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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:07 pm    Post subject: Drive without the running boards? Recomended? Reply with quote

Ok so my running bored are rotten and gross and flex, whats worse is people keep using em as sidesteps to enter the car! Thoughy my heater hannels are fine externally tho rusty inside acirding to my inspection camera :/ id like to remove en all together and psint the outside of heater channels too, is that ok for the car? Cheers
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:19 pm    Post subject: . Reply with quote

I think of the running boards strictly as an ornament, giving the aesthetics of the side lines continuity from the front to the back. The Type 1 looks finished with the running board in place, but there is more than one way to do anything.
I say, leave it off if that suits you.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok asesome and any bolt holes showing ill just fill with bondo them and respray em thanks
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:44 pm    Post subject: Re: . Reply with quote

ZENVWDRIVER wrote:
I think of the running boards strictly as an ornament, giving the aesthetics of the side lines continuity from the front to the back. The Type 1 looks finished with the running board in place, but there is more than one way to do anything.
I say, leave it off if that suits you.


The rear fender of your beetle takes enough stone/rock damage kicked back from the front tire with running boards in place. Remove it and you'll be getting many more chips out of your paint.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please do this- remove one board- then jack up that side of the car. Lay on the ground and look up. The reveal of door seal and door bottom, the bottom edge of the rear quarter panel and the leading 2' of the rear fenders will all be exposed. If they are in good shape now- just wait a couple seasons after pummeling them. Yes, I am pro-running board, and I vote.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 5:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have seen running boards removed and sheet metal used to cover the heater channel. A couple of those folks also welded/body filled the holes in the fender used to mount the running boards. I also bought a VW once with check plate aluminum running boards. They were stiff enough to use as steps to enter the car. The man I bought the car from has fabricated them very nicely.

It is advisable to use gravel deflector shields on both front and rear fenders to keep from beating the paint off them.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ill take em. Off and make a shield now Smile cheers Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DON'T Bondo over the holes! You may want to put running boards back on once you discover what happens when running without them.

If cash is a problem, buy a cheap set of mexican boards. They'll be OK for a while.

Keep in mind your running boards are the way they are now because of the job they do! All that stuff beating them to death so they rust away will be beating on the rest of the car if you remove them.

So think of the running boards as a sacrificial part that you need to throw away every 10 years or so. It proects the rest of the car. Remove them and you will be throwing away doors, quarter panels, rear fenders....
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beetles without running boards are like chicks with beards, just wrong!
Buy a cheap set new or 2nd hand and paint them before putting them on. They will last for years! Better to educate your buddies that the boards are not for stepping on.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, we tried...
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My baja don't need no steenking runnning boards
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ahhok true they can stay ill grund rust off em and re inforce em with steel Smile till i can afford new onss
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