Still loving the ride with the WEW tune and linear piston. You don't need UCA for the mild lift but I'm putting on rear arms (upper and lower) next week to cure binding in the rear with the stock arms.
I ran stock 8112s with no tuning for 10 months before tuning. Now whether mine had a manufacturing defect (low on oil) is unknown, but bilstein has pretty good quality control generally so it might just be different tuning philosophy. But the difference since switching to the linear piston and...
They are awesome. Small bump compliance is softer than stock, but still get the great zone control so very controlled over bumps and dips. You get a little body roll tbut it still has sway bars so still very composed through turns. I take things faster than ever now with this tuning.
Was thinking about this but this solidified that I will not be doing this. Sorry for your frustrations. Thank you for preventing others from having to go through this.
He's in this thread saying "But IMO, it was the best riding shock I’ve ever experienced for a stock vehicle. " but regardless there was enough out there from Bilstein themselves about how "plush" these were and like I said, I fell for the marketing hype.
I'm also open to the fact that I might...
Good news, he's going to be selling these on his website with this tune. And obviously many people agree because he's had a ton of people reach out about tuning these for the bronco. He was working on my Tacoma and I mentioned the problems I was having with the Bronco and he jumped at the chance...
The original bilstein video and those two videos and more market these as the have-your-cake-and-eat-it too solution that sounded like a perfect use case for my scenario. The way it was tuned, with low oil and air in them turned out to not be what they were marketed as. Watch the bilstein...