ChucktownRunner
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Sorry for the long post but wanted to warn everyone who owns/looking to buy the Sport Edition nerf bars about a lesson I had to learn the hard way. Maybe some of the owners already know this, but definitely wanted to let people looking to purchase a set know. Hopefully prevent you from damaging your nerf bars, or purchasing some bad bars.
Make sure the end caps on your nerf bars are completely sealed. If not, you're going to have some major problems. Why?
I bought some second hand nerf bars from a member I won't name. He'd sent me picture of them and they looked pretty good (especially for $100). Long story short (not really), he shipped them to me and when I opened them they were pretty dirty. Went to go wash them in the yard (hand wash and didn't really noticed anything wrong yet). Toweled them off and noticed some chipped paint on the ends (only noticed one spot, in the same spot on both bars). Wasn't happy but wasn't a deal breaker at this point. Started putting them on my SR5 and noticed a few more chipped spots under the one I was putting on. (Oh well.. They're on the bottom. No one will be able to see them) Go to put on the second one and notice more chipped spots under it also. Threw the bolts on the second bar real quick and then started to take a closer look at the bars. What I found is that all 4 end caps were not sealed completely on the bars. Some form of water (rain/snow/who knows) had been getting through the unsealed end caps and sitting in the bottom of the bars on top of this layer that is chipping off. This is why the chipped paint was more profound on the ends. It's rotted a lot of the bars paint layer and will probably be popping off here shortly also. Here's the bigger problems, the material up under this chipped layer doesn't seam to be metal. It feels more like a styrofoam. Not 100% on this, but don't think you can paint that stuff and have it look factory quality again (I'm sure there's that 1% out there that can).
Talked with the seller about this. Seemed understanding at first. Sent him pictures of the bars and he believed that I was trying to scam him. Said his bars didn't look like that when he sent them to me and he didn't believe they were his since they were on my car in the picture. I guess I can understand that to a degree, although they were dirty and had been sitting in his dad's barn. If they would have been washed before being shipped, then they'd look like they do now. But I should have given them a real close inspection before putting them on instead of a quick look over.
Probably shouldn't buy 2nd hand nerf bars unless you can personally inspect them before hand.
Make sure the end caps on your nerf bars are completely sealed. If not, you're going to have some major problems. Why?
I bought some second hand nerf bars from a member I won't name. He'd sent me picture of them and they looked pretty good (especially for $100). Long story short (not really), he shipped them to me and when I opened them they were pretty dirty. Went to go wash them in the yard (hand wash and didn't really noticed anything wrong yet). Toweled them off and noticed some chipped paint on the ends (only noticed one spot, in the same spot on both bars). Wasn't happy but wasn't a deal breaker at this point. Started putting them on my SR5 and noticed a few more chipped spots under the one I was putting on. (Oh well.. They're on the bottom. No one will be able to see them) Go to put on the second one and notice more chipped spots under it also. Threw the bolts on the second bar real quick and then started to take a closer look at the bars. What I found is that all 4 end caps were not sealed completely on the bars. Some form of water (rain/snow/who knows) had been getting through the unsealed end caps and sitting in the bottom of the bars on top of this layer that is chipping off. This is why the chipped paint was more profound on the ends. It's rotted a lot of the bars paint layer and will probably be popping off here shortly also. Here's the bigger problems, the material up under this chipped layer doesn't seam to be metal. It feels more like a styrofoam. Not 100% on this, but don't think you can paint that stuff and have it look factory quality again (I'm sure there's that 1% out there that can).
Talked with the seller about this. Seemed understanding at first. Sent him pictures of the bars and he believed that I was trying to scam him. Said his bars didn't look like that when he sent them to me and he didn't believe they were his since they were on my car in the picture. I guess I can understand that to a degree, although they were dirty and had been sitting in his dad's barn. If they would have been washed before being shipped, then they'd look like they do now. But I should have given them a real close inspection before putting them on instead of a quick look over.
Probably shouldn't buy 2nd hand nerf bars unless you can personally inspect them before hand.
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