IFS - The story of Independent Front Suspension on Jeeps. It was recently brought to our attention that a group of Jeep owners and enthusiasts were requesting other Jeep owners to sign a petition online, that they intend to present to DaimlerChrysler for consideration of their interests. The Jjournal offers community posting forums for owners to talk directly to owners, so we feel that is where this type of general discussion is most appropriately discussed. It is our belief that if we wish to purchase a new jeep in coming years, we should be able to find one with factory installed live axles. He starts his response with bringing up the fact that Jeep has used independent suspension since the late 1940's, the Jeep wagons, pickups and original Jeepster all had IFS, using anything from a coil spring, cross leaf to torsion bars.
Some times change can be good.
Jeep realizes to stay in business they have to beat the competetion. The Cherokee has been in production since 1984 and needed to be replaced in order to meet current model competetion. We are owners and admirers of Jeeps legendary prowess, which we believe will only remain intact if the solid axle configuration is retained in the Jeep vehicles. We can only advise that all of these innovations not involve the axle configuration of the vehicles. We also resent having half of the true story of the Liberty offering told to us.