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Originally Posted by tedstundra
I notice that you're in Virginia...You probably don't have concrete freeways with the expansion joints cut a regular intervals as we do out in Calif. The truck is really nice riding on asphalt, city streets, and at speeds well away from freeway speeds, even on concrete hwys. I was really pleased with my new 08 4X2 SR5 until I took it up the I15. Then wow, I thought the thing was going to bounce my guts out. The big proplem seems to be one of resonant frequencies being set up by travel over this type of hwy. My local Toyota service manager assured me that Toyota is aware of the problem is working on a "fix". I won't hold my breath. I think that some type of after market device will end up having to be used to add a slight preload to the spings (or something) to get rid of this really dangerous condition.
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I'm from Florida we have both. Like MX hauler I have the same ride. I'm sure the "DOT" of every state has there way of doing concrete highways. This is probably why California and some other states has so many problems. The closest I can come to this issue is crossing the Dames Point Bridge crossing the St. Johns River. On the southside of bridge on both north and south bound lanes if you do 70 or better you have this front end bouncing. This happened on my 97 Thunderbird the bounce was moderate, 98 Silverado which the bounce was moderate, 03 F-150 which the bounce was crazy like no shocks at all, 03 Crown Victoria was moderate, 06 Silverado the bounce was like no shocks or springs. It was like doing hydraulics on the front end. 07 Prius was no evidence of it, and my 07 Crewmax was slight but very stiff on that section. If I was to do 60 or 65 the bounce would almost be gone on all vehicles except F-150 and 06 Silverado would be moderate bounce. So I can't argue about it yet. I can't take either side so I guess I'm out to lunch on this. I'm sorry but this is what I have.
