Trey Salem

My wife bought a 2015 Tahoe ltz with the z95 suspension less than a year ago. We noticed the mag ride failed shortly after hooking up a trailer and towing it a short distance. It has progressively gotten worse the past month. Never did get any better. This thing rides ridiculously rough. Not even applicable with the conversation with ride preference. Backing out of the driveway, speed bumps, small cracks in the road, imperfections in parking lots that would otherwise go unnoticed will literally bounce you out of your seat. Drinks splashed all over the place that were in the cup holder. It isn’t even a rough ride, it is a violent ride. The fix, there’s a few options. New factory front struts either installed at the dealership or on your own as well as rear air shocks. Very few places are selling these as of now because most of these trucks are still under warranty. If you’re unlucky, the truck isn’t under warranty or you get the run around at the dealership and they tell you it’s all in your head and or try to sell you a new truck. You can either walk to the parts department and purchase the replacement shocks and struts or you can take it to a local repair shop and pay them for parts, markup and labor to fix it for you. OR........there are multiple aftermarket applications that you can purchase. You can even go back to conventional shocks and struts and separately purchase resistors that plug into the wiring harness to trick the computer into thinking the truck has the OEM parts on it still. This will eliminate the service suspension system warning on the dash. For the rear shocks, they make the conventional “upgrade” with a compressor module bypass that plugs into the compressor module located up underneath the spare tire. There are many options to go with depending on what you’re looking for. It seems the most sensible option for those with deep pockets is to get all 4 shocks/struts replaced at the dealership and pay the money. Or if you’re looking to go the other direction or perhaps do it yourself and get a hell of an upgrade for half the price you can go with aftermarket stuff and kind of piece together yourself a mag ride delete kit. There are some forums and a few YouTube videos out there if you really look hard. I’m going with the second option simply to never get a pissed off text message from my wife wearing her coffee on the way to work again. ?