Most comfortable riding
Which truck is the most comfortable when loaded with a heavy camper?
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I agree 100% with "Reality Check". (And I have similar life-long truck seat time in everything from pickups to semis.)
Air ride will make it ride nicer than without, but I'd say the benefit is more when the truck is empty because that's when they ride the harshest.
An air-ride diesel-pusher bus coach is the only rig I could positively assure you is the smoothest ride possible in an RV.
If your wife is that sensitive, that may be your only option.
BTW, those 2nd-Gen Dodge seats are some of the more comfortable ones around.
A company called Katzkin makes really terrific new leather upholstery kits for most popular vehicles including those Dodges, and you can now get brand new lower seat foam for them from genosgarage (dot com). If you keep your '01 Dodge and want to make the seats nice and new again, the stuff is all readily available.
One other thing; this is a bit counter-intuitive but I'd try lowering your tire pressure.
That usually has a very noticeable effect on ride quality.
You could try installing the biggest fattest tires you can and running really low pressure. The bigger the tire, the more it can support on lower pressure. That Dodge has a lot of room in the wheelwells and you can put spacers between the rear duals for more clearance.
We used to do that with dump trucks that did a lot of off-road work.
It works. That technique could be your magic formula.
Air ride will make it ride nicer than without, but I'd say the benefit is more when the truck is empty because that's when they ride the harshest.
An air-ride diesel-pusher bus coach is the only rig I could positively assure you is the smoothest ride possible in an RV.
If your wife is that sensitive, that may be your only option.
BTW, those 2nd-Gen Dodge seats are some of the more comfortable ones around.
A company called Katzkin makes really terrific new leather upholstery kits for most popular vehicles including those Dodges, and you can now get brand new lower seat foam for them from genosgarage (dot com). If you keep your '01 Dodge and want to make the seats nice and new again, the stuff is all readily available.
One other thing; this is a bit counter-intuitive but I'd try lowering your tire pressure.
That usually has a very noticeable effect on ride quality.
You could try installing the biggest fattest tires you can and running really low pressure. The bigger the tire, the more it can support on lower pressure. That Dodge has a lot of room in the wheelwells and you can put spacers between the rear duals for more clearance.
We used to do that with dump trucks that did a lot of off-road work.
It works. That technique could be your magic formula.
