOT expecting that! I have two yaks and need a rack to get them around. How does everybody else get them around?

$830   

For that price I would go with the foam and rope set up I saw at Costco this weekend for $20 or $30.

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Seems like the newer the auto, the more the yakima charges.
I would go for the foam & straps unless you have cash to burn. The foam blocks will work for a while until you decide what you want to do.

I've got the yakima q tower system on my pickup shell, all I had to do was install the gutter plates, total cost was about $200.
On my bronco, the thing's pretty much a beater used mostly for shuttling the kayak, so I've got a rusted steel basket rack bolted through the roof, when it was new the rack cost me about $200.

I suspect the focus doesn't have gutters, and it does have a rounded roof, which make the tower choice especially important ie, yakima figures they have you in a corner.

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Totally.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/spo/680479488.html

ebay... @ half the cost.

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lumber rack if you have a pickup.