Does air rides better than Spring?

[Steve R]

My vote is that it's a cool thing. I can readily understand how a victim of such problems may vote against the system....but I've had no problems with it, nor has anyone in my club.

The air suspension is cool. The hissing noise and air-release thing is neat. The additional clearance has come in handy while offroading and the ride overall is better (then the conventional system).

GM offers this system on their top-end vehicles, calling it "Auto-Ride"...and salesman will swear that anyone call tell the difference between driving with or without the system.

The clever thing GM did with our H2's is allow the system to be fully inflated to create the "height adjustment" in order to provide greater clearance. They also provided access to the compressor for use to inflate things. It's both handy, fun and clever. Thumbs up here!

On a side note, I was sorta surprised that only the rear could be raised with the height control...I'd like to see some front height control in models to come. Frankly, I'd love to borrow a page out of the book of "low-riders" and get some big-time height control out of our rigs...but not to go lower, just to go higher.