BOSS Air Suspension: Australia’s Best Off-Roading Suspension Systems

If you’ve ever towed a heavy trailer or driven with a heavy load, then you’ve probably wondered whether the job might have been easier if you’d had air bags installed on your vehicle. Even the suspensions on heavy-duty vehicles need help occasionally, and that’s precisely what air bags are for.

Air bags allow you to raise or stiffen your vehicle’s suspension which, when driving with a heavy or poorly balanced load, can help make your steering and braking more stable and predictable. They can also save you a load of headaches on perfectly avoidable mechanical problems like unnecessary tyre and wheel bearing wear.

If you haven’t already looked into what air bags could do for your ride quality, reliability, and even comfort, now is the time to give them some serious thought. And once you’ve weighed the benefits, you’ll want to consider what a BOSS-engineered suspension can do for you.

Australia’s Benchmark Airbags for Optimum Ride Control

For more than 20 years, BOSS has been Australia’s leading aftermarket manufacturer of benchmark airbag suspensions and ride control systems, and they’ve successfully elevated air-ride into an art form. Their air suspension lineup includes kits for everything from slammed customs and mini-trucks, to purpose-built trailer suspensions, but it’s ride components for everyday cars and trucks that they do best.

Starting with their proprietary blended, ballistic woven rubber bellows, BOSS suspension air bags are the strongest in the industry, and are available in single-, double-, and triple-bellow configurations. They’re the heart of every system that BOSS produces, and these heavy-duty, seamless bellows are moulded with high tensile steel belted reinforcements at their neck and bead ring sections, and boast:

·   Paired capacity ratings up to 5200lbs;

·   6mm forged ring and stamped top plate assemblies;

·   A recommended working pressure of 5 – 160psi;

·   An independent test pressure of 480psi; and,

·   A burst pressure of over 1,000psi.

Formed using an all-natural curing process that guarantees a tough, consistent thickness, these multi-strand bellows are the starting point for all BOSS load assist and bag-over-strut airbag suspension configurations. And you only have to look at how they’re used to understand why when it comes to the most durable suspension air bags, Australia looks to BOSS systems.

Airbags That You Can Trust to Take You Off-Roading

Avid off-roaders are always in search of as much extra ground clearance as they can get. But while it’s easy to gain 50mm – 75mm with taller tyres and a lift kit, what’s sacrificing in ride quality and poor handling doesn’t always add up to a fair compromise. This is where you can trust high-quality load-assisting rear suspension airbags to step in and do the job that OE equipment isn’t designed to do.

Custom kits with driver specified load assisted air suspension air bags typically include:

·   2 airbag bellows;

·   4 mounting brackets (2 upper and 2 lower); and,

·   SAE J844 airlines and Schrader valves.

Complete with mounting hardware and fasteners, these premium quality suspension airbag kits are designed to:

·   Increase rear ground clearance during vehicle articulation;

·   Reduce the punishing stress on shock absorbers and other lift components; and,

·   Limit the downward compression on impacts that could damage the vehicle.

BOSS even makes a rear coil delete / air bag suspension replacement kit for Y62 Nissans with independent rear suspensions that are particularly prone to tyre scrubbing when off-roading or carrying heavy loads.

Letting Airbags Level Out the Weight of Heavy Loads and Trailers

Let’s be honest: while not all 4WD owners are off-roaders, most won’t hesitate to load up the ute or SUV with gear, hitch up a caravan or trailer, and drive the family to the beach or the mountains for a holiday. However, the extra weight, and possibly the difference between the height of the towbar and the trailer hitch, can make a vehicle unstable enough that driving becomes precarious at best, and potentially dangerous at worse.

In these situations, the same load-assisted BOSS airbag suspension kits are going to be especially effective at:

·   Reducing stress on shock absorbers and springs when carrying or towing heavy loads;

·   Improving the vehicle’s steering and braking stability; and,

·   Eliminating the risk of trailer frame or rear end damage due to bottoming out.

Make no mistake: installing new air bags for suspension won’t increase the weight that a vehicle is permitted to carry or tow. Airbags do, however, give drivers the ability to fine-tune their suspensions to either the conditions of the road or the state of their vehicle; and that’s not just a privilege reserved strictly for 4WD owners.

A large number of 2WD owners can buy airbag suspension components online for their vehicles too, and BOSS has seen to it that their quality and reliability are just as good as that of their off-road counterparts. After all, air suspension isn’t just about rough roads and heavy loads: it’s also about performance.

Bag-Over Strut Airbag Kits That Ride Like the Wind

BOSS bag-over strut car suspension air bags are designed for the widest possible range of cars and trucks in Australia that can benefit from the advantages of air suspension for everyday use. In fact, these suspension kits combine all the best qualities of BOSS kits together to optimize ride handling in ways that even high-end, factory air-ride suspensions aren’t able to do.

Premium engineered bag-over strut suspension air bag kits typically include:

·   Complete front and rear air suspension struts and bellows bags;

·   High-performance shock absorbers; and,

·   Threaded and adjustable shock mounts.

Along with all the necessary installation hardware, there’s no absence of excellence with these high-quality suspension air bags for sale, and they’re unparalleled at:

·   Producing a smoother, more comfortable ride when driving over poor-quality roads;

·   Delivering a more stable ride when driving at higher speeds; and,

·   Preventing unwanted tyre, brake, and wheel bearing wear at all times.

BOSS Bag-over strut kits are at the top of the list when it comes to Australian air bag suspension systems; and their own custom lineup of air compressors, dryers, and height control systems help to make sure that they stay that way.

The Final Word

At the end of the day, factory suspension systems are only designed to withstand so much. They have their limits. And repeatedly testing those limits by taking to the toughest tracks and pulling the heaviest loads without adequate load assistance will eventually result in a host of costly parts failures that could have easily been avoided.

Top-quality BOSS airbag suspensions and ride control systems are the comprehensive solutions for suspension system shortfalls. They have everything that’s needed to transform any standard factory suspension into a performance-minded system that’s safer and more reliable than ever.