I only have a little over 500 miles on my HHR but after reading this post, I emailed my stealership about it. It being a holiday weekend, I dont expect to hear anything real soon. I did ask if they would be willing to add the floorboards like our northern Canucks. I dont look for a positive response but we'll see. I did ask about getting the boards AND splash guards installed to avoid any future trips to their body shop for repainting. I want to nip it in the bud before anything happens. I'll inform the group as to how it goes.

 

I already had running boards when I bought mine. I wish I could've milked GM like you guys did.

 

Hmm... wish I would have known about this pre-purchase. Would have used it as leverage in the deal negotiations.

Heck. So I have to buy boards to prevent my paint from getting slowing grit-blasted off? That is annoying.

 

Agreed. I had mine added within the 1st month of ownership.

 

Like I posted before you can get board kits [unpainted] for $398.48+ $35.00 shipping.[They just went up] If P&G can sell them at this price then dealer cost is lower. If they will sell you the boards at cost & paint them [like they are willing to repaint the rear sandblasted spots] that they said they would paint, you can install them yourself. Look in the HOW TO and there is step by step that some of our woman members did. A great job at that!!!
It seams like a easer thing to do then just going round & round with dealer,GM,BBB ect.

 

The earliest thread on this starts Feb 9, 2006. Yep its been going on a while.

 

I used to have a '95 Corvette. I remember there was a product I saw once that was some kind of clear transparent high gloss protective plastic coating that could be applied to the front fascia of the Vettes to protect against rock chips etc. I wonder if this would work. I can't remember if it was a spray on or what.

 

It's the 3M ClearBra material. It's available and it works, but most people here would rather have GM provide free running boards rather than pony up for a couple of pieces of the stuff.

 

I'd prefer free boards as well, but I don't see Chevrolet USA doing anything like that, especially as a preventative measure before the (apparently inevitable) paint damage occurs.

 

I found prepainted boards on gmpartsdirect.com for $433.65 and plan to take that figure to Chuck Hutton (midsouth's largest GM parts warehouse) to see if they'll match the pricing. I'd install them myself or pay chevy if they'd do it reasonably.