\next came the fitting of the step itself. This was a piece of cake once the brackets were roughly aligned. Slide the 6 no. 8mm bolts into the guide rail on the underside of the steps. WITH THE SIDE DOOR OPEN gently offer the rail up getting the inner bolts in place into the elongated slots in the the laser cut brackets ( I.use this term as opposed to the threaded fixing brackets)
Once these are in, again hand tighten only. Then slide the step back or forward until you are happy wit the position, Then shut the sliding door and start tightening up with the back bracket set to leave about 5mm between top of step and bottom of door,
Then move to the front bracket and align that. Once done the middle just needs tightening up.
job done on the N/S
Then repeat on the off side.
The only difference is that the middle bracket that I positioned was about 3/5th down the side from the front braket. Again involves removing one of the grommets and this time using the straight single threaded fixing. Again it was too short and proved problematical but was far easier than the N/S
The end result is as shown:
Overall I was pretty impressed with the end result but the following are issues:
The fixing brackets for the middle on both sides are poor and took up 1/2 of the fitting time to tweak.
The Laser cut bracket for the N/S middle is angled incorrectly (if I've fitted it correctly)
The instructions are pretty much useless
A few essentials such as the 10mm nuts were missing from my kit.
The gap between middle and rear brackets on the N/S is too long and this means that the rail flexes when 15 stone of builder (me) steps on it !! (again if I've fitted in right)
ON THE POSITIVE SIDE:
The O/S fits almost to perfection and the fixing gap is just about spot on.
The fitting sounds complicated but actually only took 2 hrs from start to finish.
The steps themselves and the laser cut brackets are really good quality (the threaded ones let them down a wee bit)
They look good when fitted (my opinion)
They stick out just enough to be used as proper steps (rather than side rails) but not too much to look obtrusive.
Overall I am happy with these for a retrofit product but they do need some tweaking and the middle O/S brackets could do with some improvement.
My opinion 7/10 - 9/10 if you get those middle brackets sorted.
Hope these are fair and constructive comments and will help others with the fitting
Tony