Sill mounted stirrup step

[simonbav]

Does anyone have a vehicle fitted with these?

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I don't recall ever having seen one fitted.

[diffwhine]

I've fitted them to Defenders multiple times. Standard fit on many mining vehicles.

[Kev]

I'm sure I had one on a Series 3 years ago.

[John]

I wonder how long they drop down, it would be good to see a picture of one fitted

[autorover1]

I dont think the stirrup type step was ever available for the Series vehicles as it was first produced for "Defender" types . I tried some and found them very awkward to use as ones foot was nominally at 90 degrees to the step & needed my foot to be at an angle get my behind onto the seat.

[cswagon]

I dont think the stirrup type step was ever available for the Series vehicles as it was first produced for "Defender" types . I tried some and found them very awkward to use as ones foot was nominally at 90 degrees to the step & needed my foot to be at an angle get my behind onto the seat.

I'm with Derek on this one, there's a pair in my garage that anyone is welcome to if they want to collect.
You'd need to be a contortionist to actually be able to use them.
It didn't matter which foot I led with, it was always wrong.
It's a good job they weren't expensive.

Graham.

[simonbav]

I dont think the stirrup type step was ever available for the Series vehicles as it was first produced for "Defender" types . I tried some and found them very awkward to use as ones foot was nominally at 90 degrees to the step & needed my foot to be at an angle get my behind onto the seat.

I'm with Derek on this one, there's a pair in my garage that anyone is welcome to if they want to collect.
You'd need to be a contortionist to actually be able to use them.
It didn't matter which foot I led with, it was always wrong.
It's a good job they weren't expensive.

Graham.

Thanks Graham, Derek and Mark. I'll shelve that idea and go with folding sidesteps if the need arises 

[TimV]

I have them on mine.

Absolutely brilliant, makes it easy to get in the vehicle, especially when in some green lanes.

And they haven't got pulled off like I've seen some side steps.

I've bolted them into the galvanised sills.

[Craig T]

Never seen these before so assuming they were never a period accessory?

With the deep series 2 sills, I can see foot clearance would be an issue. I have the fold up side steps and like them but I never go anywhere they would get bent or damaged on the terrain.

Craig.

[diffwhine]

They were fitted to mining vehicles as boot scrapers primarily.

[Exile]

I dont think the stirrup type step was ever available for the Series vehicles as it was first produced for "Defender" types .

They are shown in the first One Ten Parts Manual of 1983.

The 88" Series III was still on the production line for that year - and beyond - so it is conceivable they might have been available for those as well, although I guess you'd need a very late SIII Parts Manual to confirm.


They may have been a requirement for the German market, as a plastic "finisher" over the metal step is shown for that market - and the Germans were a bit fussy about things sticking out of the side of vehicles.

[Alan Drover]

I dont think the stirrup type step was ever available for the Series vehicles as it was first produced for "Defender" types .

They are shown in the first One Ten Parts Manual of 1983.

Illustration number 554. Couldn't find it in my Series 3 Optional Parts Catalogue September 1988 issue.
I much prefer the folding side steps. I've used mine to stand on to enable me to reach some of the dash top screws. The stirrup step looks almost impossible to use to get in unless you've got double jointed ankles!