New 2019 owner and questions on bumpy ride quaility

[special K]

I reset mine to 38 front and 36 rear, I am thinking of dropping mine down to 36 and 34, just don't want to have a low tire light come on. Seems to ride a little better than when I was at 42, but I need to drive it more. just trying to get a softer city setting.

 

[quikag]

So, same deal here. 15 year half ton Silverado/Sierra owner mostly with the great 6.2 engine. Just loafing around town my old ‘18 Sierra half ton 6.2 actually seemed a touch smoother, quieter, and basically drove a little more like a car, a car that could tow 10k+ lbs.

Anyway, my new ‘19 Raptor is a badass truck no doubt, but the 13-14” of suspension travel is a bit stiffer than I expected. The electronic fox shocks keep things a bit stiffer around town for better vehicle control. When you hit a big bump or pothole you get a lot of compliance and it feels really good, but then it stiffens back up a fair bit when hitting normal payment roughness.

All said, I like the set-up overall as I don’t want a pillowy, floppy mess with a blown shocks feeling, but it is a bit “rougher” riding than I initially expected after hearing for years how the Raptor is like driving a nice Lincoln Continental pillow down the road.

Only other thing, I’m not a huge fan of is the engine sound/fake engine speaker sound. It’s okay, but it’s not 6.2 Ecotec V8 sound with intake and exhaust by a long shot.

Rest of the Raptor is definitely superior to the GM truck. I’m happy overall.

 

[10851vc]

One time mine jumped 2 lanes over

 

[LVsFINEST]

Tire pressure really helps. Copy/paste from another thread:

Instructors at Raptor assault asked the group "how many of you have the rear end kick out on bumps in normal everyday driving?". The majority of the class answered back w/ resounding yes and then they simply said, your PSI is too high in the rear.

We had a good discussion on tire psi. Here's my notes from the class:
-Raptors ship from factory at 48psi and should be aired down by the dealership upon delivery (which never happens)
-Ford procedure document state 36psi all around
-The instructors prefer 38f and 34r psi for normal driving
-Ford engineers prefer 34f/28r psi for off road driving WITH highway driving
-Ford engineers prefer 28f/22r psi for pure off road driving (no highway at all)

 

[John Butler]

35 all around

 

[ZMan]

I’ve been running my air pressure higher around 43 to try to get a more car like ride because I feel the truck is too squishy feeling compared to mine thousand 15 F150 limited off-road edition.My question is should I change to the NATO grapplers are they that much better feeling than the bridge tones? Or do I really need to go to a 20 wheel and tire to get a more street like F150 ride.
because my 2015 F150 had 20s and it drove much nicer in the road ,like a Ford expedition.
and if so what’s the opinions out there on how that look on this truck.
And the main question about switching tire sizes is :
Is it the 18 tire size or tire brand that are really what’s making the truck feel squishy or is it expensive suspension that I paid for to go off road which most of us don’t do much.
Love the look and features just want it more street-able.

 

[special K]

So, same deal here. 15 year half ton Silverado/Sierra owner mostly with the great 6.2 engine. Just loafing around town my old ‘18 Sierra half ton 6.2 actually seemed a touch smoother, quieter, and basically drove a little more like a car, a car that could tow 10k+ lbs.

Anyway, my new ‘19 Raptor is a badass truck no doubt, but the 13-14” of suspension travel is a bit stiffer than I expected. The electronic fox shocks keep things a bit stiffer around town for better vehicle control. When you hit a big bump or pothole you get a lot of compliance and it feels really good, but then it stiffens back up a fair bit when hitting normal payment roughness.

All said, I like the set-up overall as I don’t want a pillowy, floppy mess with a blown shocks feeling, but it is a bit “rougher” riding than I initially expected after hearing for years how the Raptor is like driving a nice Lincoln Continental pillow down the road.

Only other thing, I’m not a huge fan of is the engine sound/fake engine speaker sound. It’s okay, but it’s not 6.2 Ecotec V8 sound with intake and exhaust by a long shot.

Rest of the Raptor is definitely superior to the GM truck. I’m happy overall.

Why don't you get the FORscan tool and remove the sound?

 

[NASSTY]

Tire pressure really helps. Copy/paste from another thread:

Instructors at Raptor assault asked the group "how many of you have the rear end kick out on bumps in normal everyday driving?". The majority of the class answered back w/ resounding yes and then they simply said, your PSI is too high in the rear.

My 2017 Raptor doesn't do the rear end kick out thing nearly as bad as my 2011 and 2014 FX4s did with the factory 20" rims.

 

[lateralis]

Do all 2019 Raptors come with the Live Valve Shocks or can that option be deleted?

All '19 raptors and probably the new '20s have it and it is not an option that you can delete from the factory. You should be able to direct bolt on the previous model year shocks but you need this https://www.rpgoffroad.com/product/2019-up-raptor-live-valve-bypass-did/ so that you can run them or after market dampers. Not sure if anyone else makes a work around like this so it's probably your only option at this point in time.

 

[Loufish]

I’ve been running my air pressure higher around 43 to try to get a more car like ride because I feel the truck is too squishy feeling compared to mine thousand 15 F150 limited off-road edition.My question is should I change to the NATO grapplers are they that much better feeling than the bridge tones? Or do I really need to go to a 20 wheel and tire to get a more street like F150 ride.
because my 2015 F150 had 20s and it drove much nicer in the road ,like a Ford expedition.

Uh...What?...You bought an off road truck with suspension designed for real off roading, not like your other F150 with off road stickers...When you almost double the amount of wheel travel, it gets softer because it now has much more time to absorb bumps and such...The tire/wheel package is also designed to provide a compliant ride off road...it has 17" wheels so the tires have plenty of sidewall....A true mid/long travel truck is never going to ride like some street tuned truck..unless you decide to **** it all up in search of that street sport truck handling...in which case you bought THE WRONG TRUCK....

..It's nothing personal at all, but a fair amount of people seem to buy this truck without doing a shred of homework, and then are disappointed because it won't tow that much, rides kind of mushy, the front seat only holds 2 people, the list goes on....