RealTruck AMP Research BedStep | 75312-01A | Fits 2015 - 2020 Ford F-150

Sturdiness: I am right at their spec limit of 300 lb, and feel very confident in this step, by visual sturdiness of the construction and by testing it several times.Ease of use (for some reason not in the Amazon review "stars" list): one of the reasons I love it. Two or three practices over a minute and it is very natural and easy. This was one of my concern areas, for a couple of reasons. 1) I wasn't sure how stiff the spring would be to deploy it and to raise it. After using it, I would say they nailed this design -- easy to deploy, easy to retract, yet solidly in place when retracted and driving. 2) A corollary to above, I was specifically worried about retraction, since you "bump it with your foot." No problem it you're wearing sneakers or work boots or equivalent. I know this is a truck, but I'm not the only one with an office job that commutes in their truck, then stops by the home improvement store to pick up stuff on the way home. I didn't want to have to change shoes just to retract a step, and I didn't want to totally ruin dress/office shoes either. This is easily retractable and I do not have that concern. (BTW, it is deployable and retractable by hand.)Ease of installation: This will be most of the remaining review. I scored it 4/5 since it is definitely a chore, but none of that is the result of poor design or manufacture. (More on manufacturing tolerances below.) Remember that they are making an after-market product that attaches to OEM structural components and that you are working in a tight place. Those two things make it inherently difficult. I do have several suggestions after having done it myself.1) Acquire the tools needed in advance. As noted by several reviewers, you need 13mm, 15mm and 21 mm sockets. For the 13mm, I recommend short socket. You will use it during assembly before installation, and that can be deep-well, but you will have limited space under the truck where it is needed as well, and deep-well is not needed. For the 15 socket, I recommend an impact socket and impact wrench. Makes assembly easier, but not necessary. Again, you will need a short socket under the truck. For the 21mm socket, you will need a deep-well socket. The bolt under the truck extends just enough to need a deep-well socket, I believe, but you might be able to get away with a short one and a short extender.2) Follow the instructions and assemble but do not tighten anything. (This is very common and good practice for this type of thing. You cannot line up all of the holes when you have tightened the previous bolts.)3) DO NOT follow the instructions, and instead use the order of assembly below. This is the biggest complaint about assembly and manufacturing tolerances. Several reviewers report having to re-drill the holes to get it all together, which I did not have to do by using the below approach. Step 2 of the instructions say to install the two 13mm machine screws to hold the two halves of the structural extension together, then Step 3 is to install the 15 mm screws to hold the hinge block to the structural extension. ("Structural extension" and "hinge block" are my terms since nothing in the instructions is labeled. The structural extension is the heavy, two-piece structure that bolts to the truck frame and provides a mounting point for the step.) INSTEAD, reverse these steps. Try as I might, I could not get even the first the 15 mm machine screw in place after installing the 13mm machine screws, and with none of them tightened down. However, by holding everything in place, I could get the 15mm machine screws in place and started into the hinge block. ("Everything" is four components, including both halves of the structural extension, a separate strut, and the hinge block.) Once the 15mm machine screws were in place and not tightened, it was relatively easy to squeeze the two pieces of the structural extension together and line up the holes for the 13mm machine screws to hold it together. It is possible that because of manufacturing tolerance differences that someone else's unit might be better in the other (original instructions) order, but I doubt it, given the size of the bolts and the geometry of the structural assembly.4) Use an impact wrench/socket on the 15mm bolts when assembling. This is not strictly necessary, but if just using a socket wrench, you probably need to clamp the hinge block in a vise. I was able to install these hard-to-seat machine screws by holding it together by hand and using an impact wrench. If you do use an impact wrench, line it up very carefully to avoid cross-threading.5) Do not expect to be able to use an impact wrench when installing on the truck. There is no room. Use a breaker bar. To remove the 21mm nuts, I actually used my torque wrench set to its highest torque setting to effectively turn it into a breaker bar, then adjusted it to the right torque when reinstalling. This is just because I did not carry the breaker bar under the truck with me and this was a workaround.6) I did not tighten any bolts until installing on the truck. This is the safest option since under the truck you have to line up two holes in the structural extension for each of the two 21mm nuts. However, it is pretty easy to visually align the holes when assembling everything on the workbench/tailgate before installing, so if I had to do it over I would consider tightening everything in the assembly before installing, then just tighten the two 21mm nuts and the one 13mm strut machine screw when installing. The reason for this is that is it very difficult to find room to tighten everything once in place. (See following comments.)7) Room is so tight I ended up actually using a 1/4" socket wrench on the 13mm strut machine screw. Luckily this is a 16 ft-lb spec, which is easy to achieve. I did not use a torque wrench due to room, but I have confidence in this one, and you have the removal torque as a sanity check. If someone else figured out the right tool, right approach, or correct angle to get something bigger in there, I'd love to hear about it.8) For the 15mm hinge block machine screws, I was able to get a 3/8" short socket and wrench on these. Higher torque at 32 ft-lb (maybe? not looking at instructions currently), but still easily achievable with a 3/8" socket wrench.9) There is plenty of room to get to and use a torque wrench, but not an impact wrench, on the 21mm nuts. This is the one you don't want to guess on, for sure. This affects the structure of the truck itself and is torqued to 129 ft-lb (again, +/-, follow the instructions).Even with all the above, don't let this daunt you. Total time to install was 1 hours 20 minutes, including assembling all the tools and cleanup. Probably could do a second one in about 30-45 minutes after these lessons-learned and eliminating the staring-at-it-and-scratching-my-head phases of the install. That is, don't let it daunt you if you are an average DIYer. If you can do a brake job, you can do this with the right tools. If you expect to take it out of the box and bolt it onto the truck, you might be disappointed.

