Video Transcript for Review of Westin Truck Tool Box - Extra-Wide Crossover Box - W78YH

Hi everyone, Steve here with Etrailer. Let's take a look at our Westin Brute Extra Wide Crossover Truck Toolbox. This is a polished aluminum finish and it has a one piece extra thick aluminum construction with this diamond tread design on it. Now, they've also put extra thickness of aluminum reinforcement at key stress points throughout their toolbox, which I personally like, I think it's a great touch and an added feature. Now again, as you can see, it has that diamond tread finish on it. Now this does use gas shocks, ensuring a smooth opening and closing of the beveled lid.

I like to start up with dimensions to make sure it's gonna fit your vehicle. Overall, we're getting 71 inches long, 27 inches deep from the front looking back and 18 inches deep as far as the depth of the toolbox. Now to me, the most critical one is that base itself. So the part that's actually down here, not the crossover part, that is 60 inches long across the front, that same 27 inches deep, but that's only 11 inches tall down there, so make sure it's gonna fit in your vehicle. Now you can't see, but on both sides you have these nice lid opener latches, and these are a push button style.

They're lockable and they're easy to reach if you have gloves on and simply push open. I do wanna throw an image up of it real quick. That of course is black. That's not the one we're looking at today. But the photo works for what I wanna show you.

Again, that's where you're gonna insert your key lock or unlock, push that in to open it. Again, we're looking at the pulse aluminum, if you want that black, that texture black, that item number for this same toolbox is W43YH sold separately. I do wanna go ahead and pop this open and then show you the inside. So again, just a simple push. It's gonna do all the work itself.

I'm just slowing it down so it doesn't jump off my box here. Now, as you can see, it's super shiny, so I apologize for that. But it is polished aluminum. You're gonna get two sets of keys, one for each side. Obviously they're key alike so you're just gonna use one. One's a backup. And as I mentioned before, you have reinforcements around the gas struts on both sides. And you do have this nice rubber seal inside of here. It's a weather seal, it's gonna basically keep out dust, dirt, and those kind of things. Now, coming from the top down, I do wanna showcase you got one, two, three, four, oh, just three, of those brackets that is made to hold a level. And from my dimensions, you could fit a pretty much a 48 inch level. That's about the biggest that I think you could probably fit in there safely. And that's a pretty cool feature. So if you're a contractor in the construction business, whatnot, that's a great option. Of course, this tray, it's gonna slide the full length back and forth. You can put tools in there. You have these dividers right here, these are all aluminum. You can take them out and make these pockets bigger or smaller. (plastic rattles) I went ahead and just threw in the hardware. You're gonna get these no drill, quick easy installation J bolts. You're gonna get two for each side. As I mentioned the two keys, and then you're gonna get two pieces of stripping here. This is foam with the double sided adhesive on the back. That's gonna be to cover your bed rails, where you're gonna put this on the truck. I'm gonna come around here. And as you can see, this fits in here fine with about an inch or two to spare. It's basically an impact toolkit, if you will. So that's gonna fit in there standing up to give you an idea of the depth. You got some pliers, a couple screwdrivers, and plenty of extra holes to put in some additional ones wherever you want. And then across the front, they've covered those bars that reach side to side for locking and locking and opening. And the only thing that is visible is where the latch is gonna come and contact with the keeper here. So opening and closing should be a breeze. I know my personal toolbox does not have these fancy additions. I just have the the naked bar, if you will. And sometimes it is a pain. If I put straps and stuff, I have mine pulled to the top and sometimes it does get jammed up and it's a little hard for me to open sometimes or lock. So this would be a great feature to have in mind that I don't have. So I do like that about that. And of course you have the pockets here for extra space as well. And then again, you got that diamond tread polished (fingers tapping) finish there. Again, folks, this is gonna be a great option for you if you're looking for something that, again, maybe a little extra wide. It should fit pretty much any full size pickup truck out there. We went over the dimensions earlier. As always, if you have any further questions or anything I'd missed on here that you wanna know about, reach out to us. We're more than happy to assist you. I'm Steven, thanks for watching. Have a great day.