View Poll Results: Which of the 3 Lifts?
AEV 2.5" W/ Geo Correction $1105.00
12
66.67%
JKS 2.5" w/ Fox Shock $1183.00
5
27.78%
BDS 2" Spring w/ Fox Shocks $903.72
1
5.56%
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Which of the 3 would you spend your money on for a 90% Daily On-Road Driver?
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Which of the 3 would you spend your money on for a 90% Daily On-Road Driver?
JK DualSport XT Suspension 2.5" w/ Geo Correction Brackets
JKS Jspec 2.5 in. Lift Kit
BDS 2" Spring Kit with Fox Shocks
I spend most of my time on highway and surface streets, however I do hit a mix of trails on the weekend and for work I do need to access some remote oil field places as well. So reliability and comfort are more important to me then price. I will add GEO correction to any of the lifts.
JKS Jspec 2.5 in. Lift Kit
BDS 2" Spring Kit with Fox Shocks
I spend most of my time on highway and surface streets, however I do hit a mix of trails on the weekend and for work I do need to access some remote oil field places as well. So reliability and comfort are more important to me then price. I will add GEO correction to any of the lifts.
Last edited by bjielsl; Sep 26, 2015 at 01:12 PM.
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Going to get lots of opinions on this. Here is mine for my own usage. AEV as you say geo correction, I did replace Bils with Rancho 9000, Teraflex Trackbar, omu steering stabilizer. Love the ride and mild offroad performance.
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JK DualSport XT Suspension 2.5" w/ Geo Correction Brackets JKS Jspec 2.5 in. Lift Kit BDS 2" Spring Kit with Fox Shocks I spend most of my time on highway and surface streets, however I do hit a mix of trails on the weekend and for work I do need to access some remote oil field places as well. So reliability and comfort are more important to me then price. I will add GEO correction to any of the lifts.
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After some research Planman summarized it pretty will in another thread
AEV and MC are designed for completely different uses.
AEV designs its stuff to work together--extremely heavy bumpers, Hemi swaps, etc.--to be used mostly for street driving and expedition-type wheeling. The coils and shocks are tuned/valved to work together, and the steering and control arm drop brackets, and other brackets are designed to handle hard braking, hard cornering, and other street driving better than stock.
It actually works pretty good for towing at max limits--3500 lbs on a JKU.
As a result, if your rig is light (without very heavy bumpers and loaded with cargo), you drive offroad rarely in expedition mode, you rarely tow, you spend most of your miles off road, etc., the AEV lifts weren't designed specifically for your use.
The MC lifts were designed by guys who rock crawl their jeeps who look for maximum suspension articulation with stock length control arms. They weren't designed for running a slalom course with 1000 lbs of bumpers and cargo added to your jeep, within extra 500 lbs from a Hemi swap, and an emergency braking stop added to the course.
I wouldn't run an AEV if my primary use was rock crawling, and I wouldn't run an MC if my rig was an ubber heavy, mostly street driver that regularly towed 3500 lbs.
AEV designs its stuff to work together--extremely heavy bumpers, Hemi swaps, etc.--to be used mostly for street driving and expedition-type wheeling. The coils and shocks are tuned/valved to work together, and the steering and control arm drop brackets, and other brackets are designed to handle hard braking, hard cornering, and other street driving better than stock.
It actually works pretty good for towing at max limits--3500 lbs on a JKU.
As a result, if your rig is light (without very heavy bumpers and loaded with cargo), you drive offroad rarely in expedition mode, you rarely tow, you spend most of your miles off road, etc., the AEV lifts weren't designed specifically for your use.
The MC lifts were designed by guys who rock crawl their jeeps who look for maximum suspension articulation with stock length control arms. They weren't designed for running a slalom course with 1000 lbs of bumpers and cargo added to your jeep, within extra 500 lbs from a Hemi swap, and an emergency braking stop added to the course.
I wouldn't run an AEV if my primary use was rock crawling, and I wouldn't run an MC if my rig was an ubber heavy, mostly street driver that regularly towed 3500 lbs.
Being that I am not a rock crawler and I am planning on using the jeep for an expedition style rig, I think that AEV is built more for my taste.
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No cam bots is required or spacer if you stick with stock rims.
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Did the AEV 2.5 a while back with GEO bracket, really love the ride especially when completely naked, all the weight in the JK lower portion it feel like a go cart: minus the power lol. As mentioned the lift is rated higher than the stock JK weight. The quality is there I have 0 issue with it and I'm a big suspension banger I rarely lift the foot dde09 No cam bots is required or spacer if you stick with stock rims.
Need spacers for stock wheels?
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Been there, done that; on a different JK. Was OK, but didn't wow me. Guess I wanted to try something different. I put that lift on a 07 JK for my friend, it went from Hawaii to Italy to San Diego; then she sold it to my mom and now it is back here in TX. I have built and cared for this jeep for 8 years and I have only driven it about 20 times.