OME Suspension Service Life

CA-RJ

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I've never actually owned a lifted vehicle long enough to replace worn out components, so forgive my newbie question.

How many miles should my OME shocks last? I'm currently at 75k miles.
 

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While a cut & dry number would be convenient, it will have far more to do with the type of life and maintenance the parts have seen. Shocks can easily hit the 100k mark. I just swapped a set of shocks on my old Tacoma that were ~100k old with very, very hard miles between the owners. I've got local customers that have 10+ year old OME suspensions on daily drivers (Jason Day for you local guys), can't beat that.

Just to give you an answer, at 100k I would start planning to replace.
 

AlexJet

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While a cut & dry number would be convenient, it will have far more to do with the type of life and maintenance the parts have seen. Shocks can easily hit the 100k mark. I just swapped a set of shocks on my old Tacoma that were ~100k old with very, very hard miles between the owners. I've got local customers that have 10+ year old OME suspensions on daily drivers (Jason Day for you local guys), can't beat that.

Just to give you an answer, at 100k I would start planning to replace.

I'd agree with you 5 years of 20k a month, so at 100'000km (65'000mi) I'd replace them. This does not means you have too, you may have another 50k on them, but I'd do as a maintenance service.
In my personal case I come up with some mods which envolves parts replacement way before they are out of their service life, so I'm not worrying about running out of the lifespan of parts...
 

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