Overtrail AVS Compatible Suspension Systems (3 Viewers)

[maringx550]

Any know whether ICON or others are working on an AVS-compatible suspension system?

 

[Bluegill]

That's kind of a contradiction. To be AVS-compatible would mean that you would keep the AVS-equipped shocks which means that it wouldn't be a "suspension system." Kind of like the Westcott Designs pre-load collar lifts that many of us have installed. It's not a suspension system per se, it's a way to get a bit of lift out of the stock suspension system. Like most things, it has some benefits and some compromises.

 

[48Njim]

For me, AVS-compatible would be using aftermarket shocks without error codes or warning light on the dash. Is that a thing?

 

[DJ’s Sled]

I think I understood MarinGX550 to mean some future aftermarket ‘plug-and-play’ front struts and rear shocks that:

• could accept the (current/future) factory AVS wiring at each corner;
• would have the internal design, guts, valving, actuators, etc..to respond to the commands from the Drive Mode dial;
• which implies, likely, that the AVS software, firmware could be mod’d to accommodate the new higher performing equipment at each corner;
• and all the systems that normally interface with an active, in-service AVS could (if necessary) also be reprogrammed as required.

I sure haven’t heard of anyone going down that path. But it would be really interesting if it happened!

 

[lowrange44]

That's kind of a contradiction. To be AVS-compatible would mean that you would keep the AVS-equipped shocks which means that it wouldn't be a "suspension system." Kind of like the Westcott Designs pre-load collar lifts that many of us have installed. It's not a suspension system per se, it's a way to get a bit of lift out of the stock suspension system. Like most things, it has some benefits and some compromises.

I think the idea is that an aftermarket suspension manufacturer like Icon of King could develop an electronically adjustable coil over that would be a plug and play replacement and still work with the AVS ecu

 

[maringx550]

That’s exactly the idea. I thought I read somewhere that ICON was working on something along these lines, but haven’t been able to find it again. May just be my wishful thinking, but doesn’t sound it would be that difficult given the ICON CDEV system does more or less the same thing (at least as I understand it).