Step-By-Step Installation Tutorial for the Westin E-Series Round Nerf Bars on a 2017 Ram 1500

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Hey everybody. It's Rob here at etrailer.com and today we're going to be taking a look at the Westin E-Series round tube steps on our 2017 RAM 1500. Now, we're going to go ahead and show you what they look like once they're installed, go over some of the features because we know that's what people want to see. But if you stick around to the end of the video, we are going to show you how to install it as well.Now, our Westin E-Series nerf bars here do come in two different variations. Here, we have the black powder-coated steel version. So it's just going to be black powder coat over a steel construction, but they also have a stainless steel polished version.

The steps are still going to be black, just like on here. But the tube itself is going to be a really high polished stainless steel.And really it's just going to come down to a personal preference. We have a dark grey truck. I think the black looks really good on here. It compliments everything, has that dark blacked-out look.

But at the same time, if you have chrome wheels and the stainless steel bumpers, I think the stainless steel steps would look really well. Again, I just really think that's a personal preference.So, tube steps are going to serve two different purposes. They are going to make it a little bit easier for us to get in and out of our truck. But at the same time, they're going to have a style to them. They're going to allow us to make our truck our own.

And again, whether we have black, stainless steel, chrome, anything like that, we can really customize our vehicle to make it our own and show off our own personal style.Our Westin E-Series here, are what I consider to be a classic tube step or a Nerf bar. They're going to be three inches in diameter. And what I do like about them, is if we look at the end here, they curve in and it ends underneath the truck. So, we have a really clean look to it. It'll curve in, come out and we have that nice straight section with our steps on it, but then it's going to curve in at the back.

So, it has a big U shape. So it really has a finished look. Some tube steps tend to just stop and there's a cap on the end. It doesn't look bad, but I think this just has more of a finished look to it. And again, it has that classic Nerf bar look to it as well.I think our Western East series look pretty nice on our truck. To me, they have that traditional classic Nerf bar style look. But one thing I really do appreciate that they did with it is the ends here. Normally, a lot of Nerf bars, they just stop and there's an end cap, but I like how it curves in and goes under the truck. It's going to do that on the front and the back. So it's a U shape and it definitely has a more finished, streamlined look to it.As far as functionality, if the steps weren't here, you can see that the threshold of the door is pretty high off the ground. Having to lift your leg that high to get in the truck can be a little bothersome, but now with our steps here, you can see it's only about half the distance. So, it makes it a lot easier for us to get in and out of our truck.Another thing a lot of people don't think about when it comes to tube steps, is they actually will save your seat quite a bit. Because if you don't have the tube steps, we end up leaning out in our seat like this so we can get our leg down far enough. And we just end up mushing this side of our seat down over time, it starts breaking down and that cushion doesn't last as long.Another thing that having tube steps definitely helps out, I'm not that tall of a person, so whenever I'm washing my truck, it takes a lot for me to reach all the way to the center. But using the steps here, I can reach almost to the center of the truck and then wash the other side that way. And we don't have to step inside the carpet and try to balance.Now you can see our steps are going to be a cab length, so they're going to run from the front, behind the front wheel well, all the way to the end of the cab here. And we are going to get a step for each door. So, since we've got a crew cab here, the people in the back still have a step, so they can get in and out with confidence and not have to worry about slipping.And each one of the steps is going to be the full width of the bar. So, we're going to get a full three-inch step pad here, and it's going to be right about 21 inches long. So, we've got a decent amount of space he