Ford F-150 Lift & Leveling Hub

The F-150 is the best-selling truck in the US (828,842 F-Series sold in 2025, per the sales figures compiled in our research) and the platform with the deepest lift-kit aftermarket — BDS, Rough Country, ReadyLIFT, Fabtech and ICON all build for it. That depth is exactly why F-150 fitment advice is so noisy: every brand publishes numbers for its own kits and nobody owns the whole picture.

This hub is our answer: one page where the F-150’s generations, exclusions and verified tire-clearance figures live, rendered from the same fitment dataset as our fitment checker — never hand-typed, so a correction lands everywhere at once.

2015–2020: the aluminium-body generation (13th gen)

The 2015 redesign put the F-150 on an aluminium-alloy body over a steel frame — the weight-saving move that defined this generation — and the trucks ran through 2020 with the same basic architecture. For lift buyers this is now the value generation: huge used supply, and a mature aftermarket where leveling spacers, loaded struts and full suspension systems exist for essentially every cab, bed and drive combination. The kit listings we have verified reflect that maturity — the Rough Country 2-inch leveling kit in our dataset is listed for 2014–2022 trucks, spanning the back half of this generation and the start of the next, which is typical of how F-150 kit coverage overlaps generation boundaries. Check the exact year range on any listing rather than assuming a generation label settles it.

What suits it: all three lift types work here. A 1.5–2.5-inch level is the default first mod; 3–4-inch and 6-inch suspension systems are widely catalogued; body lifts exist for owners who only need arch room. The cautions are the general ones — stay near 2–2.5 inches on spacers to protect upper-control-arm geometry, and budget the alignment.

2021+: the 14th-generation redesign

The 2021 redesign (14th generation) kept the aluminium body and reworked nearly everything around it — new interior, available hybrid powertrain, and a much deeper layer of driver-assistance and chassis electronics. That electronics layer is what lift buyers must check first on these trucks. Factory-lift trims — Tremor, and the Raptor above it — start where most leveling kits end, and many standard kits explicitly exclude them. Adaptive damping (CCD) and driver-assistance hardware on higher trims appear in kit exclusion lists for the same reason: a spacer that ignores a sensor or a damper the truck is actively managing is not a fitment, whatever the bolt pattern says.

What suits it: the same ladder as the older trucks, with the exclusion check moved to step one. Levels and mid lifts are well covered for the mainstream trims; the verified kit examples in our dataset include the Rough Country 2-inch spacer listing (2014–2022) on one end, while our ReadyLIFT 3.5-inch SST entry is a deliberate example of the opposite case — its generation and trim fitment was not scoped in the source we verified, so we publish it with that note attached in the kit record rather than guessing which 2021+ trims it covers. That is how every kit on this site is treated: unscoped fitment is stated in the kit’s context, never smoothed over.

For this generation specifically, we have since verified four current kits on their manufacturer pages — a budget spacer, a CCD-compatible spacer, and two adjustable struts — compared by use case in best leveling kits for 2021+ Ford F-150. And the tire question this generation asks most often gets its own working: how much lift to fit 35s on a Ford F-150, built on the same ladder below plus the one manufacturer-stated, generation-scoped row we hold (ReadyLIFT’s 2-inch kit clears a 295/60R20 — a 33.9-inch tire — with no trimming, and that is its stated ceiling).

Reading the fitment table below

The verified rows under this hub come from fitment guides written for the F-150 broadly rather than for one generation — TireGeeks’ ladder (2-inch level clears 33s; 3-inch lift fits 35×12.50 with minor trimming; 6-inch fits 37s) is presented as exactly that: general F-150 guidance, labelled as such in our data, not as per-generation fact. The full reasoning lives in our tire size and lift height guide. When a source gives us numbers scoped to 2015–2020 or 2021+ specifically, generation-scoped rows will replace the general ones here — the table renders from data, so the upgrade is automatic.

New to the decision itself? Read leveling kit vs lift kit vs body lift first, price the outcome with how much does it cost to lift a truck, then come back to the table below.