Hymer Bottoming Out - Air Suspension Help Please
Hymer Bottoming Out - Air Suspension
Hi Everyone,
Can anyone please help?
I have a Hymer MLi580 which is on a Mercedes Sprinter 316 CDi (Year 2014).
The big issue I have is, on a few occasions when there is a relatively steep incline, the rear end of the motorhome bottoms out on the road. I have also moved home recently and even the drive immediately from the roadside to the start of our driveway is much steeper than originally anticipated, so this does the same and bottoms out. The big issues is the fact that the body of the motorhome overhangs the rear axil by 2.2 Metres and with nearly 2.4 tons on the rear axil doesn't help.
It appears that what I really need is to have air bags fitted to the rear axil to lift the axil and hence the back end of the motorhome sufficiently to avoid this. I have looked at some options, to which most suppliers and fitters recommend the dunlop air bag and compressor system. The only problem here is, I cannot get any certainty from anyone as to how much this will lift the rear end, which needs to be by at least 6 inches. I have an old friend that has suggested that I need possibly HGV heavy duty air bags that could lift up to 10 inches. Again I have contacted several companies, but no one can give me any certainty or guaranties that this will work.
Can anyone help, perhaps even someone that has already fitted an air bag system to a Hymer and can say from experience exactly how far this lifts the back end?
Please I realise there may be 1 or 2 obvious comments made such as why don't you change the motorhome to another model and blah blah. Reason we love the motorhome we have and does everything we need it to do and really don't want to change it. So please refrain from these jokes. Any genuine help and advise would be really appreciated.
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it's a lovely van, and at just under 7m, not a huge van, I'm a bit surprised that it's grounding....
[Deleted User User] has a steep drive and a long overhang on his Carthago and had air suspension fitted on delivery.
you could try Travelworld for help, they sell loads of these...they also might suggest Goldschmitt suspension changes or similar...
good luck.
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Contact these guys they will be able to give you the information you are looking for
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I had an Autotrail on a Merc 316 chasis. The suspension was very soft and the back end sagged a bit when I fitted a nudge bar and tow ball on the back. It also tended to roll a lot on bends. I fitted airides to the back suspension which cured all my problems lifting the back end up level. Fitting these would certainly help but I doubt you would gain 6 inches. As Kev says contact Airide and see what they say. Airides have a finite life and I had to replace mine after 8 years.
peedee
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been some replies on MMM, it seems....
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