Power running boards

[wjburken]

OK now that everything is lubed up I can push it in with my hands and it’ll stay in but when I open the door it opens back up when I shut the door. It won’t go back in like it’s hung up but I can help it with my hands every time and was trying to keep doing it to see if it would eventually work correctly. Do you think it could be a motor?

Yeah-these retractable running boards can be a pain. The motor controller has a torque limit setting and if it sees more than that, it just says “F-it, I’m not gonna do anything.”

It’s for this reason I have given up trying to get them working on our 2013. Iowa winter roads just mess them all up. If I find a decent set of fixed running boards, I’m swapping them out.