Walking around the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the number of raised trucks on display is a bit overwhelming, with examples running the gamut from mild lifts to full-blown car-crushing monsters, and everything in between. During our time there, we spoke with representatives from General Motors, who clued us in on a little-known lift kit for the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 that is worth highlighting.
This kit provides the light-duty pickup with a two-inch suspension lift, and is offered as the only two-inch suspension lift kit that was “designed, engineered, tested and backed by General Motors” specifically for the Chevrolet Silverado.
“Developed by the same vehicle-level engineers that built the truck, this system was tested under the same grueling conditions, and will not void the New Vehicle Limited Warranty,” Chevy explains.
The kit includes front and rear passive monotube dampers that are tuned specifically for the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 chassis, as well as front half-shafts, rear leaf spring spacers, front compatibility brackets, jounce bumpers, and all the hardware needed to make it work.
Critically, the kit also includes Front Camera Reconfiguration and Electronic Power Steering Calibration, which means those high-tech features aren’t tossed out the window with the suspension lift.
Pricing is set at around $1,300. Installation by an authorized GM Dealer is recommended.
Restrictions for this particular kit make it incompatible with the following Chevrolet Silverado vehicles (relevant RPO codes listed in parentheses):
- All regular cab trucks
- 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Custom Trail Boss and LT Trail Boss models
- All Max Trailering Package trucks (NHT)
- All Snow Plow Prep-equipped trucks (VYU)
- Any 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 equipped with composite rear leaf springs, including LT trim level with the 5.3L V8 L84 engine, LT trim level with Short Bed and 3.0L turbo-diesel LM2 inline six-cylinder Duramax engine
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Mmm I’ll take Bilstein 5100 ride height adjustable shocks and struts over Rancho trash. GM needs to get away from the Rancho, or ‘Rancho’ licensed shocks
The GMT400 Z71 trucks had Bilstein monotube shocks from the factory. They should have kept using them
I second the bielstinen5100 adjustable shocks… aditional 2—-2.75″ no needed or out of line adjustments.. plus addead rear heavy duty leaff sprin made the truck handle and ride better…. the stock ranchos which are base junk shocks wear out around 40,000 miles!
Not voiding the factory warranty on a $60,000 truck seems like a good idea to me! I do not need some super high end after market lift. I just need to not hit a few rocks and logs while hunting and I do prefer the look of being 2″ higher. Kudos to GM for offering both the Trail Boss, as well as, the flexibility to add the lift yourself! I am about to install it myself, which saves the $1,200 dealer charge to install. Also, having the electronically controlled steering and front camera re-calibrated to still work correctly is another plus with the factory lift, although, I assume I will need to have the dealer do that, so hope that cost is reasonable.
I put an after market 2.5″ Bilstein adjustable shock lift on the front of my 2010 Sequoia and a Coil spacer lift on the back and, while it looks great, the steering sensitivity dramatically changed in a bad way!! Hoping the GM lift will avoid such an outcome this time!
You make it sound like if I lift my new truck, everything once under factory is VOIDED. It you add a lift it will voids the warranty on the parts that you replaced for the lift you choose and that’s all. That’s form the sales manager at my GM dealer and the service manager verified the managers statement. Here’s a (rhetorical) question, If you replace your tires and wheels does that void factory warranties…
False, it voids anything that is impacted, not just the parts. If your control arms fail because you stuff a 2+inch level on that factory control arms, then yes, that isn’t covered. Anything tied to the aftermarket part warranty is gone.
If you put extremely large and heavy tires on there and your transmission goes out then yes, if lugging around the tires that are say nearly twice the weight and much larger than stock caused the issue you are SOL on your warranty.
So your sales manager (which you can never believe what they say as they just want to sell you a vehicle) and service manager (not a whole lot better as he still needs to send proof and get approval from GM) are wrong on it JUST removes the warranty from the parts you replace. It in fact will negate any warranty to parts tied to that failure as stated above.
So no your radio is fine unless you add after market items to that.
The biggest bonus on this kit is that you get the new high flex front half shafts, meant for extreme angles. No more worries about lifting my truck so high that I burn out the CV joint in my half shafts or ripped boots. Major failure of the aftermarket companies, is failure to address this issue.
Can you put a leveling kit along with these GM lift kits?
Max tire size on a 20×9 +1 offset? after this lift is installed. 305/55 ???
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