- Test, test. One, two, one.
- [Man] Good.
- Testing. - [Man] Good.
- Testing. - [Man] You're good!
- (laughs)
- [Man] I can hear you!
- Is this thing on?
- What's up guys?
Cody here, back again to get ya some history
on stuff that you probably didn't know of,
and nobody else here knows anything about it
because they haven't touched a ten mil in their life,
but since we're talking about trucks,
we're gonna have to use American version of measurement.
Half inch? Three quarter inch?
- No, trucks are metric.
- Oh, are they really?
- Yeah, they're actually all 13 millimeter, not ten.
- So, even American's use the metric,
even American trucks use the metric system?
- Right, 'cause they're not built in America.
- See? That's why cars are better.
- (inhales)
What up guys?
I'm Cody with Custom Offsets.
I am back again to get you some history and learnin',
and this time it is going to be
on arguably the number one lift kit brand
in the game right now, BDS Suspension.
So, unless you've been living under a rock,
you've seen this name everywhere lately
when it comes to lifted trucks.
But who are they, where did they come from,
and what the hell does BDS even stand for?
We're gonna tell ya.
So to get started on the BDS story,
we need to travel back in time to a magical place
where mullets and square body Chevys were plentiful
and reigned supreme, the mid '80s.
So back then in small town in Michigan called Coldwater,
there was a relatively small,
prominent in the industry,
off road shop called Sport Truck USA.
Well, they sold all sorts of cool truck accessories
like the chrome step bars,
the KC lights, Super Swampers,
everything that was cool at the time
on top of a lift kit.
Now being off road guys themselves,
after doing this for a few years,
they kinda came to the conclusion
that they could build the lift kit themselves,
market it, and support it better
than the companies that they were offering themselves.
So they got together, did a little research and development,
and in 1995, BDS Suspensions was born.
Now we fast forward a little bit to today,
BDS is part of a bigger picture.
BDS is now the flagship brand
of the Sport Truck USA stable,
which includes Zone, which you've heard us talk about,
JKS Suspension, RT Pro for the UTV market,
and of course 4x4 Posi-Lok.
But even being owned by Fox,
BDS is still there in Coldwater, Michigan
with local employees, local fabrication,
everything built right there,
made in America like it should be.
Being a part of Fox gives BDS some awesome opportunities
for engineering and upgrades
with their Fox racing shock component
and their garage that they have themselves
to develop new products,
so that's really cool on their end.
This allows BDS to upgrade some of their systems
from the basic monotube shocks to a Fox shock,
to a Fox coil-over and really up the game
with their lift kit offerings.
So since the beginning,
since they were founded in '95,
BDS has always had a focus
on having the best engineered product brought to market.
Because of this focus,
BDS has some of the best ball joint
and CV axle angles in the game
in the lift kit market right now,
as well as holding accreditations
like the FMV Assess 126 Compliance
to not adversely affect factory ESC systems,
which basically means these kits will lift your truck
and still allow the fancy computer
Stabilitrak traction control systems to work properly,
and the truck won't know that anything has changed.
So it's kind of a big deal when you're talking
about going to to the mall in the rain.
So, to back up their engineering even more,
BDS offers a no hassle warranty
on all of their kits and components.
Now this means that you can go out,
jump your truck, do whatever, break some sh, tell them,
and they'll be like, "Yo bro, here's some new parts."
Try that shit with Rough Country.
- Damn!
- In addition, BDS offers a team of lawyers.
So say you take your truck into the dealership,
and they're like,
"Nah, we won't touch it. This thing's got a lift kit on."
BDS is like, "No, dealership,
you can suck it because there's nothing wrong
with having a lift kit.
Our lift kit is properly installed,
is properly designed.
You're gonna cover this drive train warranty."
So that is a huge plus on BDS' side.
No other lift kit company offers something that awesome.
So this just proves
that they really stand behind their motto,
which is use it and abuse it.
Now BDS has come on as the leading lift kit brand
in the whole mall crawler revolution,
but these kits can take a beating
if that's what you're looking to do.
They're designed like they say, to abuse it.
This is an off road lift kit.
Go and jump this thing.
You really could if you really wanted to.
Maybe don't do it if you're running 37s on 14 wides
on a 1500 is a little bit sketchy,
but you know, the Jeep kits, things of that nature,
they use these things.
They're engineered out in the elements
for use on trail in off road parks.
They're not to just go to the mall,
just to go get groceries,
even though they look pretty sweet
when you're doing that too.
So, like all the lift kit brands,
BDS does have things they can work on as well.
Being so popular, they do have issues
with kits going on back order,
but they are addressing that.
They are moving to a bigger warehouse to hold more product,
and they are in the process of hiring more people.
On occasion you get hardware bags missing, things like that.
It's human error. It's gonna happen.
At that kind of volume,
you gotta expect an error every once in awhile.
So you can't get on 'em too bad for that.
What I do want to get on 'em for is the 1500 truck.
They only make up to a six inch lift kit,
while their biggest competition in that price point
is pumping out a seven to nine kit
gettin' you another three inches out of those trucks.
If they could just come up with a bigger kit,
I think it would help them a lot.
So, what does the future hold for BDS?
Basically they're just gonna keep on keepin' on,
which makes sense seeing as how what they are doing
is working so well.
They are the number one lift kit in the game right now.
It's at a right price point, the right engineering,
the right quality with that awesome warranty.
You really can't go wrong with a BDS lift kit,
so why change what's not broken?
That is everything that you need to know about BDS
and why you should spend the extra money
on a BDS kit to make your truck ride
like it came that way from the factory while being lifted.
So make sure give us a like,
give us a share, drop a comment below.
We wanna know what you think about BDS,
and show us your BDS equipped trucks.
Oh, your probably still wanna know what BDS stands for.
So according to Fox corporate,
it stands for Better Design Suspensions,
but you go ask those guys in Coldwater
who came up with this thing in 1995?
They'll let you know probably,
BDS stands for Big Dick's Suspension.
Now that is everything you need to know
about BDS lift kits.
Peace.
(rock guitar music)