Icon Vehicle Dynamics

And this is why I roll with OME nitros on the truck and a mid teir hardtail mountain bike on the rack.

 

Assuming the installer can get a replacement part in reasonable time. You know what the lead times are to get new shocks from any of the big-name mfrs. Icon's warranty process isn't any worse than Fox's or King's, with King offering a particularly short 90-day warranty.

Yep, you pay extra to avoid downtime. That's how most things go. In 2014, I had an Icon spring crack on the last coil within warranty period (this was before they switched to Eibach springs). I sent Icon a photo of the spring with the installed preload, and they were happy enough to send me a replacement spring right away. But if I wanted FedEx overnight shipping, it was an extra $70. I paid a local shop with a wall-mounted compressor another $70 to swap the spring. Pay to play, as they say. The shocks themselves went 7 years and 65,000 miles with no leaks and no maintenance before the truck got totaled.

As others have said, the benefit of these coilovers is increased performance, at the expense of potentially additional maintenance. If you don't use your truck in a way to see the increased performance, then there's no benefit.

 

Thanks for the advice....How hard is it to rebuild it yourself if they send you the kit? I'm Kind of green at this and never have done it.

 

I like your style...my mountain bike is also a hard tail. And it seems OME has a 3 year warranty.

 

FJ shock, Tacoma should be similar:





You'll need to take the shock to a shop that can fill nitrogen to the required pressure.

 

duh...should have googled it

 

I’ve rebuilt and revalved my icon 2.5 remote resis (front and rear) twice now. It’s not difficult. Alternatively, you can take them to a shop in your area to have them serviced. These are extremely simple ,standard rebuildable shocks , so nothing special is required other than the seal kits (20 bucks per shock) . The only special tool you might need is the needle fill tool if your shocks don’t have remote resis. If you have remote resis some tire shops have nitrogen (Schrader valve) at 150 psi and any bicycle shop that rebuilds mtn bike shocks will have 200 psi nitrogen for charging. When my own nitrogen bottle is empty, I usually swing by Costco tire or my local bike shop and they have done it for me free (the charging with nitrogen last step). I’ve even charged shocks with pure Argon and shop air (what was in the garage that night ) just so I could make a desert run lol.

ya overall any rebuildable shock will need to be serviced and more importantly re valved (tuned) many many times. This isn’t that bad once you see how easy it actually is. Just watch that video if you don’t believe me.

 

Thank you for the advice.