Greenlane off-road aluminum sliders

[SpeedyKevin]

Dont have to deal with much rust out here in the west thankfully. However, if I were anywhere near salted roads...yea i could see the value in these if i used them for a non supet hardcore crawler. My sliders are pretty dinged up and showing quite a bit of rust. Would be a whole lot worse if i drove on salted roads

 

[Engineer]

So your steel sliders were $350? Good deal. I doubt I will ever really need/damage them but when I do, I will make sure to arouse and titillate you with some pictures.

haha just ignore him - thanks for the photos I am in all likely hood going to go this direction - tried spray can rust oleum (with prep) on my budbuilts and that lasted for shit after a winter, then went powder coating and it has held up better but now needs to be redone - either getting them line-X'd (basically the cost of a new sliders.... or going Aluminum. My skids are aluminum and while bashed to hell they have done the job. The sliders have some scuffs but nothing that yours would not hold up to - they should be used for skidding across things not violently dropping a 3 ton truck (with the amount of crap most of us have) on.

 

[michalik.piotr6837]

Glad pics helped. Lol, ya, everyone has different needs based on where they live and how they use their trucks for sure. With the exchange rates, no wait times and nice owner of a small company I feel these were a very fair deal especially for aluminum and the quality is as good as u could ask for. I would buy again and recommend.

 

[bglock78]

Really like those sliders. Might have to try some myself.

 

[1100 Remington Man]

I went with Greenlane because I live in Iowa and they use a lot of salt and on my previous truck I got trail damage on both doors when I was out west hunting but in different years.

 

[Engineer]

haha just ignore him - thanks for the photos I am in all likely hood going to go this direction - tried spray can rust oleum (with prep) on my budbuilts and that lasted for shit after a winter, then went powder coating and it has held up better but now needs to be redone - either getting them line-X'd (basically the cost of a new sliders.... or going Aluminum. My skids are aluminum and while bashed to hell they have done the job. The sliders have some scuffs but nothing that yours would not hold up to - they should be used for skidding across things not violently dropping a 3 ton truck (with the amount of crap most of us have) on.

Quoting myself because I did end up replacing by BudBuilts with Greenlane and got a chance to use them out in Utah recently, they held up just fine to the couple impact events that occurred, as expected. Also replace the RCI skids with a new set (both were/are Alu.) - like the new design from RCI vs the original , no complaints having to replace them after the abuse they sustained.

 

[Grug556]

Yup. We drive on the beach a lot so we will see how salt effects it.

You should get it powder coated. The base aluminum needs a protective coating. Not coating it was a serious mistake.

Powdered aluminum with proper conversion coating and metal prep can easily withstand 3000 plus hours of B117 salt spray and comparable hours of the more rigorous G85 cyclic testing.

Take it off and have somebody prep it and coat it, youll like it better long term.

 

[Grug556]

well, nix that. In the Q&A they say it doesn't work with the limited. Weird, lots of companies' sliders work with Limited, and only have a different model for the KDSS trucks.

Most sliders work with the Limited. But you either have to space the XREAs pump booster outwards on shims/spacers or go around it. You have some play with the hardlines if you space outwards from the frame. Sometimes you need to drill a couple of holes and use stakenuts to secure it. I spent ages putting sliders on my Limited..even dropped one on my face during install, just missed knocking out my teeth. Anyhow, once I was done... i then a month later ripped out the whole XREAs thing, but it can be worked with all the same. I have no comments on KDSS ones as I havent seen the layout.

 

[Xtremluck]

I'm really curious to how these hold up. I'm a huge fan of using aluminum in places where it makes sense. My skids are aluminum and so is my front bumper but my sliders and rear bumper are steel and there is a reason for that. Both are places that frequently get a good amount of weight dropped on rocks.

Not sure if sliders not designed to carry the truck's weight would be good for this application. I'm sure there is a way to do it with aluminum but obviously these aren't engineered to do that. A shame since it would be nice to save more weight.

 

[HanginInUtah]

Quoting myself because I did end up replacing by BudBuilts with Greenlane and got a chance to use them out in Utah recently, they held up just fine to the couple impact events that occurred, as expected. Also replace the RCI skids with a new set (both were/are Alu.) - like the new design from RCI vs the original , no complaints having to replace them after the abuse they sustained.

I've considered aluminum, but was wondering about the beating they would take. Where were you having fun here in Utah? Did you get some good obstacles to slide off of? I like new ideas to solve old problems, and less weight that can take a bounce or two is a good idea.

 

[Xtremluck]

Well one of the use cases for sliders is also a jacking point. I use my hi lift relatively frequently to self recover. Lift the truck up, fill in holes with Maxtrax or rocks and drive out. Greenlane explicitly says that their sliders cant do this so that is a dis qualifier for me

 

[bigdaddy2021]

Well one of the use cases for sliders is also a jacking point. I use my hi lift relatively frequently to self recover. Lift the truck up, fill in holes with Maxtrax or rocks and drive out. Greenlane explicitly says that their sliders cant do this so that is a dis qualifier for me

Same. They were off the list immediately, though I would have liked to save some weight.

 

[Grug556]

Well one of the use cases for sliders is also a jacking point. I use my hi lift relatively frequently to self recover. Lift the truck up, fill in holes with Maxtrax or rocks and drive out. Greenlane explicitly says that their sliders cant do this so that is a dis qualifier for me

Sure says alot on how structurally weak they must be to not even handle a jackpoint off them.

 

[jp.vegas]

Sure says alot on how structurally weak they must be to not even handle a jackpoint off them.

"Sliders"

 

[17KT4R]

Hmmm. Didn’t really know any of that. I can say I’ve used my floor jack on either side, off the gusset of these things when swapping to change snow tires for clearance issues in the garage. I certainly didn’t hear any creaking or otherwise off the frame plates or from the bolts LoL. But maybe depends on where you are grabbing off these I don’t know… maybe I’ll stop doing that now then!

 

[WarEagle4x4]

Hmmm. Didn’t really know any of that. I can say I’ve used my floor jack on either side, off the gusset of these things when swapping to change snow tires for clearance issues in the garage. I certainly didn’t hear any creaking or otherwise off the frame plates or from the bolts LoL. But maybe depends on where you are grabbing off these I don’t know… maybe I’ll stop doing that now then!

Are yours flat or angled? Do you have any other pictures? Trying to determine which ones I want to get

 

[17KT4R]

Yes they are angled up. I thought that is the better option both in terms of look and intended function. I’ve certainly had to drive out of a Starbucks drive through due to impatience so ground clearance is important while curb hopping [emoji1787]

Anyway, they work just as well for me as far as a step surface goes but of course they are slightly higher than the OEM plastic so there’s that consideration I guess.

 

[Jumpmen]

Is anyone able to measure how wide these are at the front a rear door with pics? I want to see how usable they are as a step.

 

[17KT4R]

I’ve found as much under my size 12 shoes getting in as the plastic OEMs had, plus the coating is anti slip. More at rear of course. Maybe don’t look at the angled option then I suppose if they are flat out there’s a tad more for surface area? Email them I’m sure you’ll get the specifics [emoji1360]

 

[Jumpmen]

Anyone make contact with the sliders off road or in parking lot? Did they bend or dent?