Bullshit Land Rover Ladder

fishEH

fishEH

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My 4 year old Gen-U-Wine Rover ladder is toast. I pulled it today to address the horrific peeling of the powdercoat. Figured I'd take it down to bare metal and POR15 or rattle can or whatever. Started cleaning up the lower mounting feet and one fell off. :banghead:

Anyone have experience with the ladder from Voyager Racks?
http://www.voyagerracks.com/DiscoveryLadder.htm
 
STLGrrover

STLGrrover

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I bought my rack and ladder from them about 2 1/2 years ago. The ladder seems to be fine, no sign of any rust at all. But, I have found a couple of small spots on the rack that I'll have to take care of sooner than later, nothing major.

Hope this helps,
Darrick
 
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AU_88

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I had my ladder for close to ten years and it always worked great... Then again when the powder coating started to peel I had it covered in line-ex.
 
fishEH

fishEH

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Yeah the ladder always worked fine. It's just by the time I scraped all the rust off the lower foot there was nothing left to it.
I'm looking specifically for opinions on other options like the one I linked.
 
kennith

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fishEH said:
Yeah the ladder always worked fine. It's just by the time I scraped all the rust off the lower foot there was nothing left to it.
I'm looking specifically for opinions on other options like the one I linked.
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It won't be super cheap, but I've been thinking about taking mine to a shop and asking them to replicate the same thing in stainless. Then I'll have it covered in bed liner.

Let's see it rust then.

Cheers,

Kennith
 
fishEH

fishEH

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Nomar said:
What the hell did you expect?

The entire truck will rust in 12 years...


I think you should get a ladder milled out of NASA grade titanium
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I expected it to last longer. Considering it doesn't get hardly any use and is up out of the way of rocks and most road salt I'm pretty disappointed in how it held up. The biggest problem was how the PC came off in huge flakes and the foot was rusted off.

I won't be trying the Voyager ladder. A friend is giving me his LR ladder that he already stripped and primed/painted. Word.
 
kennith

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As thick as that coating is, I don't think it's what we would consider proper powder coating. It behaves like those old lawn chairs that used to peel like mad given a chance.

Cheers,

Kennith
 
mlnnc

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I've never understood the ladder thing. I'm genuinely curious why others find them useful, let alone important.

To get up on my roof rack I just step on the bumper, then the tire, and then up to the roof rack. I'm always careful to support as much of my weight as possible on the rack with my hands to minimize weight on the spare tire mount. No problem in the eight or so years I've been doing this.

What am I missing?
 
fishEH

fishEH

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mlnnc said:
I've never understood the ladder thing. I'm genuinely curious why others find them useful, let alone important.

To get up on my roof rack I just step on the bumper, then the tire, and then up to the roof rack. I'm always careful to support as much of my weight as possible on the rack with my hands to minimize weight on the spare tire mount. No problem in the eight or so years I've been doing this.

What am I missing?
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You're gonna love that I don't even have a rack! LOL
A) my kids use it to climb on the roof, which they get a kick out of.
B) The ladder serves as a nice handle to close the door with.
C) I have a 35" tire mounted higher than stock on a swing away tire carrier. So it's about a 40" step up from my bumper to the top of the tire. Not exactly convenient when I need to strap down canoes up there.
 
Blue

Blue

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Nomar said:
What the hell did you expect?

The entire truck will rust in 12 years...

I think you should get a ladder milled out of NASA grade titanium
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My 2004 with 111K miles has absolutely no rust.
 
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