Keep or Remove Step Bar?

I have these chrome step bars on my truck and they never really bothered me before and I personally never use them I just keep them on for passengers. Now that I have my lift installed I cant really make up my mind on whether or not I want to keep them. Ive had people tell me to take em off so itll look cleaner/make it look taller and others will say to keep them because it fills out the void under the truck. I know ultimately its up to me but I just wanted to see what you guys thought.

I could either ditch em and make some money off of it
Keep em
Or plastidip them

P.S. The bars are unfortunately welded on, if they were bolt on I would have taken a side off for comparison.

Thanks

 

Ditch em'

Nice truck, btw!

 

I like them on a 1st gen but the 2nd gens look better with out the IMO. Nice truck

 

I have a silver truck to and im goin to spray bedliner on mine i hate the chrome

 

The step bars aren't all that useful as steps but they do two things well. They really help minimize door dings (like that lady who *slammed* her door into the side of my truck and only managed to put a step bar shaped dent in the edge of her door) and they cut down on rock damage from gravel roads. I say keep 'em.

 

Thanks for the feedback guys, and Tasty you make a good point!

 

If you have the $$$, I say swap them out for some sliders. They'll provide the same purpose for your passengers and it'll make your truck look better, IMO.

 

they dont look bad and if you paint em black they match your wheel set up

 

Take them off and get a set of sliders.