In many socialmedias, when I saw it wrote the power running board comes from China, lots of people always comment it is cheap built, junk and such kinds of words, so other people are very hesitate to try them, today I would like to talk about its history in China.
The first inventor for power running board we all know it is from America, and in China I am lucky to recognize a boss, who has brought this power running board from America to our country in early year of 2008 and developed it. The power side steps originally was designed for pickups, but in China pickup is not popular at all, due to government have policy to compulsory scrapping after 15 years, but SUV has a great demand for this.
The first car model to be developed is Range Rover Vogue, but everything is not easy at the beginning, especially the controller design, and big expenditure for motors, swing arms design and mould. After 5 years development, the first power running board made in China was launched in year of 2013. At that time, one set products after installed in Range Rover was sold around $4000~$5000, and quality is not such stable. But till now, this running board have been developed for almost 10 years, controller, mould, material have been updated several times, and many factories was engaged in.
So this is not a brand new products, but a mature products for us. Any friends interested in this item, no need to worry too much about the quality, and any questions, we welcome to communicate.