2025 AWD Hybrid Lift Kit?

[Head Surgeon]

If the Lift is only an inch the effects should be limited. I'm not certain if the Tremor axles are a different part number or not. There seems to be a consensus on this board that they are different. Depends somewhat where the lift is installed. If it is on top of the strut, the body is lifted, but the suspension travel remains the same and the geometry should not change much. This does not increase ground clearance without larger dia. tires. The main change is likely the tie rod angle from the rack to the spindle. This can cause bump steer. 2.5" is a bit aggressive. The kit relocates the swaybar bushings but does not do much if anything for the steering tie rods. The suspension travel that I found for the Maverick is around 8" total, so if evenly split that is 4"compression and 4" extension. A 2.5" lift is going the change that angle a bunch. I am assuming that the rack is attached to the body, as is common, and the suspension is on a subframe that does not move when the body is raised. If it were me, I would try and drive a Maverick with the kit in it and drive it over various bumps and see if the bump steer is acceptable to you.

That is best I can do for you. I have not raised my Mav and have no plans to do so.

BP

Thanks Bob!! very helpful. I think I am going take your advice and hold off. For now anyway. You make great points and I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze as they say.

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[Roughwater]

I am also getting a 2025 Hybrid AWD and I think I am going to have these installed on it. I know they are for the eco boost AWD, but I think they should fit the Hybrid AWD as well. https://eibach.com/product/E30-35-057-01-22?epsid=2928

Hi, Did you go through with this plan and if so How did it work out? I had a 23 FX4 and used that same lift kit. Eibach says it will also work for my 26 AWD Hybrid. I probably had that lift on my FX4 for 20K miles and no problems. So right now for me it's between that lift and the Bilstein lift. Both offer about a 2" lift.

 

[Roughwater]

I have a '25 Maverick Lariat AWD Hybrid coming in, hopefully by next week; I will not be raising it. As a former Ford Mechanic I do not see any advantage to lifting/lowering vehicles. Every time you do this you change suspension geometry, never for the good in my experience. Bump steer is the most noticeable, you excellerate, car goes one way, brake and it goes another, hit a bump and it is just a guess. Driveshaft U-Joint wear is another problem. With conventional truck drivelines you have to rotate the pinion angle to align the driveshaft properly to prevent blowing U-Joints. Early Toyota Tacomas blew U-Joints almost weekly when raised. All this is mostly for looks, as without changing tire diameter there is no ground clearance increase. Yes the front and rear departure angles change somewhat and you may be able to put a larger diameter tire in. Larger diameter tires however add to the stress on the driveline U-Joints if not changing rear axle ratios. Doing this right gets very expensive very quickly. My two bits worth, but despite widely held opinions, the engineers really do know what they are doing. The Maverick Tremor is up about an inch, would be interesting to see what they did to accomplish this.

Bob

Hi Bob I suspect you are correct about the Mechanics of lifting. However, the problem is that the Maverick has a pretty low front end and if you do much off roading you can sustain damage to your vehicle if it is Not lifted not to mention a greater chance of getting stuck. So your dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. I would sooner lift a little and risk the chance that lifing will damage my vehicle personally speaking;. I would sooner not have to lift my truck so will likely do more of a leveling lift myself. I have bought the Rival skid plate and the exaust plate but the truck really does need to come up a little higher even so. I stayed with the same size tires but went to all Terrain tire all be it a light one (Pirelli Scorpion AT+) tire which has good road manners and doesn't seem to hurt my overall great mileage but will be much better off road than my Continentals. The Pirelli's being the same size don't require any odometer adjustment either. I'm not lifting for looks, I'm doing it out of necessity.

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