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jon f mn · Jan 23, 2015

Got my new Bose seat installed yesterday. Well, actually I got 2 installed since the first one didn't work. Lol. If that isn't the story of my life lately I don't know What is. Anyway here are the pics. It has all the stuff of a regular air ride seat, but uses an electric motor to counteract the movement of the truck. So the truck goes up and down, but you stay in one spot. In theory at least. Only rode about 70 miles in it so far and that was Bob tail, so no conclusions yet. Did give me some motion sickness tho, which they worned me about. As long as I looked at the road it was ok, but look down at the radio or dash and I got a bit of nosia. They say that will pass when I get some time in it.

fixerupper · Jan 23, 2015

Did the seat come with a box of Dramamine (sp)?

Ultradog MN · Jan 23, 2015

Is that what they call the Bose Wave Seat?

Matt H NY · Jan 23, 2015

Sounds like the active seat in my 8285R JD. Pretty nice ride in that tractor.

Frank 41 · Jan 23, 2015

Can you set it like the grain haulers around here, where you are looking through the steering wheel and over the dash? I would think they would have to change the angle of the petals sitting that low.

JD Seller · Jan 23, 2015

I still think it is funny your company actually thinks it will save money on the repairs on a spring ride trailer. I will bet that those trailers are falling apart in under 5 years. The road being rough as they are will shake them apart.

I had two Tempe grain trailers. They where the same year and size. One is was spring ride and the other air ride. The air ride was actually used twice as much.

The spring ride had more repairs on it with fewer miles of use. Then as they got 5-6 six years old I sold the spring ride it had stress cracks coming in the frame around the axle mounts.

Good luck with your seat. I HATE those type of seats. You can't push the clutch without going into the back seat. You have worse control of the whole truck as you are moving around while trying to drive straight.

heavyhaulertoo · Jan 23, 2015

that moving around always made my legs tired moving up and down.

used red MN · Jan 24, 2015

"I HATE those type of seats. You can't push the clutch without going into the back seat."
You would think that it would use a signal from the clutch switch to lock the seat in place when the driver needs to operate the clutch. I thought Bose was a technology leader. The motion sickness thing is quite interesting. I thought it might come with a fart noise suppression system. Lol.

D beatty · Jan 24, 2015

The company I drove for 80% of the trailers in the fleet where spring ride and balance air ride.Our newest trailers were 5 years old with a lot of them over 15 years old and older and they held up fine. Our company took traiers in every 3 to 4 years and rolled the whole axle assembly out from under trailer and rebuild them. Most of the time it was the slider system that needed rebuilding( we used the sliders a lot).
The air rides were in shop as much as the spring ride. I liked the spring ride more. To me it was a more stable ride and if you blow an air bag on an air ride and they ride on bottom it is a rough ride.

jimg.allentown · Jan 24, 2015

Jon has an "automatic" transmission. I remember him posting about that when he bought the truck new.

rustyacres sd · Jan 24, 2015

I worked as a draftsman for Trail King Trailers, and I think 99.9 percent where air ride trailers. Even on the huge heavy hauls that they build, it was air ride suspension. They were the last think that needed any fixing. But of course trail king trailers are the best out there

Wemedeeres · Jan 24, 2015

So when the electronics go haywire in it where do you go for service when your out on the road? I can't see that there'd be too many dealers out there.

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