is this a second review of the wrightline gear
moki doorstep yes yes it is because the original had a critical flaw that has now been resolved
hello i'm wanderer001 and this is my my re review of the rightline gear moki doorstep as i stated
before there was a critical flaw in the first one and i passed it off as just maybe it didn't happen
to me or i used it wrong and that's why i got what i got which was the damage to the door frame
well here's what we're looking at the original on the right you can see why your door frame may get
damaged because the rubber footie is being held in place not only by two screws underneath it but
two screws in the back of it well what happens is depending on how much you bounced around how heavy
you are or the style of door frame that you had the rubber could move ever so slightly and then
your phillips screws here would rub on your door frame or dent your door frame and that just is not
good however moki has redesigned their rubber bumper in the back to get rid of that problem
so i figured it would be worth a re-look at to see if anything has changed and as you might suspect
not a lot has changed from the original review however if you are picking this up either in
store online it does seem that they have phased out the older versions and that's good however if
you want to know for sure if you have one of the new versions simply flip yours on upside down and
look does it say patent pending or does it have a patent number if it has a patent number guess what
you have the newest one with that being said we're going to take the the old doorstep
out of the frame so that we can concentrate on the what i'm going to call the version 2. just
like the original one you have a fully aluminum footstep that is just under two pounds so it's
nice and light you can carry it around with you wherever you like they say that you can put it in
your glove box i keep it in the back of my subaru under the floorboard because well that's where
i keep my outdoor e or car maintenance stuff you are looking at a footstep that is 9.3 inches long
has a depth of 3.9 almost four inches and a height up to the hook here of five and a half inches
up to the rubber hook now the hook itself is rubberized so that it will not scratch or
damage the hook that you would actually be using on your car door in order to latch this into place
as we've talked about before the major redesign with this is the rubber bumper in the back they
only use screws now on the bottom to keep this in place so if we look at it we can
kind of pull that out a little bit and you can see really it's just kind of injected in there
so you can see we do get a little pull but we can always slip those back into place very easily and
again that's going to be the compromise of not leaving dents on the side of your door frame
is having a little bit of wiggle there and we'll discuss that a little later when i actually
demonstrate the usage of this on my vehicle now just like the original the all aluminum
construction is textured on top so that you can get a firm grip whether that be in rain snow or
mud if you happen to have debris on your boots well you'll notice that these cutouts are here
to allow pass-through of debris and material which is very nice you also have some on this
side which is not gripped like the rest of it but it allows for pass-through of debris and material
i will say that you know if you get mud and dirt in here because it is coated aluminum you can just
spray it off when you get home or tap it off when everything dries off that's the beauty of this now
the primary reason that i originally went with this particular doorstep from
rightline gear again it was the shark tank thing i don't really watch shark tank but it came highly
recommended and when i got it the reason i got it was the step itself is larger both in length and
width than a lot of the other competitors and i wanted to give myself as much room as possible so
that's the doorstep itself let's see it in action before i get started actually demonstrating and
showing everything i want to point out this little mark here is not actually from the current step it
is from the last step which i did not notice last time i always use the step on the other
side of my car so when i tested to see if it was actually damaging the vehicle the previous version
i did not notice that little thing so just keep in mind this has actually not been caused by the new
step it is the old step that did this because i've tested the new step here haven't seen anything
else like this and on the passenger side up front this will be installation of the new version 2
step it's very simple like i said you have the hook here you simply place into the point on your
car door and you can see it just hooks in there and it's rubberized so it doesn't actually
damage anything you've got your new footy you will notice that the new footy doesn't sit
flushly with this particular vehicle and that's because of the curvature of the
wheel well but that doesn't mean that you can't get a good footing on here you may have to just
adjust the positioning of the foot slightly in order to make sure that it is sitting flush so
you don't get a lot of wiggle room with this particular foot i actually have given myself 16
extra inches from the base of the floorboard there which is where i was standing originally to access
my cargo box not quite as much as i got when i was standing on the backs of my seats however
i don't have to stand on the backs of my seats with this and i get all this extra space
and i get something that i can move from car to car to allow me to get to things that are higher
now depending on the shape of your wheel well for your particular vehicle you may not be able to use
this it does work better with flat door panels so depending on your vehicle is whether you'll
be able to use this in the rear or you'll have to use it in the front i'll show you what this
looks like on the front of my vehicle as well you can see from the size and how it sticks out you
can if you have smaller feet get two feet on here however i prefer to use it with one foot like this
just because it gives me a more stable base to work off of now i could just roll in the footage
that i did from last time of me standing on this but that's not how i roll so here we go with
new demonstrations of different types of footwear on this particular step
all right we started with a hiking boot this is a snow boot
and last but not least a sneaker now you can see like i said i kind of use the long part for better
gripping but if i wanted to i can kind of get two feet on there just again based on my particular
car sneakers will be easier hiking boots it'll be more difficult and snow boots as well and
once again to demonstrate the ease of installation and also on a slightly flatter surface bring the
hook up slides down and rests into place now the only difference that i have found with the version
two versus the version one aside from not putting dents in the side of my car if you are at the very
tip or the edge of the step you may feel like the rubber is moving slightly and i think that's why
the screws were there originally to help prevent it from feeling like that don't worry the rubber's
not actually going to go anywhere on you but if it disturbs you you can move further in so there
you have it after removing the one critical flaw in the original version of this doorstep i can
highly recommend picking it up it is a little pricier than a lot of the other doorsteps out
there at 45 dollars pretty much no matter where you end up getting it keep in mind that you are
getting not hollow aluminum much wider much longer and will no longer damage your vehicle whether you
care if it was a shark tank thing or not is up to you all i can say is i did like the original very
much until i noticed that yes the dents that i was getting in my car were actually from it
so rectify that with the version two remember to look for the patent number on the bottom to make
sure that you are getting the version two which is what i'm going to call this with that being said i
have been wanderer001 if you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them in
the area below and as always thanks for watching if you found this video helpful consider giving
it a like as that will help other people find the video as well if you like what i'm doing
here you can always help fuel the next review by buying me a coffee link in the description below
last but not least if you want to be notified when i upload a new video you know what to do