Mrs T Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Mr T says does anyone supply and or fit air ride seats, Mr T is getting older by the minute and the hard rides hurts his bones. MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Sorry but airrides is NOT air suspension..it just assists load carrying..Pretty basic really, whereas air suspension is more sophisticated and a hell of a lot more money. try reducing the tyre pressure.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Collings Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Perhaps Mr T is thinking of a suspended seat as used on trucks and tractors.. See. http://www.comfyseating.com/truck_seats.html It would help if we had more detail of the vehicle. Appropriate tyre pressures for the the actual axle loads the vehicle runs at rather than the often advised pressures for full load can of course help. Visit a weighbridge loaded ready for a trip complete with passengers. Otain the figures for front and rear axles and then contact the tyre manufacturer quoting the figures for advice on pressures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Oop's misread that! Nothing new there!lol :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Another potential supplier is TEK Seating http://www.tekseating.co.uk/category/1/Truck-Seating Looking at your Chatterbox posting of a couple of weeks ago http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=28160&posts=1 I suspect your "VW 2006" is a Transporter T5. I think it may be very difficult, approaching impossible, to shoehorn a type of seat designed for trucks/buses into that make/model of vehicle. Even if it were practicable to fit a 'truck seat', it would be an expensive exercise with no guarantee that the result would be satisfactory. Original VW seats tend to be firm, but the types of seat that are marketed for retrofitting also tend towards firmness in their cushions. Even if you fitted an air-suspended seat Mr T's bum might still find it hard. Rather than replace the original VW seat in its entirety, you might consider having it re-upholstered with thicker, softer cushions. TEK Seating should be able to advise on this and provide an idea of the cost. http://www.tekseating.co.uk/page/84/Trim-Shop To check if re-upholstering might be effective, Mr T could try test-driving the vehicle with a thickish duvet draped over the seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 from memory*-) don't VW seats sit on a kind of bulkhead...Cant see truck seats working. Unlikely to swivel either and that is pretty much essential in a small van Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs T Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Yes it was a T5 thank you. He could not think of the model number. Sorry for the confusion it was seats not body suspension, he thinks it will have to be some sort of cushioning as he says there is little space for larger seating, he says he will contact VW in Germany (he means I will) and see what they say and will let you know. Mrs T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Collings Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Ask your VW dealer to check the type of suspension fitted. I went to the press launch of the T5 and the highest powered model had a very hard ride. The middle power version was much more comfortable. I checked with the technical people and the top model had had a harder set of springs and possibly dampers. If you have the hard version it would probably be cheaper to set a new set of springs and dampers all round than alter the seat. Full air suspension for the vehicle( not just the seat) are available: see http://airride.co.uk/category/t5-transporter/ Its not cheap but probably less than changing to another vehicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeti Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 About 30 years ago I was prepping a Landrover I was going to use on an expedition to Egypt; I drove a vehicle with Bostrom seats which had suspension. I found they mad me seasick and were expensive,somone suggested Dunlopillo rubber foam,which is holy and doesn't sweat. I replaced the seat squabs with it and it did the trick. Have you also considered the possibility of a memory foam piece for a cushion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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