could you rename this forum the savvy/currie tj forum? there sure are a lot of hater’s here if you don’t see things they’re way. i have a full metalcloak 3.5” suspension and i really like it so far. durability? we shall see. if my metalcloak control arm bushings crap out they can be replaced. aren’t johnny joints rebuildable? replace or rebuild, to each their own.
You’ve missed the point entirely.
It doesn’t matter what name is on the control arms or suspension components. The point that so many here are trying to make (and this is prevalent in many other threads as well) is that control arms do not affect ride quality at the lift heights we are dealing with. When someone gets on here and makes a statement like this (that X brand or control arms dramatically improved their ride) they are falsely leading others to believe that certain control arms are going to provide a better ride.
I don’t care if they are Currie, Savvy, Metalcloak, or whatever other brand, control arms do not affect ride quality unless your existing ones are shot behind belief. So again, it’s a false statement. The mind is a powerful thing. If you spend thousands of dollars on something you are already biased into thinking it’s going to give you exactly what you were expecting from it.
The reason Metalcloak is despised by many is because part of their brand includes deceptive marketing and blatantly false claims. Now you can believe those claims or not and that makes no difference to me. But what others are trying to do in so many of these Savvy versus Metalcloak threads is to make others aware that Metalcloak is again using deceptive marketing tactics which so many people are throwing around as if they are actually true.
No one here cares what lift you or anyone else is running. What we care about is when people mislead others with false claims. The original poster believes that he’s getting a better ride from his new control arms, when in fact control arms do not affect ride quality in this case (unless his original arms were completely shot).
Stop being so defensive about all this. Myself and so many others are not on a team, nor are we making any money from suggesting one brand over another. Savvy doesn’t market at all because they don’t have to. Savvy doesn’t claim anything about the Johnny Joints. They don’t hype up the use of Kevlar (another marketing scam) in them as if it’s supposed to be some magical material that changes the game.
What is all boils down to is what the modern left likes to talk about so much…misinformation.
Run whatever arms you want, just don’t claim they improve ride quality and understand that Metalcloak makes some very boisterous claims.