Recent content by sunrise089

My man, I promise you I have no desire to be 'Chevy defender guy' here, since I personally don't find the GM EV options very compelling at all. That said, GMAuthority is just a commercial blog. It's no more affiliated with GMU or 'official' than this site is affiliated with Ford. And sadly, the...

@WXman Perhaps I misunderstood you. Your post I quoted ended with the following paragraph, pasted in full: “That's 100% the reason EV truck sales are still a tiny fraction of ICE truck sales, and nobody will convince me otherwise.” Your post had six paragraphs leading to that conclusion. All...

“People don't buy Chey’s because they know the quality sucks” is a meme answer, not a serious claim. Chevy and Ford are about equally popular. Both are 100 year old companies with some of the highest brand recognition in the world. Both have millions of devoted fans, and both have millions of...

I mean it’s up to people if they want to have a serious discussion or a jokey meme discussion. It’s the internet so it’s not like the stakes are high. If we’re being serious, the Chevy + GMC twins outsell the F Series. Doesn’t mean I think they’re better and certainly doesn’t mean this forum...

Agree to disagree. I think your issue is totally legitimate but represents maybe 10% of the reason EV truck sales lag ICE trucks. Again if your 100% the reason is correct then max range GM truck sales should have totally displaced SR Lightning sales. How’s that working out?

I'm very sorry, I was trying to respond to @Smokewagun who said the Lightning failed because the range was mediocre. I didn't see several more comments had come in including more from @Smokewagun who softened/clarified his original comment. You are no doubt right that a 600 mile $50k Lightning...

Why do you think the Lightning would do better with 500 miles of range and the associated higher price? What is your example of an EV where that combo led to sales success? Critics love 400-500 mile EVs, but buyers don’t.

IMHO no. Supply seems stable after years of adding and removing shifts, and raising and lowering prices. If anything the end of the tax credit will mean supply is too high. Also the used market is pretty weak, which doesn’t suggest inventory is tight.

Truck looks good. It’s funny you can buy an Eibach pro kit and be buying springs to lift the truck, shocks to lift the truck, spring and shocks to left the truck, or springs to lower the truck. By all accounts Eibach has great phone support to explain these things, but they could do with some...

I like aspects of all of this. Pushing the SR battery into a smaller percentage of the lineup makes some sense. I’m all for options and consumer choice, but if Ford can say ‘standard 290+ range’ (with an “except fleet models” caveat) that will help with marketing. I also like the slight hp and...

I really don’t know if the people who think the Lightning (yes even the Plat when factoring price in at all) has a good interior just haven’t looked at the competition at all, or if they’re glass-half-full people who grade it on the best features (like leather seats and the screen) and ignore...

Any rubbing anywhere?

When you called Eibach what did you do to get to talk to one of the engineers? Is it as simple as “may i please speak to an engineer?!”

Bolded for emphasis mine. I did not catch this previously or did not properly internalize it. I see looking more closely at his thread that he’s ~4” of total lift. Him deciding UCAs are needed certainly makes sense now :) Putting all of this together as well as the excellent recommendations...

I don’t think they say “extra weight only” due to ride, but rather to keep the total lift under 3”. As you probably saw, the 2.6” OEM spring and 2.9” Eibach spring lift heights are at opposite ends of the shock mounting options. Ie the Eibach spring adds 2.9” by itself while the shock alone adds...