Westin Sure-Grip Running Boards w/ Custom Installation Kit - 6" Wide - Brushed Aluminum

Video Transcript for Westin Sure-Grip Running Boards Installation - 2013 Toyota Highlander

Today on our 2013 Toyota Highlander we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the Westin sure grip 6 inch wide running boards with custom installation kit. The part number is 27-6120-1855. Here's what our running boards are going to look like installed. As you can see this is going to be a very nice clean look. These running boards I think are some of the closest after market running boards to what factory running boards are. They're going to be a 6 foot long board, 6 inches wide and they've got a textured grip strip here which is 4 and a half inches wide.

This is going to give us superior footing whether it's rain, snow, mud, ice. We shouldn't have any issues getting in and out of the vehicle. Now on the outside here we've got a brushed nickel finish, really accents a lot of the alloy wheels now that are on cars or the the trim on the side. It really accents that nicely. We've got our caps on either end there to really clean up the look and prevent any kind of hanging on clothing or anything like that. It'll give us nice wide area to step so it'll really make getting in and out the vehicle much easier. Then when we get to our destination they don't stick so far that you can't step over if you choose or if you need to they'll be there to allow you out safely.

Also here in the back door you can see it's going to come back plenty far enough, still gives us plenty of room so if we need it to get in and out we'll have that available. Now this application requires no drilling whatsoever. We're going to use pre-existing holes underneath the vehicle and the provided hardware to attach it. Which makes it really, really nice. Now if you'd like to add a bit of safety for night time situations and you want to get your running board even closer to that factory look, we do have a light kit available that you mount right on the board. That part number is 27-6000. Now the first thing we need to for our installation is get the black appearance strip put into position.

It's going to fit right in a groove that runs along the bottom side of the running board here. All the way across. Now we didn't have any luck trying to snap it in. We recommend doing is using a small Phillips screw driver, you're going to take out the 3 screws. We've got 2 here in the bottom and then one that's a little bit more on the side there.

Get those popped out. Set those aside then just slide that right off the end there. You can see the strip there it's going to have that rounded edge. It's going to run the full length and we're going to slide that right into that track we saw. We just need to that slide into position for now. We can adjust that forward and back once we get it about closer to fully installed. Then the caps going to go back on. There's a little hook right here on this edge that'll need to go around the edge of the running board so it'll kind of be underneath our strip there. We'll just bring it on in. Slide it in til it stops, our 3 holes will be lined back up and we can replace our screws. All right that'll take care of the pre assembly of the running board. Let's get our brackets installed on the vehicle and we'll add this to it later. Now for the rear we're going to use one of the half inch bolt style nut plates here. We also need to take our three eighths by inch and three quarter bolt and we're going to thread it through one of the nut plates just til it comes down and stops like that. These are going to be our rear attachment points. We'll get those put into position. Now we're going to grab our rear bracket. It's going to be the one that has the larger flange that goes up top. You can see we want the downward leg to be on the left hand side of that. Just like that. Nut plate will go through. You need a flat washer, lock washer and nut on this side. That needs to go just underneath where this cap is. We'll pull that down and out of the way. We pass that up and in. Then just gently tighten it down til it's about hang tight. We're good for now. Now we also want to pull down the rubber cap here a little bit further towards the inside. Now keep in mind we're just in front of the rear tire here. It's going to be the first hole that's on the side frame where the side rail here and then directly in from that and we'll find that larger oblong hole. That's where we're going to put our half inch nut plate. Sit it in just like that. Now our rear bracket comes in and now this needs to be facing towards the front of the vehicle, the arms that stick out need to be facing towards the front and the passenger bracket is the smaller of the two. Place that up on there. You need a flat washer and lock washer and we'll also thread on our hex nut. Just like that. Now for the point where the two connect we're going to take our three eighths bolt and flat washer, pass that through both brackets there and we'll add on another flat washer then lock washer and nut. Now we're going to leave this a little bit loose here but this one is very tough to get to after the fact. It's a good idea to go ahead and get that torqued down now. You'll find the appropriate torque specifications listed in your instructions, just follow along with those to make sure you have the appropriate tension on all your bolts. Let's move to the front and get that bracket in place. Now here in the front again we're going to come back from the tire and it's going to be the very first hole. There's going to be a little plug in it, take that plug out. Then we want to go in about eight inches and forward about four inches and we've got another one right here. For the attachment point closer to the middle of the vehicle we'll use another three eighths bolt with a nut plat on it, like that. Now for the forward attachment point, we've got our support bracket we need to take one of the three quarter inch three eighths bolts. You want a flat washer on there, serrated lock washer on there. It's going to go right up through and another one of our nut plates, we just want to very gently or lightly start, like that. That's going to pass up in that hole. Just to make it easier to kind of hold up, I'm going to put my bolt in the middle here first. Just like before it's going to be the inch and three quarter by three eighths bolt with a flat washer. Then on the back side it'll be a flat washer, lock washer and nut. Bring the rear portion of our bracket up into its place and it gets the same hardware. Just like before this bolt again is going to be pretty impossible to get to after the running board's in place. We want to get it torqued down. Now we've got our five sixteenths square head bolts. We need to slide two of those in our inside track here and two of them on the outside track. Get them positioned just near the end of the board there. Now we're ready to raise it up into position. As we do it can be a challenge with this strip on here. You kind of need to compress it, kind of roll the board down into position. But it certainly makes it look very nice once it's on there. Certainly recommend using it. We just need to line those bolts up with the slots in our bracket there, move them down through like that. Then we'll loosely install the five sixteenths flat washer and nylon lock nut. That'll keep our board from coming off there for any reason. We'll be able to adjust it forward and back to get it right where we want it. You see I just kind of curl that strip outward. Bring it down around that bolt there. Just make sure we get our board even on both sides. Once we do we'll start torquing down all of our bolts. Now you just want to repeat that exact same process for the other side, you're running boards will be ready for use. With everything torqued down properly that's going to complete our installation of the Westin sure grip running boards part number 27-6120-1855 on our 2013 Toyota Highlander.