gobaylor
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I haven’t seen a thread for these yet so wanted to start one and offer my experience with the kit. If there is another thread please let me know.
Bought this kit from Stage3 #19RNGR4WD a few weeks back. Arrived about 4 days apart from one another. Rear shocks first then front struts. I didn’t mind since it allowed me to install on two separate weekends. I knew the rear would be simple and the fronts would take a while.
Side note on Stage3 customer service. I’ve been watching for when they released this kit and saw it go live. In my excitement I forgot to apply the $250 in gift cards I received for my birthday and put it all on the credit card. Couple days later it was still bothering me and I gave them a call. Selected new order on the phone to be put through to a salesman and he was tremendous. Told me he would contact customer service and have them issue a refund for the $250 to the credit card and he pulled up my order to apply the gift cards. Refund went through a few days later as he said it would. Really appreciated how they handled it all.
After install I can tell a tremendous difference in ride quality and road adherence. Overall just more stable, predictable, and no more floating bounce in the front end. Took it in for a front end alignment the next day just to make sure everything was set.
I added the tag CV Shaft because we did the passenger side first and followed the info I had seen out there to push down on the lower ca to get the bottom of the strut to clear out first. The shaft did slip out as a result and was a long learning experience to get back in. I can give more details if anyone wants but driver side went much quicker as we determined that we needed to remove the axle nut and hub to ensure we didn't allow the bearing cartridge to slip past the c spring on the shaft.
Hope this helps and let me know if anyone has any questions.
Bought this kit from Stage3 #19RNGR4WD a few weeks back. Arrived about 4 days apart from one another. Rear shocks first then front struts. I didn’t mind since it allowed me to install on two separate weekends. I knew the rear would be simple and the fronts would take a while.
Side note on Stage3 customer service. I’ve been watching for when they released this kit and saw it go live. In my excitement I forgot to apply the $250 in gift cards I received for my birthday and put it all on the credit card. Couple days later it was still bothering me and I gave them a call. Selected new order on the phone to be put through to a salesman and he was tremendous. Told me he would contact customer service and have them issue a refund for the $250 to the credit card and he pulled up my order to apply the gift cards. Refund went through a few days later as he said it would. Really appreciated how they handled it all.
After install I can tell a tremendous difference in ride quality and road adherence. Overall just more stable, predictable, and no more floating bounce in the front end. Took it in for a front end alignment the next day just to make sure everything was set.
I added the tag CV Shaft because we did the passenger side first and followed the info I had seen out there to push down on the lower ca to get the bottom of the strut to clear out first. The shaft did slip out as a result and was a long learning experience to get back in. I can give more details if anyone wants but driver side went much quicker as we determined that we needed to remove the axle nut and hub to ensure we didn't allow the bearing cartridge to slip past the c spring on the shaft.
Hope this helps and let me know if anyone has any questions.
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