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k44 previously said:

So you never drove out of an alley, down a driveway, onto a road where the front suspension contacted the rubber bump stops??

If somebody asked me that question, I wouldn't know the answer. Makes me want to have a sensor on the rubber bump stops. And some strain gages on the inner fenders in the rips/bulges area.

Well, after 2 4runners and a Tacoma in my past, I feel like I have a good sense of what "full compression" means and feels like. For instance, driving unreasonably fast on a backroad in the Kofa NWR in Arizona, I found my Tacoma 4 wheels in the air, followed by absolute, total, full compression on landing. And this is with factory suspension! No evident damage.

In the FJ: yes, I've had it offroad, did most all the designated runs in Ouray, for instance, played in the mud, snow, dirt...but even around town where there are lots of speed bumps, or on the highway, where one comes upon uneven asphalt, or pulling into my driveway (hard left into a dip then up the sidewalk into the driveway) even at some speed, I can't say I've encountered "full compression". Keep in mind I'm running OME heavies front and rear.