DeeZee NXt Running Boards w Custom Installation Kit - 6" Wide - Aluminum - Black Powder Coat

Video Transcript for DeeZee NXt Running Boards Installation - 2016 Chevrolet Colorado

Today on our 2016 Chevrolet Colorado, we will be installing a DeeZee Nxt running boards with custom installation kit, part number DZ16321-16319. Here's what our running board looks like installed. You can see it's a nice, sleek look. They are a full cab-length running board to help us get in and out of our truck. They are coated in a durable finish that won't scratch or rust.

We have these nice rubberized grommets here to help provide traction in wet or snowy conditions. The 6" platform gives us a nice, sturdy, and easy way to get in and out of our vehicle. If your truck was to have a roof rack, these would give you a great way to have a platform to stand on to help load and strap down any of your accessories to your roof rack. These running boards have a weight capacity of 350 pounds. Here's what our running board kit consists of for one side of the vehicle. We obviously have a running board here.

We have three mounting legs that will attach to the body of the vehicle. As you can see, two are the same and one's different. We have six bolts, six speed nuts which will clip into the body and out brackets will attach to, and six nuts to secure our running boards to the brackets. If we flip our running board over, you can see the hardware here that they'll attach on. You can take off the protective paper that holds them all together and we'll have two towards the front, two towards the rear, and two in the middle. Not that we've gone over some features of our running boards, we'll show you how to get them installed on our 2016 Chevrolet Colorado.

At the front of our driver's door there's a couple of plugs underneath that we need to remove. The first plug right here, just take a screwdriver and pop it out. With that plug removed, we'll take our bracket and see which other one we need to remove . this one right here. I'll pop that one out.

We'll take our two nut clips, slide them through the large hole till it clips into the small hole. Now we'll take our bracket and the bolts. Start with the top one first, get it started a couple of turns, then we'll do the bottom one. We may need to tighten it up a little bit to push it in so you can get the bracket lined up just right. Okay, once we get them both started we'll leave it loose and we'll move on to the other bracket. Now we're going to install our back bracket on the driver's side. We're all the way to the back, just behind our rear door. You know it's the back one because it's the last set of holes you see in the body. We'll pry these two caps off just like we did in the front. We'll start with our top one again, just get it in a couple of turns and leave it loose. Now that both our bolts are started in the back, we'll move on to our middle bracket. Sometimes you have to have them start crooked in order to get the bolts to start. Once you start to snug them up, though, it'll straighten out. Now that we have all of our bolts started we can tighten them down a little bit. As you can see, once you start to tighten them down, it does straighten out. Now we'll take our running board and we'll just sit it on top of our brackets, like so, and we'll get our hardware started. Once our bolt is in position on the bracket, we'll move to the middle bracket and do the same. We'll lift up on it and slide the two bolts down in position. We're going to do the same on the front. With all six of our bolts now in place, we can adjust the running board as needed. As you can see, we can slide our running board forward or back. If we have it slid all the way forward we won't be able to turn our front wheels very far and the tire will make contact with the running board. If we have it slid all the way back, you can see that we don't have the best step all the way to our vehicle. What we're going to do is slide it forward until this edge here is even with that edge. If we go back to the back, you can see that it's pretty close to even with the total length of our cab of our truck before our bed starts. Not only can a running board slide forward and back, the way the brackets are made they're slotted, so you can push it in or out. If you have it all the way in, you're not going to have the most step in order to get into the vehicle. We're going to slide it all the way out, that way we'll have the most surface area for our feet to get onto in order for us to get in and out of the vehicle. We're starting at the front bracket and making sure we're holding it in position. Make sure it's pulled all the way out and we're still in line with the front edge of the cab. We'll start our nuts and we'll snug them down. With our board now attached to our brackets, we're going to finish snugging down our brackets the the vehicle all the way. Now we'll double check the tightness of everything by hand. There is no torque specification for these; you just want to make sure it's tight, but not tight to the point that you're going to break the bolt off. We'll do the brackets and the running board. With all of our nuts and bolts now tight on the driver's side, we can repeat the same process on the passenger side. That completes our installation of the DeeZee Nxt running boards with custom installation kit, part number DZ16321-16319, on our 2016 Chevrolet Colorado.