Thread: Intelliride or Accuair Experiences and Knowledge

Have you PM'd CAL415?
Full Airbag Suspension (all 4 corners) with In-Cab Controls ?

Originally Posted by Dougal

Have you PM'd CAL415?
Full Airbag Suspension (all 4 corners) with In-Cab Controls ?

Thanks will give him a go and ask if he can help out here, edit: his PM box is full but Pm'd a few others from that thread that have aftermarket airbag systems edit : he has now been pm'd hopefully will post here soon

Personally I would like to see this thread continue (on-topic) as I am intending to fit EAS to my Defender 6X6 and am looking for a system to run it.

The rear bags on each side will be parralleled to operate as a single load sharing axle group.

The systems I have investigated mostly seem to have 3 settings. I would like to have at least 4.

1. Access height. (Getting in and out and parking in low headroom places)
2. Highway/Expressway height with a lower than standard height to lower the CoG and reduce body roll/instability at high (for Defender) speeds.
3. Standard height, rural roads, tracks and places where road humps are plenty.
4. Off Road

and possibly a manual over-ride.

No the standard RR/LR EAS systems are not of interest.

I'd also like to see it stay as I want to run bags on the rear of my Defender when the original suspension is due for a change out. Pat

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Personally I would like to see this thread continue (on-topic) as I am intending to fit EAS to my Defender 6X6 and am looking for a system to run it.

The rear bags on each side will be parralleled to operate as a single load sharing axle group.

The systems I have investigated mostly seem to have 3 settings. I would like to have at least 4.

1. Access height. (Getting in and out and parking in low headroom places)
2. Highway/Expressway height with a lower than standard height to lower the CoG and reduce body roll/instability and high (Defender) speeds.
3. Standard height, rural roads, tracks and places where road humps are plenty.
4. Off Road

and possibly a manual over-ride.

No the standard RR/LR EAS systems are not of interest.

I know you don't want a factory system. But that one does have 4 programmable heights. 5 if you count the "help I'm bellied" mode.
High profile (offroad)
Standard profile.
Low profile (onroad above a certain speed).
Access mode.

Since access mode is essentially on the bump-stops, an aftermarket system with three heights will work the same. Just dump air for access mode and use 3 programmed settings for the rest.

Two rear axles shouldn't be a problem for any system. You could run sensors on all four rear wheels and electrically average the pair on each side. Then if you have one up and one down on the same side the result should be the same and the controller won't know any different to 4 wheels.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Personally I would like to see this thread continue (on-topic) as I am intending to fit EAS to my Defender 6X6 and am looking for a system to run it.

The rear bags on each side will be parralleled to operate as a single load sharing axle group.

The systems I have investigated mostly seem to have 3 settings. I would like to have at least 4.

1. Access height. (Getting in and out and parking in low headroom places)
2. Highway/Expressway height with a lower than standard height to lower the CoG and reduce body roll/instability and high (Defender) speeds.
3. Standard height, rural roads, tracks and places where road humps are plenty.
4. Off Road

and possibly a manual over-ride.

No the standard RR/LR EAS systems are not of interest.

From the research i have done thus far:
Accuair Elevel has 4 settings if you have the controller or Iphone/Apple App (all down function is bump stops) but you can put valves in to make bags stop at certain psi

Doesn't auto drop from high to 3 to 2, so proper engineering might be an issue depending on who you talk to, has individual bag control but only with "handbrake signal" wire activated

All heights are easily set in seconds like setting a radio preset.

Not sure if Intelliride has 4 heights but it does auto drop (if you want) from 3 to 2 and auto raise from 1 to 2 at selectable speeds and time spent over or under speed.

I would go intelliride or accuair for 6x6 and just mimic the rear set up again and when the first rear axle height sensors drop or raise it does the same to 2nd rear set.

But intelliride might be the go becuase they are used on trucks and busses with 3 axles im sure and very customizable (windows based)

Originally Posted by PAT303

I'd also like to see it stay as I want to run bags on the rear of my Defender when the original suspension is due for a change out. Pat

Go accuair single axle defender kit from Airbagman, or why not get front and rear kit while your at it

Getting a little off topic here, has anyone got any real world experience with any of these aftermarket kits?

We need to find out which one is most suitable for retrofits in landies, im torn between the two but im leaning towards intelliride over Accuair