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4,800-lb Capacity. Ride-Rite air springs enhance your factory suspension for safety and stability when you are hauling heavy loads. They reduce strain on your rear axle, keep your vehicle level, and adjust to load size for a consistently smooth ride.
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Firestone Ride-Rite springs are designed to increase safety and reduce the strain on your vehicle when you are hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer. The springs partner with your existing rear suspension system to help keep your vehicle level, maintain even load distribution and increase stability. Hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer can make the rear of your vehicle sag and the front end rise. This puts more strain on your rear axle and reduces contact between your front tires and the road, causing problems with braking, steering control and traction. By adding air springs to your rear suspension, you can help to level your vehicle and improve braking and handling. The air springs also help to level your headlight beams and reduce wear on your tires.
Adjustable Air Pressure
The air pressure in your Ride-Rite springs can be adjusted manually, side to side, to compensate for off-center loads. A centered load improves the stability of your vehicle by reducing body roll. The air springs will also help to absorb road shock and to soften contact between your axle and frame. This prevents bottoming out, thus improving ride comfort. Route the air line tubing for the springs to your vehicle's bumper to provide easy access to the manual inflation valves.
Air Spring Construction
Firestone's double-convoluted Ride-Rite air springs are designed to give you maximum load support and enhance the performance and ride comfort of your vehicle. The rubber springs provide cushioning between your suspension components and operate at up to 100 psi. The springs have four layers of reinforced rubber to ensure durability and enhance load support. A braided wire girdle creates the double-convoluted shape of each air spring, increasing the burst pressure of the spring. The rubber springs are attached to corrosion-resistant metal end plates with a time-proven, rolled crimp seal that keeps the bags securely anchored.
Air Spring Installation
Each Ride-Rite kit includes custom-fit brackets that connect to your axle and frame. The brackets provide the mounting points for the air springs. Drilling may be required for some applications.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (768 Customer Reviews)
4,800-lb Capacity. Ride-Rite air springs enhance your factory suspension for safety and stability when you are hauling heavy loads. They reduce strain on your rear axle, keep your vehicle level, and adjust to load size for a consistently smooth ride.Easy to install. Directions are great, as are the videos. I also ordered and used the T piece to make it easy. Just pulled my trailer and definitely noticed a difference. Very smooth over bumps. Just FYI, even at only 5 PSI (minimum recommended) it raised the rear of my truck almost an inch compared to the height before install. Not a big deal, but if you leveled the front of your truck like I did to get rid of the rake, you will now have some rake again. Not a big deal, but just be aware. I used the lift spacers (item F2536) because I have 1.5" spacer blocks on my leaf springs. I basically hook up the trailer or load the bed, watch the back end drop, then hit the air bags with the air compressor until the truck is level again. Rides like a dream. Would definitely purchase again. 454972
John - 11/26/2018Good product could use better instructions for installation. Would be better if they placed them as 1.2.3. instead of paragraph sentences. The videos are helpful if they play properly. Took about 3 hours to install. Camping world wanted $150 to install them. 93671
If you truck has a 6 inch lift you might consider using the Firestone Lift Spacers # F2375. This kit is designed to work with kits that mount to the axle on your truck like how the Firestone Ride-Rite # F2250 install.
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Rachael H - 9/5/2014
I have had these air bags for a year now and love them. I own a 2007, 2500 Duramax and I haul a 32' 3 horse trailer with living quarters and the air bags give me a much smoother level ride. I installed them myself with ease ( I did not bleed or lose knuckle skin) and the directions where great. The only thing I wish I would have done is get the air compressor for the bags, but that was due to limited funds at the time but I will be getting the compressor this year. 401764
Excellent product. The installation was very easy, it only took me 45min to bolted on and have it working. The installation video on your website is excellent, very helpful. Thank you to the etrailer team for the excellent service, keep up the good work looking forward to do more business with you. Ps. Sorry didn't take to many pictures. 125547
So far so good. I received the items as ordered. I installed them Saturday morning in the average estimated time of 3 hours. They look great and and working great so far. Pulling 5th wheel this weekend 1,000 miles to Sturgis so we will know more in 2 weeks. Product and instruction video online made this an easy install. One a 1-5 difficulty I’d give this a three. Is you have any mechanical ability you can put these on yourself and save $$$. 855297
This is an excellent system for this vehicle. It has firmed up the ride a bit but it is very pleasing at about 7.5 pounds. I can not wait to hook up to the fifth wheel. It was very straight forward in the work to be performed and for me it is quite rewarding. 798821
Firestone Ride Rite is a wonderful product. This is my second set of ride rites and I have not been disappointed. I will recommend this product to anyone who needs to have their vehicle lifted, 786684
Does the Job nicely. We use on a Kubota RTV 1100 to pull a farm wagon. We would but it again. 770413
product worked great, installed easily and according to the instructions. Couldn't be more pleased. 704850
The Firestone airbags were very easy to install. The only place that I scratched my head was for the torque values for the various hardware. I eventually located it at the end of the instructions. It is common in the better auto repair manuals to list the torque ratings in the drawings. Just an idea. Since I'm somewhat OCD when it comes to mechanical work, I always have a torque wrench in hand for the final tightening. Your instructional videos are a real time saver. Well Done!!! The air tubing cutter worked as advertised. Nice, clean and even cuts every time. 693914
Installed this on a 2004 Chevy 2500 HD in about three hours. All the brackets fit perfectly, and appear to be good and stout. This is a work truck and it is typically hauling about 1000 lbs. in the back. This product really helped the stance and ride of my truck. 615002
Great product! Night and day difference while under tow with a load. 600449
Product works exactly as it should. The instructions were not very good recomend a YouTube video. 540326
Second time I purchase this product , installed them on a 2008 Dodge Ram and now on a 2002 Chevy Silverado. If you follow the instructions you won’t have a hard time , steps need to be followed in order to avoid double work. Great product , took about 3.5 hours to install. 530086
Claude - 07/05/2019This is the second time I have installed this airbag kit on different vehicles. This time I recommended this particular kit for my daughter’s truck. Each time, everything I needed was there, along with easy to read instructions. It only took 3 hours to install the kit this time and had the truck out of the garage. Since I have never had a problem with the kit, I cannot attest to responsiveness of the company for help, but based on the service I received from the sales department I would expect nothing less from service. 522315
Product works very well. Was a very easy plug and play installation. 512967
Product works very well. Was a very easy plug and play installation. 513024
I'm really happy with the air suspension. It's a good product and easy to install. 474980
Shipped on time Product is well made and went together quickly Very satisfied with kit and etrailer Corp 472339
Work well for towing heavy loads - we have a 1200# tongue weight. One side has developed a slow leak that I haven't had time to troubleshoot as yet. 445607
Great product that will give stability when I tow my heavy trailer. Easy to install. The installation video was very helpful. etrailer, as always, shipped in a timely manner. Thanks, Lynn 407328
One side has to be inflated up more often than it should. The other side seems to be OK. When they are both inflated, they support the weight well. My camper weighs over 3300 lbs. It was not an easy installation although it looks like it should be. 397752
Instructions and online video made installation a breeze. 396032
Haven't installed them yet as I'm still recovering from surgery. But have past experience with air bags and love what they do for the truck . These are going on my 2008 chev 3500 drw . We recently traded our tt for a 40 foot 5th wheel . I waited till we had the new camper hitched up to order as I wanted to see how much it made the truck squat which was just 2 inches . But with the condition of a lot of our interstates and highways that's just a little too much . Can't wait to get them on I'm ready to go play . Etrailer service was flawless as usual the order was well packed no damage and arrived on time . 363476
Like it easy to install 360995
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