Has anyone fitted running boards to their X?

How do they fit and do they cause a sludge (i.e. corrosion) trap?

Are they cool or are they gash?


Asking for a friend..


Ralf S.

One might have to be careful here because on my 500X-2015 the sill trip is a "No Step" item.

If you mean running boards mounted below the sills then again a careless boot toe could overlap the "No Step" sill trim.

The ones I've... or rather my friend... has seen are apparently "no drilling - fit to existing holes" or similar, so I don't know where they'd mount to be honest.

If they mount to existing sill cover holes, they'll be held on by tiny bolts, so won't take any weight, which would seem to make the boards pretty useless.

And whenever I've been in a SuV with boards, I've always bashed my shins on them.. so my friend isn't sure he even likes them. But he saw some, they look blingy.. so just curious.

Ralf S.

What on earth are running boards

chris3234 said:

What on earth are running boards

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I think they are those external shelf platform/ledges that provide step in/step out platforms seen on many larger SUVs and full off road vehicles.

See: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=running+board+images&ei=fu9EYbjFCYevUKmzgsgC&oq=running+board+images&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB46BwgAEEcQsAM6BwgAELADEEM6EAguEMcBENEDEMgDELADEEM6EAguEMcBEKMCEMgDELADEEM6BQgAEIAEOggIABCABBDJAzoICAAQyQMQkQI6BQgAEJECSgUIOBIBMUoECEEYAFCIJFjdMWCXQGgBcAJ4AIABS4gBuQOSAQE3mAEAoAEByAENwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwi4_Pr64YbzAhWHFxQKHamZACkQ4dUDCA4&uact=5

There are videos on youtube on how to install them, but I don't really see the point of them on a small car like the 500x. Each to their own though

The video I looked at shows why when you have your tyres changed the vehicle MUST NOT be lifted anywhere along the sill line. The video clearly shows that the sill to floor pan is NOT a folded seam but just two bits tacked together. Then there is that huge gap (almost two inches) between the plastic sill trim bottom and the real steel sill above it.

Back to the running board fitting you can see that the outer mounts just use that tiny metal flange that the sill trim attaches to. I can't see this lasting a long life of people standing on the running board.

Yes.. that's what I was suspecting but the video proved it.. the inner end bolts into the rubber bunged hole and the other (outer) end bolts to the bracket whose job is otherwise just to hold on the plastic sill extension. It doesn't sound like a recipe for it becoming deformed over time at all..

Anyway.. I was just curious.



Ralf S.

Scourie said:

I don't really see the point of them on a small car like the 500x. Each to their own though

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Baby S. aka "Queen of the Sith" aged 3 1/2 now likes to climb into the car herself (mostly because she's tall enough that me lifting her in usually bashes her head into the top of the door frame.

Oops!

She can get into the Younger Mrs S's 500 okay... and she can just aboot get into my Stilo, but when my "X" turns up the door sill might be too much.

Mind you, she'll probably need a bigger child seat with less "bucket" on it, so I might not have to lift her up so high. Or I can buy her a cycle helmet..


Ralf S.

Ralf S. said:

She can get into the Younger Mrs S's 500 okay... and she can just aboot get into my Stilo, but when my "X" turns up the door sill might be too much.

Mind you, she'll probably need a bigger child seat with less "bucket" on it, so I might not have to lift her up so high. Or I can buy her a cycle helmet..
Ralf S.

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Kids (I'm told) like climbing ramps. Drop single rear split seat, remove parcel shelf, deploy ramp to rear. Put a fluff bunny at the top of the ramp and she will run up the ramp and join the other fluffy bunny next to her seat.

Problem solved