Fox 2.0s maintenance on 3rd Gen?

Hey everyone,
I searched on the forum for answers regarding maintenance on an aftermarket suspension.

I have a 2020 OR DCSB and I'm looking to get about 2" of lift all around - I got a quote for fox 2.5's and 2.0's. I've never worked on suspensions so I'm going to pay to get them installed. My questions are:

• It seems that for trucks that are mostly on pavement (daily drivers with occasional offroading) the concessous is to send them in ~50k miles or if they begin to leak/show wear. I assume that means if you don't install/work on the truck yourself you're looking at paying to have the suspension swapped back to stock for a couple weeks, then pay to get it swapped back?
• Does anyone have any reports of actual life span in use? I see what Fox recommends, but I'm curious what amount of life people have actually seen out of these.
• If anyone has had to send them in for maintenance, what's that bill run? I know there are local shops that can also perform this work - so any ball parks are appreciated.

I'm hesitant to spend $4k on a lift (installed with AAL and SPC UCAs) if I'm going to be dropping over $1K every 30k miles or something. The OME Bilsteins seem to never need repair for people who use their trucks like I do - and even the Bilstein 6112's and 5200's apparently have more life than ~50k.

Am I missing something or is this just the unseen expense for +2" of ride height?

 

FOX publish it here. They recommend 50,000 miles for 100% street use rebuilds.

Yes. Either swap it yourself and send it back to Fox, have a shop pull it and send it back or have a shop do the rebuild.

I run Icons and have found their rebuild schedules to be conservative for street use (e.g., I would expect more) and about spot on for off road. That was on a Jeep, though, so YMMV. I'm only 10k miles into my Icons on this Taco.

Foxs official rebuild pricing is on my link above, $75 for 2.0s plus 4-6 hours of labor for the removal/install at your shops rate, probably less.

 

my experience was they began to go soft right around 50k, that's when i first noticed it. by 56k they were barely damping and when i took them off at 59k they were nearly dead. if i was trying to keep them on, i would probably get them rebuilt around 50k.

 

I’d be learning or looking elsewhere w that kind of high maintenance,, especially for pavement princess.

 

i have a Fox 2.5 DSC Accutune kit with around 23K miles on it and its already been a bit of a PITA for mtce and i havent had to do my first rebuild yet. so far i broke a rear shock mount (sent back to Accutune - $280) and replaced a spherical bearing in the front shock eyelet. i will pull it all at the end of the season and get it rebuilt since its not a daily driver for me which will be another $300-400 i think.

Fox, Accutune, and the TW crowd here will say race suspension requires race like mtce intervals and this mtce so far is probably not atypical for the way i use my truck (lots of aired down off pavement nasty road miles and 4wheeling). you didnt specifically say your use case but implied daily driver with occasional offroading so ymmv.

i install and remove everything myself as needed but if i had to pay someone to do that it would not be worth it to me. even doing that myself has me on the fence as to whether it was worth it with the initial cost of the Accutune kit (included rear leafs/bumps as well) and now the mtce on everything. whether it would be worth it to you depends i guess on your budget and how much of an upgrade you feel the Fox suspension is. for a pavement princess daily i doubt it would be.

my wallet says if i can get through a couple intervals with nothing more than rebuilds i might feel it was worth it down the road relative to multiple shock replacements i would have had to do... but my butt dyno says you wanna play you gotta pay and floating over back roads at 50mph is pretty awesome...

 

Thanks everyone for the two cents. I think I’m going to go the 6112/5160 Billy route and learn to do my own suspension work! Anyone know of a good resource for learning how to cut/work the fender liner for the adjustment forward with UCAs? Or is that just a trial and error iteration?