Air Shocks

Well......not really. Using the air shocks to level a car out with a heavy load that it probably was not designed to carry puts more load than "just raising the car, because it has the weight of the car, PLUS the load pushing down.

That said, I'm not condemning air shocks. Tons of them have been used over time quite successfully. But IMO, if they are used as intended, to level out heavy loads, it should be only temporary and not something done all the time. The repeated use in that situation is what will beat the shock mounts all to pieces.

Totally right. Using them to raise the rear of an unloaded car puts more weight on the front so it actually takes weight off the rear.

You can get away with it if the load isn’t too crazy, but do it long enough and stuff will break. And even if it doesn’t , it isn’t a performance thing.

And here we are again. Can’t we agree to disagree? Why does it have to be one way or another. Fortunately we all have a choice on the subject.

Run whatever you like, I don’t care.

But the physics are pretty clear, and for performance air shocks suck. That’s not an opinion, there are plenty of ways to test and prove that.