What is KDSS, and do I have it?

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It’s such a common question that someone with a Toyota 4Runner, Prado or Landcruiser and Lexus GX470 or GX460 asks all the time, so I made a quick video to show visually what KDSS is, how to recognize it, and where the valve block is that may need to be opened when doing a suspension install, or for helping to level a vehicle after a suspension install is complete. This is very common for people to say “my car is leaning 1″ to one side after I finished my install and I don’t know what’s wrong”. That’s a hydraulic lean.

For information about KDSS, this explains it better than I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_Dynamic_Suspension_System

Here’s my video link:

Common instructions, including information about KDSS, is all on my instructions page on this website, here: https://exitoffroad.com/instructions/

Hopefully this brief posting will teach you what you need to know about KDSS, and so that you can spot it on your vehicle to determine if you’ll have extra steps involved during installation, whether you’ll be limited in rear lift height due to KDSS (nothing over 2.5″ is recommended), and also how the system works!!


Thanks for reading. -Mike at Exit Offroad.

Oh, bonus video link, showing a bad lean after suspension installation with KDSS: