I'm considering replacing my Tubular Assist Steps with the U-Steps. Anyone with U-Steps have any comments?

- Bill

I'm considering replacing my Tubular Assist Steps with the U-Steps. Anyone with U-Steps have any comments?

- Bill

I love my U steps. Except for the rear ones. They are not aligned back enough to allow your foot to naturally fall into it. When putting "junior" in the back and getting down backwards, my foot does not "find" the step too easily.

But now I have not looked below to see if they can be adjusted. I just noticed this yesterday while in some not so great pair of dress shoes...
This might be a concern for short women like myself that OCCASIONALLY wear nicer shoes than boots or sneakers.

~amy

~amy
Reality is merely a crutch for those with a broken imagination.~anon.

Cool! A chick with a hummer. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

- Bill

She's married with kid, let's move on.

Based on my extensive one day off-roads experience, tube steps are not for off-roads use, they wipe out several imporant inches from the bottom clearance. You got to go with removable U-Steps. Anyone know why it is called "U" step? Tube steps look better and more substantial, I'll stay with them; the only problem will be that off-roads rough-necks will know you don't go off-roads. U-Steps do not match the Hummer styling. How about those automatic retractable steps coming out. Those would be neat.

I removed my brush guard and U-steps. Here are a few reasons why my u-steps are in storage:

(1) The steps make the H2 appear lower to the ground.
(2) I go off-road about two to three times per month and I didn't want to hassle with install/removal.
(3) The steps lend a "cluttered" appearance to the vehicle's profile.
(4) Getting out of the H2 was more difficult with the steps (for both myself and my wife) due to placement of foot and having to contort your body.

Why removed the brush guard?

MAC:

I removed the brush guard because I felt it was overkill and made for a cluttered look. I've owned 4 x 4s my entire driving-age life and most of my trail comrades don't use brush guards either. You'll see few trail-bound trucks and Jeeps with brush guards and even less desert runners with them [although they do use pre-runner bars]. I think the brush guards were carried-over from Land Rovers in the old safari and outback/brush journeys.

I do like the way you have your driving lights mounted in your Album Photo; that may be something that I copy.

My H2 came with a moon roof, which I also didn't want, but I didn't care to place a special order and wait. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[This message was edited by SJ on November 05, 2002 at 12:53 PM.]

Bill,
You really will be compromising the offroading clearance. I wonder if the bars will bend dramatically if the full or partial weight of the H2 lands upon them? I also wonder how they'll react to sliding over rocks?

I did not know that, I thought for sure one needs brush guard to protect the front from brush, trees, rocks, lions and tigers and sorts. Sounds like a look issue for you. I'll keep my eyes open for brush guards on 4x4s in the coming days. Thanks.

I currently have the Tubular Side Steps for which I was replacing with U-Steps.

Are you saying that the U-Steps are lower than the Tubular Side Steps?

- Bill

Mac wrote:"She's married with kid, let's move on."

What's up with that comment???

or is this a "man-forum" only...????

~amy
Reality is merely a crutch for those with a broken imagination.~anon.

MAC is married with kids, and love to see his wife driving Hummer without him, never seen a woman wash car, may have fantasied it but will not admit. Mac's wife sometimes pretends she's coming to help just when it is done. More girls everywhere the better. Mac's country club started accepting women after 10 years of lawsuits and lost, the sky did not fall. Mac likes women, honestly and truely.

Cool MAC...

Just wanted to be sure you weren't starting the forum off on the wrong foot as far as women goes...

I was just a little taken back by your tone and that my being here was "distracting" to the admirer of a female H2er and the general topic on hand.

~amy

~amy
Reality is merely a crutch for those with a broken imagination.~anon.

http://www.CelestialBath.com

You are the main attraction.

Ooops. I said it with all the solid gold good intention and sincerity, but after I turned it off and walked away, I thought, maybe Amy'll get it wrong again, I rush back to explain it again. Enough said, I am a nice guy, my wife is my supreme commander.

MAC we are COOL man...

no need to apologize. I just read the post before my last dose of Bi-polar meds...

all is well and I know what it is like to be the supreme commander of the house...hee hee....

~amy

~amy
Reality is merely a crutch for those with a broken imagination.~anon.

http://www.CelestialBath.com

MAC:
May see how you mounted your lights (as SJ mentions)?
The pics have not been transferred from the "old" album to this new forum's photo page.
Thanks. JCJ

can we see pics of hummergirl washing here h2 just so i know how to do mine of course [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

sorry guys but the daisy-duke car wash is closed until spring...a little chilly for a hand wash this week!!!

~amy

~amy
Reality is merely a crutch for those with a broken imagination.~anon.

http://www.CelestialBath.com