Want to soften my ride on the road

[WILDHOBO]

Sorry new at this whole thing. This is the vehicle. Got it in September and trying to figure out what my best move is fora lift that will help appearance and road riding without breaking the bank

Those are 17” wheels. No question. And the tires are not 12.5 wide. They look to be around 10.something wide. The wheels are from quadratec.

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[Labswine]

I dunno...I like the ride on my stock Overland. I think it rides nicer than my '19 Grand Cherokee Ltd., and the seats are more comfortable too.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I dunno...I like the ride on my stock Overland. I think it rides nicer than my '19 Grand Cherokee Ltd., and the seats are more comfortable too.

I agree.
Compare a 2020 Overland or a 2022 Overland to a 2018 or 2021 Grand Cherokee Limited, and although the GC beats the JT in some areas of ride, over-all, pavement shifts, tracks and so on - the JT does better. And I can ride longer in the JT seats than I could in my wife's 2018 GC although for some reason the 2021 Grand Cherokee seats felt softer, easier to ride in than the 2018 seats. The seats in the '18 WK were still feeling like the foam was hard and the leather ungiving.
The stock ride of the JT Overland is hard to beat - and that's why I wanted springs up front that would help keep that ride. Obviously, it's not identical, but it's still very nice.
Good enough the JT is a daily driver.
I think part of the issue is wheelbase. The JLU even has a longer wheelbase than the 2 row Grand Cherokee by almost 2" (NOT counting the longer Grand Cherokee L version).
And the JT even more than that so the long wheelbase evens the ride out compared to a short vehicle.

 

[Oilburner]

I’ve heard the Mopar lift rides better than stock.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I’ve heard the Mopar lift rides better than stock.

I'd bet that depends on what the lift goes on........ since they all have different springs/rates, etc.

 

[Wet Willys]

I would love to soften the ride on mine. Clayton 2.5" overland plus lift with 1" level spacer up front, Fox 2.0's, Yokohama 37" A/T's at 28-30 psi. Handles dips and such fine, just the chatter bumps are pretty rough. I've been thinking about upgrading shocks but I'm not sure I want to spend ~$2000 or more.

 

[WILDHOBO]

I would love to soften the ride on mine. Clayton 2.5" overland plus lift with 1" level spacer up front, Fox 2.0's, Yokohama 37" A/T's at 28-30 psi. Handles dips and such fine, just the chatter bumps are pretty rough. I've been thinking about upgrading shocks but I'm not sure I want to spend ~$2000 or more.

I’m with you. I have fox 2.0’s and everything is fantastic, except for washboard, which is terrible. But shocks are expensive.

 

[steveorama]

@Murray
Do you actually want a "softer ride" or a more "controlled ride"? Softer isn't necessarily better.

I had a great ride with my stock Overland setup and it wasn't until I switched over to Rubi spring/shock takeoffs that I realized how different the two setups were. The Rubi springs are stiffer than the Overland/Sport, but have very soft shocks. I recently switched over to Eibach Pro-truck shocks and it's made an incredible difference and much closer to the ride I had before with the Overland stock setup. The Eibach springs are much firmer dampened than the Rubi Fox shocks and that helps a lot with the recoil you feel from bumps small and large. I think you may actually be looking for something similar vs "softer".

 

[JustinLentz]

You're going to have to pay for a quality shock/ride experience along with some experimentation. Pay attention to the price of the shock. It will tell you a lot about the quality, time spent on design and man hours spent in testing this shock (in most cases).

In my younger years, I tried to do the budget thing and tried out tons of the cheaper shocks when I should have listened to my elders and paid for a quality set up front. I had a YJ at the time and obviously these had leaf springs. Unhappy with how terrible this thing rode on the highway I tried... BDS, Skyjacker, Rubicon Express, Rough Country and Rancho. They were all just fine but all seemed to achieve the same ride. Remember, this was on a leaf spring set up. Jeep was super light. 4cyl, no back seat, none of the modern components of today. The only shocks that I could find that I could actually feel the difference on the Jeep was the Old Man EMU. I doubt these would have achieved the same ride quality on out JT's but someone has already done that testing (I hope) within the Jeep Engineers to achieve the best ride for each set up.

I've owned a 73 CJ, 95 YJ, 97 TJ, 2009 JK and a 1999 Grand Cherokee... my Mojave is the best quality ride from the factory of all of them. Just my .02

 

[gregf]

Sorry new at this whole thing. This is the vehicle. Got it in September and trying to figure out what my best move is fora lift that will help appearance and road riding without breaking the bank

what tires are those and do you like them? looking for highway tires?

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