It takes some finesse & elbow grease including dishwashing liquid & zip-ties to slide the bags into the springs, but if you’re mechanically inclined & persistent it’ll take a couple of hours.
There are YouTube videos from SDTrucksprings & others that take you step by step.
I installed it right before going from Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska,Montana, Calgary, Montana, Colorado, back through Nebraska & on down to Florida. Over 5k miles & it performed admirably through the snow & windstorms along the way. It did ripple a bit from all the crosswinds & the quality is...
I don’t know, I’m not in snow that often. Some of the other guys here live in the snow, maybe they can chime in.
I was surprised how the snow caked up inside the rear wheels though.
I drove up to Calgary & back the week before & it did very well up there too. Memorial & other roads were well maintained, but some of the side roads had packed down accumulation & 4-way stop intersections had 1’ humps of clumped up snow to go over.
The moderators edited my original post. I don’t know why. My original post just says “…into The Badlands” with pics. My intent is to share some pretty pics of a new Mav in a slightly different setting than we usually see, not claiming anything fantastic, but I was impressed with how it handled...
here’s a pic in a Maverick gas station that shows a little bit more of the conditions, but wasn’t anywhere as bad as the unmaintained dirt roads Google had me on on my way here.
That’s correct, there it was about 3” to 4” of snow on the road in the pictures. Once out of Badlands on the southwestern side of it the snow was much thicker & the roads not maintained. In fact Google Maps took me through some very dicey dirt roads with snow that was thicker than the Mav’s 8”...