Video Transcript for Review of Westin Truck Tool Box - Extra-Wide Crossover - W43YH

Hi, everyone. Steve here with etrailer. Today we're taking a look at our Westin Brute Extra-Wide Crossover Truck Toolbox in a textured black finish. Now this is constructed of extra thick, one piece aluminum, and again, it has that diamond tread texture on top of it. And they also put additional thickness of aluminum throughout at main stress points on the toolbox. So they've built this to last.

It also uses gas shocks. That's gonna ensure smooth opening and closing of the beveled lid. Now what's neat about this is the lid is self-opening. You simply push the button either on this side or the other side, which is great, especially if you have gloves on. And it's gonna open to an almost 90 degree open.

It's about four or five inches, not quite 90, so it's very impressive, you can fit a lot of stuff inside. And the way you're opening that is by these two push buttons, one on the passenger and one on the driver's side. And that's also where you can insert the keys to lock it. And I found if one side is unlocked and the other side is locked, as long as you're pushing the button on the unlocked side, you can still open the box. So if you're like me and you pretty much lock it all the time, but you just want to get out, unlock the driver's side and you can then push the button and open it while keeping the passenger side fully locked.

Now, coming from the top down, you can see there's lots of storage space. We have this yellow tray that's gonna slide back and forth the full width of the box. We have one, two, three of these brackets in here, or four, yeah, the fourth one's back there, that's for a level. So if you're a contractor, construction worker, you put your level back in there. I measure, I think the biggest you could fit in there is about a 48-inch long level.

And then on the box itself, you have different compartment dividers. These are aluminum. They'll simply slide in those slots. And then of course they give you two sets of these no-drill, J-style bolts for the hardware to install it. Along with that, you get two keys. And you get two pieces of stripping here, and these are foam with a double-sided adhesive on the back, and that's gonna go over the side of the bed rail when you install it to help protect the bed rail and give a little bit of cushion too to keep it from making noise and those kind of things. Now, inside the lid here, you have that bubbled style weather stripping, and that's gonna keep dirt, debris, dust, those kind of things out of the box. Come around here, you can see where the gas struts are. On both sides you have this protection. That's one of those spots where I talked about earlier with the extra protection in aluminum. So now gear's not gonna be snagging on these struts, not gonna be bending 'em. It's gonna protect those. You have an extra spot here for gear. Of course you have some screwdriver, plier slots in here. This is basically a full-size impact box kit here. So that kinda gives you an idea of what can fit in here. There's about an inch of space left on top of this even. And then of course you can slide that tray, again, forward, backward, wherever you need it. And then once again, those hooks in the back to hold a level. And then on the front side here, all the way across the front, they covered those locking bars with this extra box kind of style aluminum. And I love that, 'cause my toolbox I have in my truck doesn't have that. And this would prevent stuff snagging those rods, keeping it from opening, keeping it from locking or closing, keeping gear from getting stuck in there. I know mine, it's full to the brim and I got straps in there and sometimes they get snagged up in there. So that's a nice feature. And then again, once it closes, you can see that diamond tread design there. I apologize for the bright lighting here in the studio, but you get the picture. Now, I do wanna go over some dimensions before we end for the day. Outside to outside, 71 inches long, 27 inches deep, front to back, 18 inches tall or deep. And then the base dimension, which to me is more important, that's what's gonna fit in the bed of your truck, 60 inches long across the front, that same 27 deep, and this one's 11 inches tall or deep from here on down to the bed of the truck or roughly sitting above the bed of the truck. Well, folks, that's gonna wrap up our quickly together. As always, if you have any questions about this or any other products, reach out to us here at etrailer. We're more than happy to assist you. And if you would like the same toolbox but in a polished aluminum, that's Part Number W78YH. Again, that's the aluminum one. This is the black one today. I'm Steven. Thanks for watching.