Mall Rated Chief Slider Review, vs Rocky Road Rock Sliders, Jeep Grand Cherokee, WK2, Offroad
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024
- So i got Chief Products Rock Sliders for my WK2 this past year. Worst accessory i've ever bought. Every trail ride added more dents to these weak sliders. Culminating with me using the slider to pivot on a rock, something i've done dozens of times with my RRO sliders, and it utterly destroyed them.
In an email exchange with CP's engineer team, they basically said i should be easier on the sliders. They also said they couldn't make their sliders any heavier as it would put the vehicle "over the GVWR"....if 60 lbs put it over GVW...then i guess i need to lose some weight in order to legally drive this thing, lol.
This video is NOT sponsored by Rocky Road, i am just a big fan of their products, obviously as i bought their sliders on top of having spent ridiculous price for Chief's terrible product.
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Thanks for this video! I have a 2020 Cherokee Trailhawk and I am going to add RRO sliders next and this video helped me make my decision!
Thanks for this video
@@rictor8252 its a video i wished I'd seen before i wasted $1,400!
Shoulda done a floor jack test as well... but that sledge hammer test was very telling. I wouldn't call anything "very durable and rugged" in the offroading world if it couldn't take a light hit with a sledge or even used with a floor jack without obvious damage and deformation.
Chief. No bueno
I've taken more than a couple of hits on my 2018 WK2 Trailawk on Chief Products rock sliders and they've held up beautifully. A few scuffs but nothing like that. Either Chief Products changed their manufacturing process to use inferior material or else I'd suggest these could possibly be Chinese knock-offs. Were they shipped directly from Chief or via a reseller? As for being over GVM, that's a massive fine in 'Straya that's regularly enforced on private vehicles so I get their concern. But it's not really a big deal in N.A., considering the average built-up JL or JT is at least 500 pounds over GVWR on any given day. Their off-road laws are incredibly restrictive (spacers are illegal, tyres cannot stick out past fender flares, 35s are considered massive, several states don't allow 37s or bigger, etc), yet they can do far more with far less. Aussie tracks are infinitely more challenging than what we have in the U.S. and they have vehicles we'll never see here (LC 70 series, Hilux, Patrol, D-Max, etc).
@@W2IRT Purchased directly from Chief's website, shipped from their US warehouse. As to the GVW...its curb weight from the factory is around 5100 lbs, ots GVW is atleast 6200 lbs, you are telling me 60 lbs bridges that 1,000 lb gap? Also, if 60 lbs truly puts it over, then how can an adult legally drive one completely empty, as most adults weigh more than 60 lbs. That whole line is hogwash. Unless AU has much lower weight ratings.
I'd also venture to guess that your couple hits weren't really hard hits, but likely mere touches. This isn't the only Chief product i've seen dent/bent very easily. The fact they refuse to answer if their rails can survive being used as a jack point 100% says it all, because the answer is no, and they would lose sales if they published that.
And, no offense, but most people with WK2s honestly think easy trails they've done are some form of extreme offroading when really its just the shallow end of the kiddie pool.
Again, i'm comparing the same punishment i put my RRO sliders through for 5 years on my KL (only 500 lbs lighter than WK2), the Chief just don't survive, didn't even last 6 months before the one side was completely collapsed.
Chief Products are definitely not Chinese knockoffs, they are in fact manufactured in Malaysia. Lol
@@6MonkeysOffroad What I meant was maybe the ones he got were not actually Chief, but counterfeit items sold as Chief. I regularly jack my Grand Cherokee up on my Chief Products sliders and have banged them on rocks on various Badge of Honor trails over the years with nothing more than some scuffs and scrapes along the bottom. Then again, I don't deliberately pivot off rocks on them either.
@@FearlessTrailhawk No, I've hit 'em good the first couple years I owned it, including Crawler Ridge and Crawl Daddy at Rausch Creek (Blue and Red Badge of Honor trails), and countless blues there and AOAA. But I don't use them to pivot on rocks, I'll grant you that. I always jacked up my 'Hawk on the sliders and used jack stands on 'em as well.
Fully-loaded with 2 adults and our camping and recovery gear, full fuel, full water, and full bladder, front and bottom armor, Chief rails, Warn 10,000# winch and I'm at 6050-6100# on 265/65R18 Wildpeaks. I wheeled the absolute hell out of it before I got my Rubicon earlier this year. Now it's just a badass mall crawler that will soon be sold. But my experience with Chief's rock rails is the exact opposite from yours.
Yikes! $1500 for those running boards made of tin? Rocky Road is 30 min from me. Good folks there.
@@shinhochulp Yep.
I ran the RRO sliders and was disappointed because it didn't protect the body seam/ pinch weld anywhere along the rocker, so it just smashed every thing up. It looks like a massacre under there now. They are solid elsewhere and good at taking the side hits but nothing protecting my rocker seam from a lot of damage taking hits underneath.
Thats odd, they have protected the seam on my KL perfectly through 5 years of absolute hell, and appear to have the same protection on the WK2. Maybe i'm doing it wrong? 🤷
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Looks like they did their job?
@@ahdepdawg it would have been cheaper to replace the door in that case since they only worked the one time. For $1,400, they better be able to take more than one Rock before they absolutely fall apart. Their competitors can for half the price.
Wow the chief sliders are garbage.
@@Roblet217 Every trail ride i added another dent or flat spot. Made two sales for RRO by the end of the week in Colorado.