autoride shocks

[markstahoe]

Has anyone ever replaced the autoride shocks on their Tahoe or Suburban?

Has anyone ever replaced them with NON-autoride shocks? The OEM replacements are ridiculously expensive so I am contemplating throwing away the old shocks and going with a good grade of non-autoride shock.

What is your experience with this?

Thanks for any help,
Mark

[BLUE ZL600 EFI]

I was in your boat a few months ago (search for the threads). Anyway I had one leaking air and kept pumping. I tried yanking the fuse not only did it ride awful, but the stupid fix autoride light was on then. I called my dealer and he ran the vin number to get the excat shock number I needed and then I ordered it from RockAuto.com. They were about 200 less than the dealer. Since I only needed one I figured it was fine. I have 87,000 miles on the rest and you can hardly tell the difference.

[gkindub]

Someone surely must love crawling under their vehicle to replace shocks piecemeal. My advice is to replace them with the best you can afford but replace as an axle set.