Mobtown Offroad Aluminum Rock Slider Group Buy

I would definitely be in for a set. Just have to save up some mod money first.

 

I agree. It's definelty for people who are already running a heavy setup, hard topper, RRT, bumpers, gear, etc. the weight saving is gold to that market.

Sliders function as a step 95% of the time.

 

Yeah, I’m going to have a camper on the back, so I’m looking to cut weight wherever else I can... but my wife is 5’ and has a hard time getting up in the truck. I’ll keep watching this one, but if Mobtown turns it off I’ll switch to steel and find somewhere else to drop some weight. Agree that it’s mostly a step, but better to have it and not need it.

 

I am in the exact same boat. I want these. I would buy aluminum sliders. And I cast my vote on that before I knew the prices of them.

 

In their defense, it says on the first page 25%-30% more than steel so they’re not too far off that.

 

I think it's closer to 75% more.

 

Not only is aluminum more, we had to go up in tube size and plate thickness, and they take a crap load longer to weld.

 

For my DCLB:
Aluminum with Kickouts and Fill Plates: $1,450
Bolt on: $925 diff of 36.21%
Weld on: $625 diff of 56.90%

Without the kickouts or fill plates: $1,250 for AL
Bolt on: $749 diff of 40.08%
Weld on: $449 diff of 64.08%

This is before shipping though.

 

Can’t do weld on aluminum sliders. Not possible to weld aluminum to a steel chassis.

 

I am in for a set.
3rd Gen ACLB 20 degree w/ fill plates and powder coat

 

I heavily encourage you to get rock sliders with a kick out in the PNW. They've saved me several times from bashing my rear quarter panel into a tree because of how tight the trails are here. Personally, i'm going with steel for all things underneath and aluminum for front/rear bumpers in the future to offset the weight.

 

I'm in for a set. 2018 DCSB, Fill Plates, Kickouts, Powdercoat (possible to do wrinkle black for "step" texture?), 0°

For those already ordered, why is everyone buying 0°?

 

My bet is that most people are using these as “mostly steps with the ability to mitigate an oh-shit moment”. If you were planning to use sliders a lot, you’d spend the weight to get steel. If they’re mostly for use as steps, 0 degree is the right choice.

 

Good point, order changed.

 

gen 2 dcsb 0°, filled plated, kick out and powder coated please

 

Interesting 190 votes for aluminum sliders (including mine, ironically) but only 6 confirmed. I'm thinking about it.

 

Its really not surprising. People have trouble affording steel sliders. Tack on 40% to the price and it's even further out of reach.

 

Every time the thread gets bumped someone signs on. Just a question of whether Mobtown gets bored before we get enough takers

 

IMHO I don’t think this is a viable product. It’s just too expensive. I wish we could figure out a way to do it more affordability, but we haven’t been able to. We kinda guessed this would be the case before we designed them, but so many ppl asked that we felt compelled to do it anyway.