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Here is my 10 cents worth. I just installed airbags on my bosses 08 F250 3 weeks ago. I installed pacbrakes airbags and they were a PIA to do. There is a big differance between the 05-06 frames on the Fords and the 08's. On the pacbrakes bags you have to angle the upper plate with no holes as a guide like on the older ford trucks and drill two holes to mount the upper plate. This is most diffucult on the the side with the Ebrake cable which has to be relocated. A week before this I installed them on my Dodge 3500 and they were very easy to install and took no time at all. Please look at each company's product and see how they are constructed, because they are not all the same. Look at the warrenty that the company offers and ask yourself how good you are with tools. If you are not comfortable drilling into your frame don't pick the pacbrake's bags or hire a pro. I am not sure if the others are no drill kits as I can only speak for pacbrake's bags. As for preformance, the bags works great. They have made a world of difference in comfort when towing my 5th wheel. I feel it tracks better and when I hit big bumps or cross bridges I feel there is something there to dampen the shock. My bosses truck tows a 14 foot dump trailer overloaded all the time and it has made alot of differance in how the truck handles the heavy loads of the trailer. Paying a guy a couple hundred bucks would be the way I would go so I did not have to bust a knuckle under a truck to install them if I owned a 08 or newer Ford! If it was a Dodge, I would say go do it yourself, its super easy! Its just my 10 cents. Good luck with your decision. Happy camping!
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