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*** NOTE *** “STOCK Can Am Main Springs are NOT that Bad….

We have been testing customers’ springs as they come in with low mileage and some with almost 1,000 miles on them and here is what we have found. The Can Am Main Springs (Lower — Larger Springs) are holding up pretty good.

I personally took (3) Can Am X3 XRS cars out to Barstow on December 1st 2016 so Eibach could do their spring evaluation and design their Pro UTV Spring kits. They always give me their test results on the factory UTV Springs and what we are finding is that the Rear Middle Tender Spring and the Front Tender Spring is failing and loosing rate. That is what has been driving us all crazy with adding more preload to get the proper ride height.

So, I believe for people that don't want to buy expensive 3.75 ID Springs they can probably get away with replacing the Front (Upper Spring) Tender spring with a new Eibach Tender Spring and replace (2) Tender Springs on the Rear with (1) new Eibach Tender Spring. I have tested this with our shock mods and it works awesome BUT for the true enthusiast that goes to the Sand Dunes and runs the big hills at speed and G’s-Out a lot and the drivers that hit big jumps or use their X3 XRS as a pre-runner for sure should replace all their Can Am factory springs with (8) new Eibach Springs. Eibach doesn’t have their Pro UTV Spring kits available as we speak. But, when they do expect to pay around $1,200 just for springs.

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About Us

Opening in [1996], UTVshocks.com formerly known as Micro Touch, Inc. has a long history of OFF ROAD RACING. Starting with Racing a 2 seat Buggy at places like Riverside Raceway, Saddleback Park, Santa Maria and other fun race tracks in the mid 70's with names you might remember, Rick, Roger and yes Father Mears Bill Mears! Also, Driving a Class 8 GMC Pickup in the 1979 Baja 1000 as a Co-Driver to Tom Morris and Steve Kelley. Then working at PPI (Precision Preparation Inc.) in the 80's and building working on Drivers cars - again you might have heard of a few of these drivers. Ivan (Iron Man) Stewart, Robby Gordon, Cal Wells, Sr. Albert and Frank Arciero, Rod and Steve Millen and more...

Company Goals

To give our Off Road Customers the best possible Ride Comfort for their Vehicle.

Quality & Service

We Enjoy what we do and we guaranty nobody works harder at the vehicles we specialize in. We test in the California Desert and Sand Dunes and at our other location in Lake Havasu Arizona where we can even test on the streets.

Customer Comments

If you run into Ivan Stewart, Robby Gordon or any of the names above - please ask them if they know Gary Fries.

UTV Shocks came about in 2006 when I bought my first UTV - 2006 Rhino "Limited Edition" and wasn't happy with the ride quality and overall Instability of the vehicle. I bought a 3 inch over long travel kit that was fitted with KING Shocks and it actually worked worse than the stock suspension - BUT it Looked Cool... Not what I was looking for...

I drove down to visit Brett King and talk to him about what I could do to modify their shocks and he sent me away with different valving stacks and said good luck. His words to me were... "That little thing is like trying to make my fathers Jeep perform well over whoop de do's and that's NOT going to happen" Six months later I was the distributor for Bilstein Shocks for UTV's and sold shocks to many of the top builders of Long Travel Kits for UTV's and had available the BEST aftermarket replacement shock for many UTV's.