[Imdone]

I don't even know where to start on this.

The first and foremost point to be said about your post is yeah, there are all kinds of shops out there that will push spacers because they are cheap/innexpensive/affordable, (pick your word, mine is garbage,) because they have intent to sell something to make money. Yes of course they are going to be more than happy to SELL you a kit, that is what they do and how they make their money. I have seen more than one off-road shop push a spacer kit or sell something that was poorly designed to a customer. Why wouldn't they. They only have to warranty the install, not the actual part or the design of the part, just that they installed it correctly based on the manufacturers instructions.

Secondly, off-road shops generally don't make the spacers, they just install them. They buy the parts and then sell them to the customer and for a "reasonable" price install that part of the customer's truck. A very handy service for joe shmo that doesn't have much money but because he got someone with a friendly face and "seemed" to be very knowledgeble helped him out and he will go on his merry way.

I don't like off-road shops or any parts shop for that matter. I guess that is why I buy my parts from a guy in Oregon and I live in Arizona...

The most simple analogy I can give for a spacer lift is:

Don't try to shove 10lbs of $hit into a 5lb bag.

Spacers are bad on all vehicles, it doesn't matter what you drive. They weigh right up there with those cast little blocks that you can shove between the coilspring coils to lift your truck. You have seen these at Checker and autozone, yeah, they are great, shove a chunk of metal between your coilspring, fabulous idea...

I have seen ball joints get damaged on daily drivers with spacers that were NEVER offroaded and what took them out was the over extension when the truck entered an inclined parking lot. This was not abuse, it was not jumping, it was just going from the street to an elevated parkinglot enterance.

Spacers are bad, hands down.