RAMs's 3500 Air Suspension Update
I'm surprised RAM advertised the Air Suspension option and now are not delivering do to engineering problems. Sounds like the cart got ahead of the horse. Link
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I see.
Well, no matter what the dynamics are between the personalities on this forum, my interest in this thread solely revolves around the dynamics of tow vehicle suspension... and specifically, why air suspension systems have such a difficult time making it to market in production light trucks.
It is clear that everyone recognizes the problem that air suspension in a heavy tow vehicle could solve (the same problem it solves in Class 8 tractors). But factory produced systems still seem to hit a brick wall.
I had one of those air suspension Lincolns, and would often find the car resting on it's haunches.
I also had the opportunity to retrofit a parallelogram air suspension system (an earlier, more robust version of the system that Ford was going to use) to my F-550. At the final hour to make a decision, I passed. Not because of cost, but because of my fears regarding reliability. In the years that followed, i read of several reports of that system resting on it's haunches.
If any vehicle manufacture does get an air suspension system working reliably in a production vehicle at an affordable cost, it will be quite an accomplishment that is worthy of praise, regardless of the brand.
Well, no matter what the dynamics are between the personalities on this forum, my interest in this thread solely revolves around the dynamics of tow vehicle suspension... and specifically, why air suspension systems have such a difficult time making it to market in production light trucks.
It is clear that everyone recognizes the problem that air suspension in a heavy tow vehicle could solve (the same problem it solves in Class 8 tractors). But factory produced systems still seem to hit a brick wall.
I had one of those air suspension Lincolns, and would often find the car resting on it's haunches.
I also had the opportunity to retrofit a parallelogram air suspension system (an earlier, more robust version of the system that Ford was going to use) to my F-550. At the final hour to make a decision, I passed. Not because of cost, but because of my fears regarding reliability. In the years that followed, i read of several reports of that system resting on it's haunches.
If any vehicle manufacture does get an air suspension system working reliably in a production vehicle at an affordable cost, it will be quite an accomplishment that is worthy of praise, regardless of the brand.
