N-Fab Nerf Bars Nice at First but Watch OUT!

And boom goes the dynamite.

 

I used bedliner spray on my sliders (prepped, 2 coats primer, 4-5 coats of Rustoleum bedliner) and after a single summer the paint job looked like swiss cheese. And now the rust is coming. I would definitely recommend going with a professionally applied product.

 

textured ftw

 

Don't be afraid. Use names. Use quotes.

I don't have NFABs and couldn't care less about defending them, but that doesn't change what I said and why.

We can agree to disagree, babe.

 

In that case, the pay for shipping not being mentioned is misleading, but fair for a company who ships large items like that and will easily spend their materials cost over again by replacing and shipping on their dime.

It's cheaper for a buyer to fix it themselves, either way.

 

If the process for warranty repair is same or exceeds the price of the item then I would have to agree, warranty is useless.

 

Agreed.

They should probably have a way for someone local to consumers do the warranty work that way the consumer is not stuck paying for shipping because the product didn't hold up. Personally I wouldn't mind paying for a shipping if it was a few dollars for warranty work. I have before on a leather phone case. But the $125 or so dollars each way is excessive.

 

They wouldn't have to ship things over and over if they made a quality product.

 

Warranty is definitely useless.

Big company like N-Fab gets discounted shipping rates (If they say they don't, they're liars.) probably costs them about $30-$40 to ship a set, if not less.

I've shipped a set or two, each time shipping was in the $70+ range.

So you'd be sitting right at $140 + time to find a box, packing supplies to get them right, and the drive to USPS/Fedex/UPS to get quotes for cheapest way.

As for paying labor for install.. it's maybe 6-8 bolts on each side. No way in hell i'd pay someone to install them.

x2 on refinishing them yourself with bedliner, or sand them down and repaint. A decent powdercoat on them should be less than $150 (paid $200 for my huge front plate bumper).

 

I wouldn't think it's that much to ship, but if anybody wants to run their NFABs down to the UPS Store for a quote and see what the real cost to ship is - that'd be great.

I won't hold my breath though. Oversized packages with UPS are incredibly expensive to ship, so $125 might really might not be that obscene.

 

I'm not disagreeing the paint sucks, but soaking down a piece of steel that's full of rock chips and scratches every week to wash it will take a toll on anything made of steel and coated. Steel doesn't like getting wet, when it does - it rusts.

Chips in coating allow water to get in and underneath and rust to form, that's how it all works. That's my point, OP has blame here as well. He complains he has to pay someone to uninstall and reinstall them, which reads more as unwilling or incapable of making a low cost fix on his own dime and so his only recourse is to demand NFAB spend more money than his steps are worth to make him happy.

Then what? 2 years later with the same consistently wet conditions, he gets the same problem and expects the same treatment?

Can't do business like that.

Customers shouldn't have to deal with it either, but as it goes, you either choose to buy a product or you don't. There has to be a little bending on both sides, OP could have it fixed for literally $20 and doesn't want to or can't.

 

I'm not sure him washing them weekly is a problem. If that was the case then my truck would be a rust bucket after one summer. A quality paint job shouldn't rust to death under it.

Although I like the suggestions of having them Line-Xed. Better than paint and cheaper than screwing with N Fab any more.

 

Take a bunch of rocks and screws and put them in a bag, then pound your hood with it and make a bunch of paint damage. Then wash it every week and report back.

You can't draw such a straight line and compare low cost, aftermarket steel steps and their paint quality to an automotive assembly line paint quality spraying billions of dollars worth of product through hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment on a constant basis.

 

mind blown

 

Mind blown-er.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rust-under-paint.351149/

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rust-coming-through-white-paint-around-windows.222810/

Scratches to bare steel make rust, doesn't have anything to do with paint quality - bare steel has no paint.

 

I don't know if powdercoating will help you out much either. I got some rock sliders from BAMF and installed them this fall and they're already showing large patches of rust. I haven't scratched them up or anything so the road salt/brine is penetrating the powdercoat, or maybe they just weren't coated well. I don't have much experience in that area so I can't say. There's nothing but rave reviews on here for them so maybe that's just the way these things are. I even rubbed fluid film all over them with a rag 2 months ago after I noticed the first small patch but it's spread very noticeably since then.

I'm not excited about it but I'm going to get under there this spring with a wire wheel, sandpaper, POR-15, and monstaliner. Then I'll probably have to repeat the process every couple years. I hate rust.

 

Throw some some rust oleum paint on them and put up a review of your experience. Sucks when corporations jerk around customers. Support small business, they usually have better service as they actually care about returning customers. Good luck man

 

mine lastest about 3 months, large sections of paint coming off, rusting everywhere, a couple emails to Amazon where i bought them, and they said keep them and gave me a full refund, no more nfab products for me,

 

They come off easy. Take em to a powdercoater and get them done nice. probably 100 to get them done.