Ah crap. That stinks.

 

Feels like a lifetime ago... I just looked up my old threads on this happening on my 09. What was I, about 17 then?

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...ng-at-12k.html

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...nty-issue.html

and one more for good measure.... and I keep buying em'!! LOLOL

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...-to-fight.html

 

Good luck Rodney. I doubt the battle will be any easier. Although, they did replace my rear outer wheels with no fuss, which surprised me. Of course a year and a half later the new ones did the same thing. I've decided that when my running boards get too ugly I will take them off, strip them and deliver them to the local LineX dealer. Of course my truck is 5 years old not 1.

 

Scott, I begged every Linex and RhinoLiner dealer within 250 miles to do mine when they were new. Every one ether blew me off or told me no flat out. I even called all the dealers in FL when were getting ready for Disney last Nov. Nope from them too...

 

Really? Weird.

Did they give you a reason why they wouldn't do it?

 

They didn't want to go over the plastic inserts as they felt it would leave air voids where they met the metal and cause failures. They also didn't want to remove the plastic inserts first as the thickness of the spray coating wouldn't allow them to seat back in. They also worried they would break taking them out and weren't' sure they could be bought separately. I saw a bunch of guys who had it done in the 17 section back then. I guess I just live in an area where dealers won't do anything other than standard fair.

 

While get that to an extent as far as warranty goes, it seems like a lame excuse. If I ever do it I will strip the plastic myself, knowing it may need a little modding on reinstall. Then again, I don't have the chrome package so I just have 2 plastic steps per side, and that would be a whole lot easier to deal with than the style you have.

 

Scott, I'm with you. I think the whole thing stinks as I've seen it done successfully so many times before. Still irritated that mine aren't coated. If you find a source, I'll send mine down to be done too...

 

Corrosion sucks. Hopefully they'll fix you up.
Have the chrome ones on my 12, couldn't avoid them with other options i wanted. Haven't looked very close, but they never look clean anymore, and the chrome is all scratched to hell from getting in with muddy boots....

 

Well, going to head to the dealer this morning. I hope it's not like my seat and something they won't address. Not the end of the world. It just fits into the category of things that shouldn't be.

 

Rodney, which running boards do you have...the 5" or 6" wide variety? Or power?

 

The 6". I should have known better after my 2009 with the 6" boards. The way the plastic inserts set allows salt to be trapped underneath. That is why I went with the 5" ones on my 2012. The long single pad didn't leave the gaps that the 6" does with it's individual pads. For 2017, I wanted the extended boards so I made the mistake of going back to the 6" variety. Ah well.

 

Hmm. My 2017 dually had the 5" chrome boards and they didn't seem to like winter as well as the 6" I have on this 2017 F-250. Overall, a bad design which are hard to clean and easy to corrode. The power steps shouldn't have this problem. Good luck with the dealer helping you out...

 

I'm not going to hold my breath! LOL. The power steps have their own issues after a few years of ownership so I didn't go that route. It might have been better than the alternative though. If these don't get warrantied, maybe I'll do the AMP steps after the fact. What I'd really prefer is to get my existing steps Linex coated like Scott and I were talking about. Not only would it stop and cover the chrome peeling, I'm not a huge fan of chrome on running boards anyways and would like them covered for aesthetic reasons as well.

 

Do they still offer the poly ones from the factory.... I have been happy with the ones on my 2012.
maybe wouldn't look right ??