[trackbird]

I've been driving a Jeep Liberty for a couple years as my daily driver (and I've hated virtually every minute of it). Long story short, a 2105 Silverado crew cab followed me home this weekend (just in time for fireworks, my wife and I are both licensed "Exhibitors Assistants" (pyro techs) for professional shows). Within 12 hours of signing paperwork, we were hauling stuff around the site and driving through in 6" of soft muddy grass (oops). It's a truck, right?

I need a front license plate bracket. My truck came from out of state and what they gave me requires drilling holes in the bumper (I'd rather not due to rust concerns). Is there anything like the SLP bracket for the 4th gens that fits the new trucks?

I'm looking for a roll up (semi rigid/secure) tonneau cover.

Throttle response sucks, so I'm going to need a programmer to fix the throttle feel. I'm not worried about power (it makes enough for now), but the throttle could use some help. It opens really slow and then you start stabbing it to get it to move. I'm not a fan.

Has anybody fixed any of these issues? Tips, tricks or recommended parts?

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[slowTA]

I'm wondering how much of a difference there is in the Z71 vs. the base model shocks. I hear many people complaining about the shocks but I don't really find them annoying and I had 5100s on my previous truck. Either the Ranchos are better or I just don't get it!

[trackbird]

I'm wondering how much of a difference there is in the Z71 vs. the base model shocks. I hear many people complaining about the shocks but I don't really find them annoying and I had 5100s on my previous truck. Either the Ranchos are better or I just don't get it!

I saw a few guys in forums who dumped the Ranchos and pronounced the Bilstiens much better. And there was one guy who had Rancho's and put 5100's for a day (I did 4600 shocks and they seem to be different...potentially) and put something else on his truck the following day and was bitching about the "waste of $640" or whatever he spent to put the Bilstiens on for a few hours. So it's hard to tell without driving them.

I drove a Z71 when I first started looking, but I can't remember how the shocks felt on it. At least not in any detail.

The stock GM shocks have virtually no rebound in them and minimal compression. I think I mentioned that we had 3 people in the cab, a T56, a 20ton shop press, a pair of snow tires and wheels off of a friends 2004 half ton and some "stuff" (washer fluid, things he removed from his truck to take it to service) in the bed and the back end just cycled up and down the entire way to drop off the contents of the bed. It just did a slow "pogo" down the freeway, like waves rolling in. Boing, boing, boing......

The stock shocks on mine made the factory F-body DeCarbon shocks look like Konis....they were even worse than the OEM F-body shocks by a decent margin.

Today I noticed that when I put the transmission in gear, the body no longer rocks back and fourth from the "jolt" of it dropping into gear....if that tells you something. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)