I have an 03' F250 with the Ford factory tubular steps and found that the recent cold weather and my hunting excursions with many miles of gravel have broke the front out of every black plastic cover for the mounting brackets! I now have 6 broken bracket covers that look like crap. I looked at the step and see that there are two bolts per step holding the step to each bracket. I figured if I pull these bolts I can get the covers off, unfortunatly Ford does not sell just the covers! So I am thinking of pulling the covers off and painting the brackets with a rubberized undercoating. I am wonder if others have had this problem and what you've done to fix it!

It's crappy ford doesn't sell the covers, just because it's an 03' doesn't mean it needs to look like a farm truck! No offence to any farmers, it's just ND farm trucks get used hard and put away wet for the most part. Usually it's a toss up between the Rig workers and the farmers on who can trash a truck the quickest, lol!

Thanks for any and all help!

 

I am going to be looking for a couple covers for an 05, it's a bit discouraging to think I won't be able to find replacements. Looks like a trip to the junk yard is in my future.

 

I find it hard to believe I'm the only one with this problem! I'm willing to bet there are a lot of broken ones that people haven't even noticed, but maybe I'm the only one that has aggressive tires that throw rocks and drives gravel in cold weather, the rest of you must have a buch of trailer queens........................... ha ha ha ha.

Nobody take that offensively, I'm just poken fun since I can't get a response.

 

Can you just have the metal brackets sprayed with Rhino Liner or something similar? That will protect them and maybe make them look better?

 

Thats exactly what I was gonna do. The brackets aren't the prettiest things I've ever seen!