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Which has KDSS?

Discussion in 'Suspension' started by WannaHelp, Mar 14, 2024.

  1. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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    WannaHelp

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    Hi!20240314_113339.jpg
    20240314_114058.jpg 20240314_113846.jpg Can anyone tell me if any of these 4runners has kdss?

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  2. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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    Crikeymike

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    That doesn't have kdss. It has a regular sway bar with regular links, no hydraulic ram in site.
     
  3. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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    That's 3 different ones. None of them have kdss?
     
  4. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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    Nope..


    Here's a pic of KDSS sway bar from one of my videos -
    Front -
    upload_2024-3-14_11-26-46.png

    Rear -
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  5. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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    Nope.

    It has a regular sway bar with regular links, no hydraulic ram in site. They're all the same

    Since you're looking at new models, look at the sticker. KDSS adds $2500-3000 last time I looked.
     
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  6. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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    You are a gentleman and scholar. I really appreciate you taking time out if tour day to help me out. Have a good one!
     
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  7. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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    It is only $1,700 extra.
     
  8. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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    The easiest way to tell for a layman is to look at the skid plate, it looks different and hangs lower.
     
  9. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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    KDSS is worth every cent of that $1,700

    20240210_114755.jpg 20240210_143107.jpg 20240212_204421.jpg 20240312_115512.jpg 20240312_115521.jpg
     
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  10. Mar 14, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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    This is KDSS. Look at the clamp, easy to tell

    20240314_105513.jpg
     
  11. Mar 14, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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    Hey OP
    Yes sir as folks said, none of those are KDSS
    @Yotaholic does KDSS stand for killer dope suspension stuff
     
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  12. Mar 14, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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    I found a place, 4.88 and e locker, all for $3,400 :)
     
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  13. Mar 14, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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  14. Mar 14, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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    I came out just for you, OP! It is a sunny day though :p

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  15. Mar 14, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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    When I was first shopping around I had no idea. Neither did the salesmen. The easiest thing to look for is where the sway bar attached - to the spindle or to the lower control arm. With KDSS it attaches to the lower control arm.
     
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  16. Mar 14, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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    Yotaholic, you are awesome! Thank you so much for taking the time to do that for me. I appreciate it a whole lot. I can definitely see the difference now. You've helped me alot.
     
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    I am the sales lady! I have a few different customers looking for it and I want to be able to help them to the best of my abilities. I'm really new to this and I want to be different than the people that say, "Oh yeah, I have what you want, come on down." Then come to find out they were full of crap. When I tell my customer I have what they want or don't, I'm going to make sure its the truth. This job post needs some honesty brought to it. Too many lie and cheat so I'm here to change the name of the game!
     
  18. Mar 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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    Good for you, sales lady of the year for this!
    (I had no idea what KDSS was either when I bought new, the sales person definitely did not know a wack of things)
     
  19. Mar 14, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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    I bought it for it's on road manners. But days later when I crawled under the truck and saw it, and coming from the Jeep world, I immediately understood what it would do off-road. It's just a sway bar disconnect with a different mechanism.
     
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  20. Mar 14, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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    I did not know what kdss was either when I bought my 4Runner, Sales person didn’t know either, so I thought it was an upgraded suspension package(shocks & struts). Did more research when I got home and found out it was some kind of hydraulic sway bar system.
     
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    Gather round your Salesperson friends and have a learn.

     
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