Aftermarket seat options? Do they even exist anymore?

Machinebuilder

New member
I looked at the Scheelman seats at overland Expo last year, I will get a set for my next truck.

What do you do to get rid of the airbag alarm when replaceing a seat with the built in airbag?
 

Stryder106

Explorer
I looked at the Scheelman seats at overland Expo last year, I will get a set for my next truck.

What do you do to get rid of the airbag alarm when replaceing a seat with the built in airbag?
They make resistors that mimic the air bag sensors in the seats - put those inline and your vehicle thinks it still has those airbags in place. I had to do with mine - works like a charm.
 

Stryder106

Explorer
I'm curious if the OP's truck has a power seat. I'm guessing it does. So, would a Sheel-Mann seat sit on top the existing seat frame? Or do you lose the power function and use a Scheel-Mann frame?

I was poking around the Scheel-Mann website and didn't see power seats.
They do not have power seats. However, it may depend on how your particular seat mounts. I had a similar thought when I first got mine - I was thinking I could remove my power seats and mount the School-Mann's to the powered base. Unfortunately, my seat controls were actually integrated into my seat. So, that left me with no option other than the manual slider. Honestly, I don't miss my power seats at all because once you get the Scheel-Mann's adjusted, you pretty much never touch them again.
 

Todd n Natalie

OverCamper
They do not have power seats. However, it may depend on how your particular seat mounts. I had a similar thought when I first got mine - I was thinking I could remove my power seats and mount the School-Mann's to the powered base. Unfortunately, my seat controls were actually integrated into my seat. So, that left me with no option other than the manual slider. Honestly, I don't miss my power seats at all because once you get the Scheel-Mann's adjusted, you pretty much never touch them again.
I'm not too concerned about back and forth movement. It's the height adjustment I'd want. We would move the seats depending on who's driving.
 

rayra

Expedition Leader
"A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." "

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 

Stryder106

Explorer
"A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." "

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Stellar response. Well done.
 

CodyY

Explorer
Yes, I've come to this conclusion as well. Wondering if an ortho or a chiropractor would be a more appropriate specialist to discuss this with?
Start with PT. Find somebody that's been around a while. Get their opinion and stick with it for a couple months. It takes time.

See the chiropractor and after a couple sessions if you're not seeing benefits, bail out.

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Martinjmpr

Wiffleball Batter
Well, I mentioned it to the doc at my annual physical, and he had me get some X-rays.

Turns out I have retrolisthesis (rearward-slipping vertebrae) at two levels (L1 and L2 I think.) He's going to prescribe some PT and hope I can strengthen the muscles back there.

Dangit. This getting old thing sucks sometimes....
 

RideBeside

New member
I am wondering if anyone has a little more insight in suspension vs orthopedic style seats for overland travel. I am refurbishing a Stewart & Stevenson M1084 and working on the cab now and have narrowed down my focus to Knoedler Extreme Lowrider and the Scheel-Mann Vario F XXL seats. The cab floor on my truck dictates a lower profile seat and these two seem to scratch most of my itches. I like the low tech solid nature of the Scheel-Manns and it seems it has Expedition Portal's seal of approval for long riding comfort and adjustibility but wondering if the suspension aspect of the Knoedler would outweigh that opinion in any way? Is the ride height adjustibility and air ride aspects worth it?

I plan to be living in this truck for 4-5years and putting a lot of miles on the road and off the road so I want to make the best choice I can now and not look back and regret anything. Any input would be appreciated.
 

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