harrycatcat1 Posted June 25, 2023 Report Share Posted June 25, 2023 My previous car which I had for four and a half years didn't have sidesteps on. In fact I spent ages looking for one without them on as I don't like them. I have changed my car and my lad now has my old one. I now have a car with deployable steps but I have turned them off. Today my lad and I fitted some aftermarket steps as he likes the look of them 🙄🙄 as long as he is happy I suppose 😀 It took about an hour per side but we took our time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted June 25, 2023 Report Share Posted June 25, 2023 Didn’t realise Duck’s Disease was rife in Chesterfield! It’s not even a high car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted June 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2023 18 minutes ago, London Best said: Didn’t realise Duck’s Disease was rife in Chesterfield! It’s not even a high car. What is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted June 25, 2023 Report Share Posted June 25, 2023 (edited) 15 minutes ago, harrycatcat1 said: What is it? What? The car or Duck’s Disease? No idea on the car, but it doesn’t look very elevated in the picture. DD is short legs.(@ss too close to the floor.) I’m in agreement with you, I don’t like them either. I bought my vehicle with steps fitted in 2014 and I have been threatening to remove them from day one, but have never got around to it. Edited June 25, 2023 by London Best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted June 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2023 14 minutes ago, London Best said: What? The car or Duck’s Disease? No idea on the car, but it doesn’t look very elevated in the picture. DD is short legs.(@ss too close to the floor.) To be honest you have completely lost me 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted June 25, 2023 Report Share Posted June 25, 2023 Just now, harrycatcat1 said: To be honest you have completely lost me 🤔 Sorry, I was only joking with you. Having Duck’s Disease is what is jokingly said to short people, implying their bum is too close to the floor. Forget it, no offence intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted June 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2023 10 hours ago, London Best said: Sorry, I was only joking with you. Having Duck’s Disease is what is jokingly said to short people, implying their bum is too close to the floor. Forget it, no offence intended. Ah, I see its me that is slow on the uptake it was a long day yesterday 👍👍👍👍 no the steps are just for aesthetics 🙄🙄🙄🙄 like I said I'm not keen on them at all but we are all different and as long as he's happy "pimping" it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted June 26, 2023 Report Share Posted June 26, 2023 10 hours ago, London Best said: Sorry, I was only joking with you. Having Duck’s Disease is what is jokingly said to short people, implying their bum is too close to the floor. Forget it, no offence intended. I got it LB. Only us of a certain age would know the phrase. Unfortunately it’s something that I have suffered from for years 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted June 26, 2023 Report Share Posted June 26, 2023 Only thing I have found side steps good for is keeping mud off your car and onto your legs as you get in and out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted June 26, 2023 Report Share Posted June 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Old Boggy said: I got it LB. Only us of a certain age would know the phrase. Unfortunately it’s something that I have suffered from for years 😂 I am a semi-sufferer. I was nearly six foot with 29 inch inside legs. 1 hour ago, 39TDS said: Only thing I have found side steps good for is keeping mud off your car and onto your legs as you get in and out And bruising your shins! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted June 26, 2023 Report Share Posted June 26, 2023 I’ll admit, I like them. I fitted steps to my old Discovery 3 years ago. They looked much better. Shame they rotted faster than a Sierra in a wet field in winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted June 29, 2023 Report Share Posted June 29, 2023 My Defender came with genuine LR side steps and I always meant to remove them as despite being short, I have never needed them. Plastic 'coated' steel, rotted through from the inside and nearly caused a nasty accident when one broke under someone's weight. They were also lethally slippery when wet. Would never have them again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted June 29, 2023 Report Share Posted June 29, 2023 1 hour ago, JohnfromUK said: My Defender came with genuine LR side steps and I always meant to remove them as despite being short, I have never needed them. Plastic 'coated' steel, rotted through from the inside and nearly caused a nasty accident when one broke under someone's weight. They were also lethally slippery when wet. Would never have them again. This. Nine years down the road and mine are beginning to look decidedly tatty. I have fat friends too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted June 29, 2023 Report Share Posted June 29, 2023 My pathfinder had sidesteps great for when your shopping nobody can scratch your door when opening theres . Till the mounts snapped on the passenger one i took longer than necessary getting it fixed as the wife was funny trying to get in the truck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCB56 Posted June 29, 2023 Report Share Posted June 29, 2023 My 2001 Navara had side steps that outlasted the rest of the truck that I scrapped last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted June 29, 2023 Report Share Posted June 29, 2023 Had a few 4 x4s with side steps and never noticed a problem. Current SUV came with sidesteps - they did look good - until we drove home. My wife banged the back of her legs getting out. I took them off the day we bought the car. My eldest had a Volkswagen Toureg, then a Mercedes GLE - always found them awkward. He changed the GLE to an EQC - no problem, but then got his wife a Mercedes V Class - same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agriv8 Posted July 7, 2023 Report Share Posted July 7, 2023 Got em on my van for getting my mum and dad in 80+ and dad has arthritis . added advantage that it protects the side of the van from them bollards that move when Mrs Agriv8 is In Morrison’s! Agriv8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSpredder Posted July 7, 2023 Report Share Posted July 7, 2023 We called them running boards. Handy when rounding up cattle, because the lads could jump on and off as required, and cowdung on boots didn't get transferred to the interior of father's car. Police also made use of them, if this old film ("The Hangman Waits") is to be believed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 7, 2023 Report Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, McSpredder said: We called them running boards. Handy when rounding up cattle, because the lads could jump on and off as required, and cowdung on boots didn't get transferred to the interior of father's car. Police also made use of them, if this old film ("The Hangman Waits") is to be believed. that was in the day when binmen all hung on the back of the modern bin wagons standing on an old scaffold board...rolling a fag and larfing teir tits off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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