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Bit the bullet and went for the King OEM shocks on my 2015 Silverado CC Regular bed. Really Wanted the 2.5 Bilsteins, but those have not materialized for our trucks so I researched shocks for months trying to decide which way to go. I know most people spend a lot on lifts and stereos and things of that nature. I like good suspension. With cars and bikes I have always spent the money to have good suspension with really positive results. Almost always transforms the vehicle, in fact I would rather have good suspension over a built engine, just me. Went for the Cognito arms because they seems to offer the most quality for the price. Was looking at JBA's (big in the Toyota world) and they had awesome features but were $175 more, and at the time they were moving their shop and I couldn't talk to anyone about them. Plus Cognito is known to stand behind their products an productsd are not a fly by night operation. I have been around the off-road industry for many years and firmly believe that most aftermarket companies make crap products and have learned the hard way the "spend once" concept. Now not ever going to put down anyone's budget, and good stuff is never cheap, though expensive guarantees nothing. Shocks (extended travel OEM) are made to order I got them from filthy MS(they require a new UCA). took 4 weeks as promised and got black hoses because I just didn't want all that blue on a blue truck. They did not come adjusted and I have not adjusted them to get the rest of the lift they provide yet. I have only installed the fronts , the rears are in the box still. have to decide how much to lift the rear, if at all. * will need to remove them to adjust as there is not enough room to rotate the collar with the hose mounted in the middle, a little disappointed because I thought you could do this on vehicle. * the initial plushness is not much better than stock. * once you hit anything larger than a small crack/ripple you feel a dramatic improvement in dampening. concrete expansion joints close together are smoothed out. *excessive body roll and unwanted chassis movement is nearly gone. *speed bumps, what speed bumps? *build quality is close to that of aerospace and defense level of MFG. no joke. *overall ride and handling is excellent. **Caveat is do not bolt on shocks and a arms and expect a trophy truck, not even remotely realistic. Now go with a 3" internal bypass with uniballs would be a entry level pre-runner to me, just this set up will not get you there if that is your plan (hardcore off road, constant whoops, drop offs, and jumps... but rough trail and fire roads- are all day perfect). Pretty darn good but not at the level of a true desert truck IMHO and to me for comparison a raptor on stock shocks is not a true desert truck. they do make a 3" IBP by the way... * for a mixed street/offroad vehicle that is used everyday they are simply great! The upper control arms from cognito are very well built as well. Got them through amazon, hard to beat what you get for the price. Went with ball joint style for many reasons, but basically there are high quality replacement available that have near or better range than the uniballs (I researched this, check out JBA offroads ball joints) Also uniballs are overkill for my purpose of use, and are very high maintenance and do not offer any range of travel/angularity that I need or can use with this length shock set up. *cut the service perch to gain the down travel *after a month of driving I noticed contact with the frame(upon visual inspection) When I did the zone trim plates- did not notice contact when driving) I notched the frame slightly where I saw contact. Not that big of deal to me but also expected Cognito to improve the design after many others have experienced this. I'll take away half a star for that , but I know to many people that is unacceptable. From my many (over 35 years) of off-road I expect to have to tune and mod to get things right where you want them to be, and dialing it in is part of it all (not that I enjoy that part, I just like driving stuff that feels right). And agree for how much this stuff cost you shouldn't have to do anything but that is not living in reality. Overall no regrets, only hurts initially on the cost, but this truck isn't going anywhere and compared to the cost of the vehicle or what a good lift or stereo, or engine mods it's not that bad. (that's what I told myself). seriously it is good stuff.