2020 Mustang Magne-Ride Dampning System - Feedback?

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Anyone have experience with the Magne-Ride Damping System on Mustangs? One of the Mustangs I'm looking at has this option. Not something I want, but the pickings are getting slim.

- Maintenance?
- Does it really improve ride quality?
- Known issues?
- Any resale value?
- Overall value?

Thanks for your feedback.
 

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Its technology that came from the GT350 program. Helps with the handling performance of the car.

-dont know about the maintenance, i would assume like anything else its a wear and tear part.

-improves handling of the car, well worth it if you dont have plans to change out the suspension

-dont know about any issues,

- its an option that would add some resale value over a car that does not. Its a depreciating asset so you will not recoup any money. Buy to enjoy

- personally i think its well worth it if you actually like driving the car in a performance style. If you dont then you may not fully benifit from it.
 

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If you like to mod, you may very well end up not keeping it on the car. It's an added expense to the purchase price, an added complex feature, and a wear item. If you want to lower the car, it could very well end up getting replaced with aftermarket parts, which makes the purchase rather moot/negative.

I wouldn't be willing to pay for it. If the price was fantastic on the car then sure.
 

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Anyone have experience with the Magne-Ride Damping System on Mustangs? One of the Mustangs I'm looking at has this option. Not something I want, but the pickings are getting slim.

- Maintenance?
- Does it really improve ride quality?
- Known issues?
- Any resale value?
- Overall value?

Thanks for your feedback.

- No additional maintenance over a normal shock/strut

- Yes, my GT350 rode better than my 17 Mustang GT, and could firm up significantly more if needed

- I had a buddy with a Camaro who had 3 leaking shocks (covered under warranty thankfully) which was the ultimate cause for him selling car due to the cost to repair them. He was worried about them, I had no issues with my car.

- I would pay more for a car with adaptive suspension

- I personally find value in them, although a lot of people say they don't see a reason for them and can't tell any difference from normal to track, which is crazy to me
 

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One strut is $500+ a piece. Go from there.

Hey thats not too bad all things considered, front struts for my e39 m5 are 500 a piece and those certainly are not adaptive in any way.

Magneride is an option I wish existed when I bought my car and I certainly would have picked the option. Lowering springs exist for mag struts. Unless you're looking to turn this into an all out drag or track car, they have a lot of benefits over the standard suspension.
 

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Hey thats not too bad all things considered, front struts for my e39 m5 are 500 a piece and those certainly are not adaptive in any way.

Magneride is an option I wish existed when I bought my car and I certainly would have picked the option. Lowering springs exist for mag struts. Unless you're looking to turn this into an all out drag or track car, they have a lot of benefits over the standard suspension.

And that is a BMW M car. Understandably overpriced knowing where it came from.

This is a Ford. People dont expect a $2000+ bill for some replacement stock dampers on a Mustang GT. While they are massively cool and work well i think youre going to see alot for sale with magneride issues down the road. Or people will swap them out with regular Koni or Bilsteins and sell it that way.

Think of airbags on Land Rovers, Mercedes and Lincolns(especially that ****ing town car). There are companies wholely out there to provide replacement struts and springs for those cars as an alternative to the ridiculous repair cost for replacement OEM air bags.
 

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Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Good information.

While it might be neat for me to have, I wouldn't appreciate the real benefits with my driving style.

The level of technology that's available on today's cars is pretty impressive.
 

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And that is a BMW M car. Understandably overpriced knowing where it came from.

This is a Ford. People dont expect a $2000+ bill for some replacement stock dampers on a Mustang GT. While they are massively cool and work well i think youre going to see alot for sale with magneride issues down the road. Or people will swap them out with regular Koni or Bilsteins and sell it that way.

Think of airbags on Land Rovers, Mercedes and Lincolns(especially that ****ing town car). There are companies wholely out there to provide replacement struts and springs for those cars as an alternative to the ridiculous repair cost for replacement OEM air bags.

Air ride on panthers is not that complicated to keep going and honestly they're not nearly as unreliable as the ABC suspensions on Mercs. Usually you can only have one of three things fail on the panther rear air ride. The compressor dies due to rain water collecting in the wheel liner and rusting out the pump, the rear ride height sensor breaks (due to rust 99% of the time) or the least likely is a bag / solenoid problem. All the parts are still available from Ford (for not that much money, I put two OE bags in my 03 Marauder) or two aftermarket companies (Arnott and Suncore) and the parts are not expensive. I always laugh at people who do poverty coil conversions and put soft sprung saggy rear springs in so they dont have to drop 130 dollars on a brand new suncore compressor, meanwhile they drive around with the "air ride" light glowing in the dash.


But I get your point, by the time these cars hit 3, 4, 5 owners and so on, owner # 5 who bought this car with 120k miles for 10 grand isn't going to want to drop 2 grand on 4 replacement struts. Most people who buy used cars that were expensive new, forget just because you paid "10 grand" for the car, it's not a 10 grand car when it comes to maintenance costs.
 

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If it's the same tech, or similar tech, as the SRT suspension, then I think it's worth it.

Had that adjustable suspension on a SRT Jeep. Was flawless till it was traded in with over 100k miles. Could tell the difference between street and track mode for handling.
 

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This is a Ford. People dont expect a $2000+ bill for some replacement stock dampers on a Mustang GT. While they are massively cool and work well i think youre going to see alot for sale with magneride issues down the road. Or people will swap them out with regular Koni or Bilsteins and sell it that way.

GM/Delphi invented it and has had them on the road for the better part of 20 yrs, with countless vehicles running around after all this time. This is an old and proven technology now.

Just like all electro/mechanical devices, they all have their issues and eventually wear out. Still, the vast majority of owners will likely never have an problem with them.
 
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Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Good information.

While it might be neat for me to have, I wouldn't appreciate the real benefits with my driving style.

The level of technology that's available on today's cars is pretty impressive.

Well then maybe you can just keep looking and pass on this one. Or at least drive it and then drive a regular setup to compare
 

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I would want magnaride. IDK about normal GT's with the option, but the GT350 review say normal is firm and race is extra firm.

I think there are companies that offer different computers for them, that can control them to offer more setting options.

EDIT-also, mustangs dont have good resale value, lol.
 

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