Member Since: 13 Apr 2014
Location: Poole
Posts: 289
Have you looked under your side steps recently?
Its a wonder my foot didn't go through these.
Took me about an hour and a half to change them. Two of the studs had to be ground off. The others just snapped. The brackets themselves were a different story. Just a bit of surface rust, so I reused them.
Looks a lot better now too.
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9th Apr 2015 9:42 pm
Alan B
Member Since: 12 Feb 2013
Location: Fife
Posts: 6528
Thats probably why i went for the bars instead
Oh and no cutting involved either, just crappy L bolts
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9th Apr 2015 10:29 pm
MGCarr
Member Since: 15 Jul 2014
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 703
Mine look just like that, they just have not got to the top of my Discovery jobs to do list yet. Be careful reusing the brackets, I did that on my previous P38 and about 2 years later SWMBO stood on the side step and it snapped, it had obviously taken more of the surface than I thought.
Or she had put more weight on You can guess which one she blamed it on
1997 Defender 90 for the kids and I to have a go at some competitive off road RTV and Tyro trials, daughter picked up her first trophy over the August Bank Holiday.
Previous Land Rover history
1996 P38 4.6 V8 Autobiography
1996 Discovery TDi 300
1972 Range Rover 3.5 V8
LWB Hard Top Series 3
LWB Truck Cab Series 2A
Not been without a Land Rover for over 40 years - I must need therapy!
That is pretty much what mine have looked like for years!
They do get bashed a lot when (properly) off road but the strength of the brackets is amazing. So many times now that I have had to recruit 3 or 4 hefty folk to jump on the step in unison to bend it back down so I may open the door.
As I no longer associate with anyone who needs the step, I would replace them with rock and tree slidies but I'll wait until they fall off as I'm lazy.A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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