Airbags - Boss v Firestone

I will be honest, I know nothing about Boss wasn't aware of the name/brand until I read your post.
I have fitted the Firestone air bags to my last four (4) Landcruisers. I have been 100% happy with my purchases & their performance.
I purchased all of the kits through www.michigantrucksprings.com delivery takes less than a week & are around half the price u pay for them here. Warranty has never been an issue as I have never had a problem..... just my experience AND I have no association this company

I had Firestone on my previous vehicle..no problems at all

I have fitted BOSS this time on new vehicle (LC79 5 years ago) still going strong ...no problems either.

The reason I decided on BOSS was basically at the time I was under the understanding that BOSS could be used with no air pressure in them (if that issue ever arose) whereas the Firestone warned about under inflation or the vehicle being jacked up with the suspension hanging.

BOSS assured me that the above Firestone warnings did not apply to their product.

I do recall that BOSS were quite tardy in any attempt to communicate with them back then...doesn't seem like that has changed....except when you order and spend a $...pretty quick then :)

Remember what you have read was written by the advertising department and may have no relationship to reality....advertising spiel has little or no technical merit.

While the boss spiel is impressive....there is a technical and legal term for that sort of stuff..."puffery"...."I'm the best, I'm marvelous and everybody else is inferiour".
Sorry its nothing more than a cockrel strutting around feathers puffed up and chest pushed out.

They are claims and assertions that for good or bad the vast majority of customers will not test....and they know it.

As for warranty.....length of warranty is no indicator of quality....many top quality, market leading products have short warranties, while many cheap nasty unreliable items have very long warranties.....because they need to have a long warranty to placate the customer's well founded concerns of failure.

The truth of the matter is that regardless of quality, most genuinely warrantable claims will be in the first year of use.....the second year of warranty is pretty cheap to provide, the third even cheaper and so on.....by the fifth year the majory of users will have sold or discared the product, forgotten about the warranty or lost the required documents for a claim.
Remember most warranty .....all that is warranted is workmanship and materials.......by the time 3 years rolls around most failures will be from fair wear & tear, accidental damage or abuse........sucessfull and valid claims on long warranties are a rare thing indeed.
Believe me the manufacturers know this.

SO if you want to make a fair and usefull evaluation you need to look further into the various products.

NOW if you want an eye opener...pick up any of the trucking magazines, look at the diesel parts fliers or on line and you will see how little truckies are paying for very good air bags that carry about 10 tonnes a piece.......then you will see how the $WD business is having a lend of us big time.

cheers

Hi Rod,
2 x100 series & 2x 200 series have a look at www.lcool.org free to join or go to www.michigantrucksprings.com & have a look there.....I think u will have more joy if u do a search on LC site to find the correct kit for ur series...... Then go to www.michigantrucksprings.com to order product :-)