Aspen03
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Has anyone here used any of the aftermarket ride height sensors for your air suspension? It seems the factory ones had a strange open ended design and many aftermarket hook on with a similar mechanism that our rear glass and hood lift struts use. I did a quick search here and didn't come across much other than general air ride broken questions. Many without a resolve. Their is an enormous difference in cost vs factory replacements and if the link is improved I'm all for giving 3rd party a shot. Jjst curious is anyone has any experience with one brand over another. Prices on these I've seen from $30-40ea to about $300 for Ford oem with most all points between covered. Being an important piece of the air suspension puzzle I don't want to go a subpar route but if there is a better mechanism on them vs factory it seems like a logical way to go.
As my wife pulled put of our in laws drive, which there is a large bump going up to the road I noticed her navigator bounce pretty hard...enough to make the headlights flutter up and down and catch my attention, I had her immediately pull over in a neighborhood nearby. Turns out the rear ride height sensor linkage had popped off again and as a result more or less bottomed out the suspension since she was climing up over a 6" obstacle. It was essentially riding on the bump stops at this point. Crawled under and snapped it back on, far too easily in my mind and I think it's time for a replacement. The movement also felt sluggish/tight to what I've seen represented in repair videos I looked up last time.
It's happened twice at their house, the first while pulling in about 7 months ago. For whatever reason when the county resurfaced the road they also built up the road bed significantly and no one bothered to taper it off into their gravel drive so there is a hump taller than a curb and not profiled nearly as well that you have to drop off or croll up to get out of there. They've complained several times to no avail. It's the county line road and neither wants to be responsible for correcting the issue. If my in laws didn't happen to drive trucks and suvs there is a high likelihood you wouldn't be able to get out of there. When people visit or deliveries happen people 9/10 times scrape thier undercarriage and bumpers unless you come to a complete stop on a busy road and walk the vehicle down angled 1 tire at a time.
As my wife pulled put of our in laws drive, which there is a large bump going up to the road I noticed her navigator bounce pretty hard...enough to make the headlights flutter up and down and catch my attention, I had her immediately pull over in a neighborhood nearby. Turns out the rear ride height sensor linkage had popped off again and as a result more or less bottomed out the suspension since she was climing up over a 6" obstacle. It was essentially riding on the bump stops at this point. Crawled under and snapped it back on, far too easily in my mind and I think it's time for a replacement. The movement also felt sluggish/tight to what I've seen represented in repair videos I looked up last time.
It's happened twice at their house, the first while pulling in about 7 months ago. For whatever reason when the county resurfaced the road they also built up the road bed significantly and no one bothered to taper it off into their gravel drive so there is a hump taller than a curb and not profiled nearly as well that you have to drop off or croll up to get out of there. They've complained several times to no avail. It's the county line road and neither wants to be responsible for correcting the issue. If my in laws didn't happen to drive trucks and suvs there is a high likelihood you wouldn't be able to get out of there. When people visit or deliveries happen people 9/10 times scrape thier undercarriage and bumpers unless you come to a complete stop on a busy road and walk the vehicle down angled 1 tire at a time.