I was disappointed that Ford doesn't offer a bumper with corner step like Chevy so you can step up with the tailgate down. This completely fixes that. I was hesitant to get it because it was a little pricey, but after installing it and using it for a month, I can say it was well worth it and I would do it again. The installation wasn't as easy as I expected as it required multiple trips to my shop to get tools and adapters to reach the bolts that need to be removed and reinstalled. It also took some massaging to get the holes in the clamshell design to line up. It didn't take more than an hour though. I use it all the time on my 2018 F150 and would strongly recommend it.

I can finally get up on the bed of my 2020 Ford F150 without the need for a small step stool.(ha ha).I am 71 years old now and getting up on the bed of my truck was becoming quite the chore.I researched all the other brands and decided on this one. It is a very well made truck step, that I have no doubt will last the lifetime of this truck and me too.Easy to drop down to use and just as easy to put back up out of the way.It was fairly easy to install and I would definitely recommend this brand to any truck owner,especially an older person like myself, whose body just doesn't work like it use to.

Put this on my 2018 F-150, Fairly easy to install, very sturdy and it sits at the right height. makes it a lot easier to get into bed

Seems sturdy, but some of the bolt holes didn't line up. Some of the bolts should be torqued before installing on the truck. Can't get a torque wrench on them after installing.

Amp Research Bed Step for a 2020 Ford F-150 STX...First let me say, once installed this is a great product. The assembly itself is rugged, solid, and works flawlessly. The finish is good and there are no sharp edges. The amount of spring tension controlling the up and down movement is perfect. I'm 180 lbs. and the step is solid for my use. Installation was surprisingly easy, though you will need a few sockets, a socket extender, an Allen wrench, and maybe a socket breaker bar and box end wrench. Here are some specifics.1. The assembly is composed of two major brackets, a minor bracket, the step swing arm assembly, and the step itself. The two major brackets fit together and are held together via two 13mm bolts. Each bracket has a tapped/threaded hole that is supposed to accept the 13mm bolt. One of my brackets was drilled and threaded to an incorrect size and would not accept the bolt. After scratching my head for an hour, I called the Amp Research customer support line and got through to a rep right away. I explained the situation and he asked me to text message some pictures. The next day, I received an email indicating they were shipping me both brackets and a new hardware kit (e.g., bolts, clips, etc.). 10 days later the brackets arrived. That's kind of slow, but the new brackets and bolts all fit together fit perfectly.2. After confirming all remaining pieces fit, I then checked to be sure the two main bolts and one minor bolt on the truck, holding the bumper, could be removed. A number of reviews indicate some people have trouble getting these bolts out. I used a 15" breaker bar (e.g., long socket wrench handle extension) and had no problem at all. BTW, I just slid under the back of the truck to install, no jacking or lift necessary.3. To remove the two main bolts on the truck, the instructions indicate a 21mm deep socket is needed. I dutifully ran off to the store to buy that socket. Only later did I realize that 21mm is pretty close to the 13/16 inch deep socket that came in my socket wrench set (spark plug socket ?). In reality, the 13/16 actually fits the bolts on the F150 better.4. The instructions sort of indicate to get everything aligned and together before you start tightening everything down. I pretty much followed those instructions, but I did fully tighten the bolts holding the main brackets together. It might have been tough getting to them after installation. Actually the only bolt I didn't fully tighten was the one holding the minor bracket. I made that one just tight enough to prevent easy movement, then lined it up on under the truck, and then pulled it out an fully tightened. I'll emphasize again the two main brackets and swing arm assembly are very, very substantial !!!5. Everything fit easily together, both the brackets to one another, and the brackets to the truck. I did have to jiggle the brackets a bit to get then to align to one another, but eventually they fell together nicely.6. All in all, installation was surprisingly easy. Maybe 45 minutes. I could probably do a second one in 20 minutes.7. The step itself is hard plastic. I'd prefer something more substantial, but it mounts to the swing arm very solidly, and certainly is strong enough to hold me.No regrets, would buy again !

Well built and sturdy. Not the cheapest but fits well and works well.

The AMP Research bed step makes accessing the truck bed a lot easier, no more jumping up and down onto and from the tailgate and a bonus the bed step can be used with tailgate down. Assembly of bed step was easy and comes with required hardware and instructions for assembly. Installation on the truck took less than 15 minutes and it uses existing hardware on truck (F150) for mounting no drilling or modifications required. Operation of the bed step is very simple, push down with foot to lower and gently push upward with foot and bed step retracts and goes up under the truck bumper. Here are some stepping height measurements: with the tailgate down on my F150 it is 38 inches from the ground, the top of the bumper is 33 inches from the ground off, with the bed step lowered it is 18 inches off the ground. So with the bed step it is easy to step up the 18 inches from the ground and then 15 inches from the bed step onto the tailgate.

As you get older your knees don't like to crawl up into the back of a truck, I was even considering a GMC product because of the bumper step, this step is easy to install and works like a charm !! I will give further feed back in 3 years !!

Bought the step for the rear of my 2017 F150. Received on time with no problems. Only issue with the product was one of the bolt holes needed to be re-tapped as the threads weren't working. Luckily, my neighbour had a tap set. Once done, installation was fairly easy and took about 30 mins start to finish. Top of step sits about 1" below bottom of bumper, but looks like it belongs on the truck. Has already been used quite a bit since installing about a month ago. Will definitely buy again for future trucks - extremely easy to use!

The installation required me to re-thread all the holes. I'm a machinist and had the tools to do it. Most people would not.

works great and easy to pull down with my foot. The threads needed to be retapped but thats the only quality issue they can work on. Wasn't worth the hassel of returning or exchanging as I managed to get it to work,