Gravel Driveways, Chip Seal Roads, and Tires That Handle Both
Copper Canyon is small, and that is the point. A few hundred homes on real acreage, long private drives, and roads that go from chip seal to caliche to gravel and back again inside of a mile.
Those roads are hard on trucks in a way that highway miles are not. Gravel chews sidewalls. Washboard finds every worn bushing you own. Caliche dust gets into everything with a boot on it. And a set of highway tires that looked fine on the showroom floor will let you down on a wet caliche grade the first time you are in a hurry.
So the conversation with a Copper Canyon customer usually starts with the tire, not the lift. Get the tire right — the right compound, the right sidewall, the right load range — and everything else gets easier.
Every Copper Canyon quote is in writing, line by line: the parts, the labor, the alignment and the tax. Approve it inside 15 days and that price is locked through pickup, even if parts go up on us. If we find something else on your truck, we stop, show you, and nothing gets added unless you approve it.
Bring it by or call. We look at how you drive it, what you tow and where you park it, then talk height, tire size and ride before we talk parts.
Kit, wheels, tires, labor, alignment and tax on one sheet, texted to your phone. Fitment is checked against your exact truck before anything is ordered.
Seat cover, steering wheel cover and floor mat go in before a tech gets in the cab. We text you when it checks in, if anything changes and when it is ready.
Every lift leaves aligned. We recommend a hardware re-check after the first few hundred miles, because new suspension settles.
We service it. A clunk over bumps, a wheel that will not sit straight, death wobble at 55, tires wearing on the inside edge. We inspect it, tell you what is actually wrong, and give you a written price with the same Price Lock, whoever installed the kit. See lift & suspension service ›
All-terrain and hybrid-terrain tires with sidewall protection that survives a gravel drive — Nitto, Toyo, Falken, BFGoodrich, Fury, Yokohama and Goodyear. Sized and load-rated for your truck, not guessed at.
Shocks, bushings, ball joints, tie rods and track bars take a beating on unpaved roads. We inspect the whole front end when your truck is on the rack, and we tell you what is actually worn.
You are nine minutes away. Drop it off, we call you with what we find, and you get the truck back the same week. No ticket number, no call center.
Constant small-amplitude vibration is the quiet killer. A truck that runs a mile of washboard every day will loosen sway bar end links, wear ball joints and kill shocks years earlier than the same truck on pavement. None of that announces itself — it shows up as a clunk over a speed bump, or a steering wheel that no longer returns to center.
Tire choice is the other half. A three-ply sidewall or a tougher all-terrain compound costs a little more up front and saves you the tow bill the first time a sharp piece of caliche finds a highway tire. We will show you the load range and the ply rating on the sidewall and explain what the numbers actually mean.
And alignment matters more out here, not less. Every impact nudges toe. A truck that is a quarter degree out will scrub the edges off a new set of all-terrains in a surprisingly short time on rough roads. Our basic one-hour alignment exists for exactly this.
If you are lifting on top of that, we set caster properly so the truck still tracks straight when the surface is loose — which is the difference between a lifted truck that feels planted and one that feels nervous.
All of it in-house at our Argyle shop, with every job quoted in writing and price-locked before we touch your truck.
There are more Jeeps around Copper Canyon than most people notice — JL and JK Wranglers on 35s, Gladiators pulling trailers, TJs that have been in the family a decade. Same bay, same crew, same written quote. See everything we do for Jeeps.
A steering stabilizer hides death wobble. It does not fix it. We check the track bar, ball joints, tie rod ends, control arm bushings and wheel balance before we sell you a single part — that is how we run a death wobble diagnosis.
A JL or JT on 35s with factory gears is slow off the line, hot on the highway and hard on the transmission. We do the lift and the regear together so the Jeep drives right when it leaves.
Drop the Jeep off, we pull the hardtop and reinstall it when the weather turns. The top goes home with you — we do not store it. Hardtop removal and reinstall.
The top brands in the industry are available through us, along with most OEM factory parts. These are the lines we install most.
Running something that is not on this list? We can source and install almost any major aftermarket suspension, wheel, tire or accessory line — give us a call and we will price it out.
Generally an all-terrain or hybrid-terrain with a reinforced sidewall — think Nitto Ridge Grappler, Toyo Open Country, BFGoodrich KO-class, Falken Wildpeak or Fury. The specific answer depends on how much highway you also drive and how much noise you will tolerate. We will lay the options out with real trade-offs.
Most often sway bar end links, worn bushings, or a loose track bar — all inexpensive. Sometimes it is a ball joint or a shock that has given up. Bring it in, we will put it on the rack and tell you what we actually find rather than guessing over the phone.
Not necessarily. A leveling kit will usually get you to a 33 on a half-ton with no trimming, which is plenty of tire for unpaved roads. We would rather sell you the right tire on a level than a taller lift you did not need.
About five miles — roughly nine minutes over to 4020 Trey Ln, Unit B in Argyle. Open Monday through Saturday, 8am to 6pm.
It depends on the truck, the kit and the tire you want, so we do not post a price that would be wrong for your truck. You get a written, itemized quote with parts, labor and tax on one sheet. Approve it inside 15 days and that price is locked through pickup.
It depends on the kit. Your written quote tells you how long we need your truck before any parts are ordered, and we text you when it checks in, when parts land and when it is ready.
Not automatically. Under the federal Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, a manufacturer cannot void your whole warranty just because aftermarket parts are installed. It can deny a specific claim if it shows the aftermarket part caused the failure. We will tell you which parts of your truck a given kit touches before you buy it.
Yes. Clunks, death wobble, alignment that will not hold, worn shocks or a ride that never felt right. We inspect it, give you a written price and lock it, whoever installed the kit.
Nine minutes. Chinn Chapel to FM 407 and you are here.
LONESTAR LIFTED TRUCKS LLC
4020 Trey Ln, Unit B
Argyle, TX 76226
(940) 240-1958
Monday – Saturday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM · Closed Sunday
We also serve Argyle · Flower Mound · Bartonville · Justin · Northlake and the greater DFW Metroplex within fifty miles of the shop.
You do not need a lift to shop with us. A stock Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban, Expedition, 4Runner or Defender, or a half-ton on factory wheels, gets the same care as a full build: replacement tires in the factory size, new wheels, road-force balancing, TPMS, rotations and flat repair.
Highway, all-season, all-terrain or mud-terrain. Pick the brand and we can get it. The quote is in writing, and the price we quote is the price you pay.