Can I ask a question about my Liberty........?

Unless you are short I would put them on, for the adverage height person they are just in the way, if you can comfotably get into your jeep now, all side steps do is add 4 - 6" farther to step from. But my brother-in-laws wife is only about 5' tall, she acually uses the step as a step, for her it's great, but for the other 3 to 5 people in the vehicle it's lowsy.

I think of a side step as just that, an open added step like they put on the TJ Wrangler. These are always the first thing to get damaged off road, but are handy for short people. They just get the back of the pants dirty on tall people.

I think of running boards as a long 'step' that runs from the front wheel well to the rear one to prevent rocks from flying up while holding mud and salt and snow on top to rot the rocker panels of the vehicle out.

I am in Canada and have never seen an older vehicle with running boards that doesn't have a serious rot problem from them. The 'dealers' love to put them on, they know in 3 or 4 years you will be back for extensive rust repairs or for a new on because the floors just fell out...

If you are going for a functional one, the open step or open bar type are what I would recommend, not the running board.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

AK wrote:

Angela, Look really carefully how much you will be charged for these, and compare them with US prices. You want a US company that will ship BAX Global. You shouldn't have to pay more than 120 bucks shipping..

Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

Yeah like Mike said, try an avoid the flat style running boards, I have those on the wife's XJ and at some point soon I have to do some rocker panel repairs. If you really want the look or need the functionality of running boards you should try and find something like this,

they are commonlycalled nerf-bars. The wife has already expressed her want of another XJ,the next one will have nerf bars not just plain running boards. Snow...

93 XJ , 85 % stock ...

Thanks everyone for the responses. I think I will see how it goes without them in the first instance and if I do go for them I'll take the advice here.

Many thanks

Angela