I have gotten back from Ireland with my new van and had a bit of a moment coming off the rear of the ferry ramps when we arrived in Dublin, The overhang of the garage made contact with the metal fingers making horrible scraping noises, the loading officer was watching us and did warn me to go very slowly. At the top I stopped and checked the back and the glass-fibre body had some small scrapes on the lower struts but not worth worrying about. But the ramp was almost flat at the time and I thought about the Isle of Man ferry pontoon at Liverpool which is very abrupt angular changes leading to some cars scraping bumpers, mine included, that was low tide, at high tide there would be no problem but a really big overhang like mine would mean waiting for the high tide to leave the pontoon to the terminal.
Question is, Should I fit a couple of airbags to the rear suspension? to raise it when I have a situation like that again as well as a better ride on the road. Mercedes Sprinters do not have a lot of room between the axle and the chassis members at max weight for the airbags so if there were to be some fitted would it lift the rear end right up and look even sillier that is does anyway or is there only a slight height difference until you put a load more air in to raise it right up. would it also stop the rolling that mercs suffer from when going passed lorries at speed?
Question is, Should I fit a couple of airbags to the rear suspension? to raise it when I have a situation like that again as well as a better ride on the road. Mercedes Sprinters do not have a lot of room between the axle and the chassis members at max weight for the airbags so if there were to be some fitted would it lift the rear end right up and look even sillier that is does anyway or is there only a slight height difference until you put a load more air in to raise it right up. would it also stop the rolling that mercs suffer from when going passed lorries at speed?