Vanstyle side bars

[Frewin]

Afternoon all
My sidebars have arrived for my maxi, and was hoping to fit them today!
Sadly they have been sent with no fitting Instructions
Are these simple enough to fit or will I need to wait for Monday to call them?
Thanks
Adam

[mark1a]

I have just fitted Vanstyle sidebars to mine - pretty straightforward.

Look under the sills, there are 4 slotted holes each side, presumably to fit OE running boards. Offer up the sidebars to the side of the van, and identify which ones go left/right and match up the slots with the lugs on the sidebars. On a couple of these, you may have to remove the rubber bungs. Keep these in case you ever remove the bars.

Find the bolts that came with the sidebars, they will have a kind of rectangular head welded on. Push these up into the slots and rotate them so that they cannot come out. Lift one end of the bars and loosely fasten the end bolt, repeat for the other 3. Easier if you have somebody helping you here. Then start doing up all 4 bolts, while they're still loose make sure they're nicely aligned and even down the side of the van. Once you're happy tighten the nuts up fully. Repeat for other side.

Only thing I did slightly different was that I wasn't really happy with the supplied nuts & washers, so I used some alternative M8 nyloc nuts instead to reduce the risk of coming undone.

Hope this helps, photos of finished job on my build thread.

[Frewin]

Thanks for the quick reply mate, will have a go just don’t want to get them wrong

[mark1a]

No problem, and good luck. Trust me, I’m no mechanic and it was easier than I thought.


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