In my experiences when using air bags to actually lower the vehicle and also to bring up to a good ride height it makes for a bad ride. If you use 'bags for what they were originally intended and designed than you should not have too much trouble. Look at new Rovers and similar vehicles they auto lower and raise depending on speed or when your in park, but they don't change the height a great amount and they have a certain operating range. Most people I've talked to absolutly love the look and convenience of bags but aren't as hot on the ride quality.

For instance with lowriders and some hot rods and classic trucks (which may or maynot apply here). Guys with these cars/trucks want them slammed on the ground for cruising or parking, essentially emptying out the air, sometimes completely. Then when they actually want to drive the vehicle they pump em up to be able to clear the road and all it's obstacles. So these guys are trying to go from 0" of clearance to 7-8" of clearance... topping out the bags makes for a much rougher ride. Whereas being the happy medium is around 3-5" in this case which would make it very hard to drive around town, but would ride better.

Keep in mind that everyones sense of comfort is different... a Porsche Cayenne rides much different than an Escalade and both have air suspensions to some extent. These sophicated air suspensions are very integrated with their other components and have millions invested in their design to get them to perform/handle and ride very well.

So in conclusion... if you purchase a kit that is designed to fit the vehicle and you don't change parameters much you should be sittin well. My suggestion would be to ride in a vehicle or two that have been converted to see if you even like the ride and maybe search out sites that have reviews of such conversions.

Good luck to you in finding what works best for you.



As a side note. I had an S-10 quite a few years back that was lowerd with spindles and springs/blocks and it rode very well and I had roughly 5" of clearance (in the front)... enough to clear the larger turtles on the highway but scrape on alot of speed bumps and entrances/exits to parking lots, etc.

 

my previous trucks rode extremely WELL!!! no problems with them at all, they all rode like a caddy. the truck posted below would lift real close to stock height. I also drove this truck to alot of truck shows up and down the great state of california with no problems. It was even "charged". Its all about the people who do the work! (it was a custom kit, not a Air Ride Technologies type kit)

why would you even try to bag a mini van!