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Originally Posted by j-man
i kept mine on my 2000 for several reasons but the main one is this: I'm in baja a lot and anyone who's driven in baja (offroad) knows that 100's of miles of baja roads = sand/rock blasting to your paint. Even tho i have the painted flares (which keep some rocks inside the wheel wells), the running boards keep all of the kicked up rocks off the rocker panels/doors. So yes, they save my paint and i like em. - so there ;-)
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Good point, I left mine on up until this point cause the private road that leads to my secluded lake was cut through the tough canadian shield and is full of large rocks and thin gravel. I just had new paint applied within the last 10months so they have saved my paint from annoying stone chips. Me and and my friend took his 99' Taco (3.5 Old Man Emu Lift) out to my cabin and did some serious wilderness trails. 1 Month later I returned with my 4Runner and did the same exact trail...I was really thinking i'd be touching ground with the running-boards on...but I didnt bottom out once. Just like the comment @ sonoransteel "System 7 installed even with running boards". Really to each his own, I believe they have saved my paint...but for next season I have 22inch Eagle's to toss on..so I will be saying good-bye to the running boards then.