PS --- this dealer has been a real snotface to talk to and they are nasty if you call, so make sure that you are ordering correctly 'cause it seems they aren't required to make things good by their own sub-standard standard.

They've got a good product --- nothing wrong there --- but their People Skills are in the toilet.

 

What’s the big deal? Ad says Silverado and then confirms it fits a Sierra. The Sierra has to have same cab/box configuration!!!

 

IIRC, there are 3 different bed lengths ... the Crew Cab is the shortest at 5.5 feet, and the ad excludes that length although Amazon says otherwise.

Read the ad again and you'll see they say different things.

Who's right? Technically, the seller is and the seller won't take Amazon to task for misrepresenting the product, while Amazon says the selller is wrong.

This puts the buyer into a black hole when the seller warns the buyer that they were pre-warned but bought the wrong part and you have to pay a huge oversized shipping fee to send it back.

Amazon says they don't see anything wrong with their Vehicle Confirmed Fit assessment and: Yes, the buyer has to pay return shipping even though Amazon is wrong.

I decided to see if I could make the raiis work on both my 5.5' Short Bed trucks .... I could and I did.

Read the ad on the link I posted ..... you're wrong.

 

Amazon doesn't ask for box length that I recall so they say they fit but only certain configs.

 

Amazon DOES ask for Y-M-M, and the Model: Crew Cab bed is 5.5'.

- ✓ This fits - 2005 GMC Sierra 1500

Since Amazon asked and i gave my info, Amazon is the assumptive screwup here.

Their drop down says "This fits your vehicle" when they know it's a Crew Cab w/5.5' bed, per the "My Garage" questionaire setup when iI input that info. .

According to the seller, it does NOT fit the Crew Cab nor the 4-door trucks with the only beds available for those vehicles.

It's the 5.5' exclusion that Amazon is misrepresenting.

.... there may be another truck w/5.5' bed ... I dunnow and that's moot.

 

Where does Amazon say otherwise?
It says on the thing "6.5' bed and Exclude 5.5'" so yeah I am inclined to say you are in the wrong here.

 

READ the ad ..... it's all there .....

 

Long story short - I decided

to whine about this in a forum because it made me feel cool

is that right?

 

I didn't ask for your opinion --- and I don't remember kicking your water bowl ........

I was saying ---> I have a way to make the wrong parts fit with no modifications to the truck or the rails in case anyone else got caught up in bad advertising scripts from Amazon and their seller when they both say the opposite.

If you don't want to know how to make things fit --- butt out because this doesn't pertain to you --- you provide no insightful, upbuilding or encouraging views and only want to denigrate and accuse me of something that was not my intention.

 

I believe a lot of us will order the correct part based on providers description, not Amazons description. 38 years in the auto parts business tells me this.

 

Wouldn't that be wonderful - if it was true!

There are incompetents everywhere --- I call them the 2-percenters -

Catalog - and internet as an extension - orders are fraught with mistakes and inconsistencies that can most times be credited to poor ad writers or people upon whom the understanding of things mechanical is sadly absent.

I spent more than 57 years "in the business" of working for and with the public and if there's a way to screw things up they are usually the headwaters.

BUT if someone or something assumes the responsibility to make a declaration that "This fits your vehicle" when all the factoids they have gathered - but are not part of the final equation --- well, the axe falls on the neck of the entity that has made those assumptive conclusions and has to be responsible.

I gave all the answers - including Crew Cab to them, and they made a w.a.g.

 

Sounds like you don’t want to take responsibility on what you ordered. You had conflicting information on the part yet you still ordered it. When I did our cataloging and website online ordering I made sure it was accurate. But I’m in the business. I certainly cannot do computer coding which my son does, but he knows absolutely nothing about auto parts. Just think of how many parts are on Amazon and how many can be wrong. I’ve seen bigger mistakes in smaller companies.

 

I tried to post this with good news and yet --- you want to fight ... whatsupwiththat?

But I'll bite again ---> You're wrong. I have ZERO responsibility because of what Amazon said.

I asked Amazon and they said: "If we say it fits (or it doesn't) then that's what we mean".

Who can argue with that? - but Amazon didn't have a dog in the fight 'cause it wasn't an Amazon Prime merchant so anything that happened after the original sale, was on the buyer.

Anyway --- stop with the arguing --- this is what happened - ultimately ..

 

I’m not arguing at all! I’m just making a point you ordered a part with conflicting fit info. In this case you have a supplier with correct info and a company full of computer nerds saying it fits. Not that there’s anything wrong with a computer nerd!!! My son works for AWS.
Glad you made them work.

 

Thanks for the MERGE. The first post was the red truck and this is the black-ish truck. (I honestly don't know what the color is --- the paint code gets me a "Midnight Swirl" or something like that - but I think it's more like "Deep Green Metallic with Hints of Red, Blue and Bronze in a Charcoal Green/Black overspray" type thing)". In bright sun, which the weatherman says will return by August, it is sparkly-green.


I digress.

2005 GMC Sierra Crew Cab, short bed, and a 2005 Chevy Silverado Crew Cab, short bed ....

Was going crazy trying to find chrome tube bed rails because the advertising was hard to decipher.

Anyway ---I "accidentally" bought a set for one of the trucks and when the package arrived, I was angry that they were too long --- but not really.

I missed the return window and just stuck them in the shop - in the corner.

One day - I opened the box and looking at it, I noticed the mounting tabs can be reversed with just two Torx Screws ..

I had to cut the Allen Wrench down to a very short end so it would fit under the tight area as you can see in this (^) picture above.

.............................. just sayin' ..............

 

Just an FYI, you told us about this back in November of 24

 

That was the red truck --- this is the not red truck. <jk>

Thanks --- I actually wanted to show the success of the installation and it wasn't a fluke that it fit a red Chevy one without fitting the black-isn GMC "other" truck.

 

Threads merged.

 

It’s not a fluke that it fits. All the sheet metal from the doors back are the same for Silverados and Sierras in the year range 99-06 and 07 Classic. 38 years in the automotive parts industry has blessed me with that knowledge.

 

Yeah --- but ---- not where the OP (mine) was going.

IF the tabs are set in the original position, these rails fit ONLY the longer boxes.

This was made crystal clear from the manufacturer as they told me they will not fit the shortbeds at all and that's not the design as built.

I said: Aha! but they WILL fit if one turns the tabs around backward!.

That's all ---- nothing more ... the attempt of tongue-in-cheek humor by me concerning RED GM trucks being the same as Blackish GM trucks --- I guess it went over some people's heads.

Sorry to have offended anyone.