Is the Profile 2000 noisy at all? I am sure there is some noise, but is it bad?

Used 50's.

limited wind noise but nothing too major.

Froogleyankee...just wanted to make a correction to your recommendation of using the LB50 crossbars instead of the longer LB58s. I followed your recommendation and bought some LB50s and the bars are almost flushed with the feet attachments, leaving no room for the end caps. So I went out and exchanged them for the LB58s and now they looked exactly like the picture you posted. There's about 4" extension beyond the feet attachment on each end. Therefore, I believed those Thule bars on your X are more like LB58's rather than LB50's.

I guess that's why Thule recommends the 58's on their web site...

I'm confused, what all do I have to get if I get the THULE's? I'm using it for snowboarding. How easy is it to install/uninstall this?

http://www.orsracksdirect.com/thule-...oof-racks.html

Click the "Thule Automated Fit Guide".

I know it can get confusing a first, but it's not really all that bad. OK...I just bought all their stuffs for snowboarding as well. You baiscally only need 4 items:

1) Crossroad 450 Footpack
2) LB58 crossbars
3) 724 or 725 Flat top ski rack attachment depending on whether you want to carry 2 or 4 snowboards (I'll go with the 725 for carring 4 boards as it is only a $10 price difference).
4) Six pack lock cores (you'll need 4 for the feet and 2 for the board attachment)

You can also get the optional fairing a well...to help reduce wind noise, but I figured, it's gonna get noisy anyway with the boards and bindings on the roof that it might not make that much of a difference....so I skipped it.

Installation is pretty easy. The Thule website have all the installation instruction...if you want to take a quick glance at them. It took me about 20minutes to put it on because I was learning everything as I go. I would say it should take no longer than 10minutes once you get familiar with the setup.

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Me, too. I also wasn't happy that the fairing reportedly has a chance of rubbing the paint on the roof.

Same with me. I spent a good 20-30 minutes figuring it all out, making sure everything was even, etc. Now when I put them on, it takes 5 minutes.