Why does MRC suck for you?
The tuning of the Denali Mrc is good nowhere. It’s too light when it detects sway, like turning and backing out of a driveway, the car will bounce and rock forever like blown shocks.
Then when your lightly loaded it’s way too stiff on compression and soft on rebound.
Good luck driving down a used dirt road, the truck just skips around. On a smooth not washboard dirt road it’s almost as bad.
Towing is about the only time it does something right.
I drove a Escalade with 22’s and it has the 3 settings. I think there soft setting is such that you can drive on the street and the dampening actually keeps the tire on the ground and doesn’t skip, or bounce forever over any speed bump, hump, crack, pot hole,
Man cover etc etc.
The tuning on the Denali is just horrible. It’s the worst of all worlds regardless if the truck is empty or full,
Driving slow or fast.
Albeit if say it’s a little bit better fast but that’s probably because the aero causes the truck to float quite a bit and the suspension isn’t actually working as hard (except big hits)
Basically at the end of the day, the valving (by tune) is wrong for the vehicle, especially the XL. I don’t know if the XL and the regular are the same tune. That would explain some of it. Less complaints from the swb crowd.
And the shock does not have the heat dissipating ability should you try to drive down a dirt road for 20 miles at anything over a creep.
You can feel the suspension first get confused and get really really really stiff,
Then start to over heat and get really really really soft.
These Denali xl’s have a lot of weight for a very small amount of fluid that not only has to gain heat from its job, but then the electrical movement creates heat as well. Not a lot, but every bit hurts.