Reviews for Go Rhino DSS4516T Dominator DSS Rock Sliders for 20-22 Jeep Gladiator JT

They don't stick out very far

The look

As others have said, do not follow the instructions. I am lucky I read the other reviews first. I pre threaded the bolts to clear out excess powder coat then loosely assembled everything prior to mounting them on the Jeep. Everything went on easily when I did that and they look great.

Bit of a pain in the butt to install. What I would recommend is get two jackstands and balance the sliders with the jackstands. Then what you can do is use two small woodworking clamps and hold the pieces that go into the sliders clamped up against the opening. This made it very easy to install. I would install the center first then the front and rear also the front and rear brackets are different and it’s very unclear which one fits well just took a bit of troubleshooting. Overall me and a buddy installed it in about three hours

The included instructions are garbage, and the packaging is peculiar. The front and rear brackets, and the driver and passenger side center brackets are different, but the packaging and instructions provide no clue which is which. Worse, the brackets come in two packages of three each, but oddly each package contains one center bracket and two of EITHER the front or rear brackets. All of this needlessly detracts from what is otherwise a good product, decently priced (particularly with the recent sale price) and is really pretty easy to install once you see through the stupidity. (1) As noted above, and in online videos, install the brackets loosely to the step on a bench, and then mount to truck, (2) the install videos online do not mention or use the included spacers. If you use the spacers in the front bracket, and omit (and user the shorter hex head screw) in the rear bracket, the steps in my view better follow the line of the truck, (3) as others said, run the screws through the brackets before install, but send in from the rear of the nut mounted to the bracket as I suspect that the weld may distort the threads, (4) the front brackets are the two that extend further from the mounting hole, (5) the center brackets for each side is the one with the mounting screws toward the front of vehicle. Hope this helps.

Installing them was pretty frustrating, took much longer than i thought. Once they are on they look good and seem well built. These have thin profile and run along the bottom of the rocker so they are not super noticeable from the side.

Look great and feel solid. I followed the instructions for the passenger side and it was a giant pain to install. For the driver side, I installed the sliders and side brackets first leaving them loose enough to slide and then bolted them to the frame. I then installed the flange nuts to finger tight, loosened the frame bolts, and tightened the flange bolts. I then used an impact wrench to tighten the frame bolts and then tighten the bolts attached to the sliding brackets. Sounds convoluted, but it was WAY easier then trying to install the sliding brackets onto the braces when they were already on the gladiator. One other tip, make sure you run one of the bolts through the sliding bracket bolt holes before installing them into the step. Some of them hand paint inside the nut and they were difficult to get the bolt going, much easier to do when you have it in hand. All in all, I like the product, but it could be easier to install.

Notice a trend? Yes the install instructions are terrible, but they look amazing and you sacrifice very little ground clearance with them.

This builds onto what Mike said as a previous review(thank the gods I saw his review and was able to ponder it beforehand).

What I did was assembled each rock slider completely on the ground and ensured that the brackets were loose enough to where I could adjust them on the fly when mounting to the body. Even doing this is a pain because I felt like I needed an extra set of hands to get the bolts threaded. PRO-TIP: pre-thread all 6 brackets before inserting them into the rock sliders themselves.

Once they were fully assembled, I mounted the whole thing to the frame, fastened the smaller bolts through the pinch points on the frame, and then went back through and tightened everything.

The Rock Sliders look great once installed. However the brackets were not drilled correctly requiring modification, and the rails themselves required 2 people and a local shop over 2 hours to install due to the sliding nut plates inside the rails and the fact that they needed to be pushed down and or pulled up by one person as the other attempted to get the bolts through the brackets into the rails and into the nut plates. The shop I went to stated they have installed several Go Rhino products before and have never had the amount of trouble they had installing these.

I have been a Jeep Technician since 1994. 12 of those at a dealership as a Master Technician. These are the worst quality steps/sliders that I have ever installed. The metal is thin, one of the step pads was warped out of the box, and one of the nuts in the slide pieces came out due to poor weld. There is no way that these will not bend if they actually get used off road.