it appears I am fucked on the ridetech air ride controller... The VERY VERY VERY last thing I had to do on my list was to program the air ride height presets before I took it for an alignment. This is important because you have the alignment done on preset #2 and this is normally as simple as getting it to the height you want and then holding down preset 1/2/3 for 5 secs and it programs. The problem is that I had to move 2 of my ride height sensors because the larger wheels would rub them on full turn. This changed the height sensor readings a little and I have never reprogrammed them because it wasn't on the road. Last night I went to go program the settings and it gave me an error about cross psi overloaded or some bs and would not program. I tried to rerun the initial set up to reprogram everything and it locks up and never starts it. Last week I wanted to turn the option off where when you power it up it automatically goes to preset #2 but I wasn't able to. Every time I changed it, and exited the menu it would turn it back on automatically. I called ridetech and talked to them an they said that the version 13 software that is on mine was known to be a bit buggy and also didn't like to be reflashed or updated... At that time it wasn't a deal breaker that I could not turn the #2 on power option off, but now that I can't reprogram the ride height settings I really have no accurate way to get back to the same height so I can drive it after I control it to get it close enough with the only penalty being that I will chew through "19 tires which is a pretty cheap option. When I talked to them last week they said they could give me a deal on a new control system(still not cheap) but the new one uses your phone as a display and then you have button that goes in the cig lighter for the presets. Now knowing that they could not make a hardwired display that could be upgraded/reprogrammed I have no faith that using my phone as display would leave me in any different situation another 5-6 yrs down the road knowing how often I drop and upgrade my phone and that the support for upgrades on these will eventually end. This would also mean I would need to figure out a way to fill the hole in the overhead console I installed and flush mounted the display into and that does not make me happy.
It looks like I have a nice ridetech paperweight that if I use it will make lots of rubber tire paper weights. The idea of having to tear out the old system and then try to integrate the ridetech sensors into a different system or rerunning all that fucking wiring, making the display pretty as well as paying an arm and a leg for another system is not how I wanted to spend the holiday weekend but its where I am at. If anyone wants a ridetech hoodey and hat let me know there is no way I am gonna sport their stuff anymore no matter if they are local to me or not. Fuck I would even need to repaint my tank to get the ridetech logo off fuck fuck fuck....
hooking up the intake
