Twisties
Test Drive
- Location
- Cortez, CO
Just got it yesterday in Denver and drove it home to Cortez. It's not handling well on mountain highways. Feels tippy wobbly on turn entry, but will more or less stabilize once the suspension is set in the curve. Appears to have oem Bilsteins and 110,000 miles. So, since I certainly need to correct this, I'd like figure out any suspensions modifications/upgrades and do it all at once.
We bought it primarily for use on the Xterra trails (I suppose we don't say Jeep trails here, do we?). We have a lot of them in the area. We're not so much off roaders as we are hikers and photographers, and car campers, but we will drive places like the Alpine Loop/Engineer Pass and Imogene Pass fairly regularly. They are in our back yard. So, hopefully we can get a capable and reasonably comfortable ride on the Xterra trails.
Obviously, the machine has to travel mountain highways to get to the trails, and in some cases it could be a road trip vehicle. So, I'd appreciate a more controlled ride and better handling on the highways, too. I'm definitely not interested in doing anything that impairs highway driving.
I haven't had it off highway yet, and don't know the first thing about what I need. Lift? Shocks? Springs? Once I have a correction/upgrade plan I'll need help finding DIY instructions, or if there are things I shouldn't be doing myself, I'll need to know that too.
I have basic tools, sockets, torque wrenches, etc and do my own motorcycle maintenance, but this would be first time working on a thing like this (trying not to say "car." )
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
We bought it primarily for use on the Xterra trails (I suppose we don't say Jeep trails here, do we?). We have a lot of them in the area. We're not so much off roaders as we are hikers and photographers, and car campers, but we will drive places like the Alpine Loop/Engineer Pass and Imogene Pass fairly regularly. They are in our back yard. So, hopefully we can get a capable and reasonably comfortable ride on the Xterra trails.
Obviously, the machine has to travel mountain highways to get to the trails, and in some cases it could be a road trip vehicle. So, I'd appreciate a more controlled ride and better handling on the highways, too. I'm definitely not interested in doing anything that impairs highway driving.
I haven't had it off highway yet, and don't know the first thing about what I need. Lift? Shocks? Springs? Once I have a correction/upgrade plan I'll need help finding DIY instructions, or if there are things I shouldn't be doing myself, I'll need to know that too.
I have basic tools, sockets, torque wrenches, etc and do my own motorcycle maintenance, but this would be first time working on a thing like this (trying not to say "car." )
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
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