25 degree or 0 degree sliders?

Is the only benefit to 0 degree sliders that you can use them as a step? What are the pros and cons of each? Please educate me...

Thanks,

 

The 0 degree will provide better door ding protection. 25 degree tucks it really close to the body and the bow of the door panel sticks out further than the slider. Only other thing it will affect is the width of the truck.

 

0 degree will hold your truck a little further away from an obstacle such as a tree. I have seen instances where if the slider were lower profile body damaged likely would have occurred. Plus they make a nice step

 

10 is perfect. BAMF makes it in a 10

 

Since most shops fab them on a per-order basis, I wonder if other shops would also be willing to do 10-degree sets for a small fee. I was actually thinking about calling RCI to ask them exactly that earlier this evening, but never got around to it.

 

Mobtown makes theirs at 20* and it sticks out 2" past the outer most crowned portion of the door. They're also extremely beefy if you intended to beat them up.

 

I was looking at the CaliRaisedLED ones as they are close to me. I’m trying to decide which one to go with...

 

I welded mine on at 20°. It doesn’t really look like it in the pics, but they stick out 2” further than the door.

 

I use the angled BAMF sliders as steps, so does my wife, just add grip tape

 

Since you are local come on by the shop and we can show them to you in person so you can see how they are different! We always have sets at the shop that you can take a look at. And most likely a truck will be there with a set of our sliders installed on it.

 

Bumping up this old thread rather than starting a new one. Did a search and cannot find an answer to this question. Note I am new to off-roading.

On the 0 degree vs. 10-25 degree angle question, I thouight part of the idea of having some degree of angle was so that if your sliders came down on top of a rock or other obstacle, that the angle would help "slide" the truck off the ostacle vs. potentially getting stuck on top of it, or worse, sliding it in the wrong the direction?

Is that an advantage that 10-25 degrees has over 0 degree? Or am I missing something here as I do my research?

 

You’re right but a lot of people use them for door ding protection and looks more than rock crawling.

 

We went with RCI 5 degree sliders.

Two reasons.

1. Makes a step for the wife and dogs easier to get in.
2. Keeps me "kind of honest" when tackling something that may hit the body work.

Third Benefit, if I get into a situation where I KNOW I am going to "hit" I can rely on the "wider" angle to push/bump the truck and not concern myself with door panel/rear bed issues.

We like the Step functionality of the "flatter" sliders. I haven't encountered a situation where being "tucked" closer to the body would help us. There are certainly times when it would work but the benefits of the "step" works for us.


If I was doing a "pure" rock crawling/offroad build I would definitely suck them up as close as I could to the body.