Best roof rack options

1. I ultimately ended up with an RCI roof rack to match my sliders..
   
   I was originally back and forth between Wescott and RCI, I decided to go with Wescott for the rack (YouTube videos sold me). Unfortunately I had a very interesting experience with thier customer service person. I ordered direct online then immediately canceled (within 3 minutes) because a distributor was offering (shipping was the difference) the rack for over $100 less. Wescott required that I pay a $30 fee to cancel. I get it (merchant fees), paid the fee no problem, but the correspondence could have been a bit more professional on thier end.
   
   Wescott seems to have a great product, at least the other product I previously bought was well done. They appear to have it so dialed in, selling product hand over fist that they did not NEED my money. That was how the correspondence made me feel and that did not sit right, especially being an existing customer. They are right though, they dont need my money......
   
   Maybe the girl was having a bad day, maybe I should have bought their sliders as well and then I would have climbed the customer worth scale.
   
   Regardless, I am very happy I pulled the trigger on the RCI rack, it is a great product in my opinion and a better value. I am seeing more and more people choosing RCI now too. The sliders I bought are very high quality, I should have gone with RCI rack from the beginning.
   
   One more thing, RCI was appreciative that I did business with them, what a concept!
   

 

Anyone have any roof rack recommendations for someone that experienced a lot of corrosion issues in the past with Prinsu living in Minnesota? Prior to getting my Tacoma I had a RAV4 with a Prinsu rack and I had hardware issues the whole time I owned it. Tried 3 different types of hardware and all had issues with rusting/corrosion/seizing. I like the look of the Prinsu but was also looking at Sherpa hoping to avoid the hardware issues. Anyone else in this region have better luck? I bought the Prinsu rack ~4 years ago and have heard they changed their hardware since then.

 

I live in Minnesota as well and have used Yakima racks for ages with no issues but some color fading.
My truck is always parked outside and my current Yakima platform is 3 years old. I have taken it off a couple times, all the Yakima hardware was in great shape no rusting.

I swapped out the tower mounts for a lower profile ARB mount last year.

 

You will need corrosion-free hardware.

You can look it up on Google to find out where they are being sold at near you or order online and they will be shipped out to you.

 

This is super helpful. I had no idea that if I wanted to avoid corrosion I needed corrosion free hardware. Unfortunately I tried multiple versions of this an nothing worked. Zinc coated carbon steel, stainless steel, black oxide stainless steel and all of them either rusted or had galvanic corrosion due to SS/aluminum which led to seizing.