[A2day]

Hi!
As you might know the EQC has Air suspension in the back, and conventional in the front.

Although it’s great we have a self leveling solution, it’s also a fact the vibration absorption is not uniform. So in some roads the EQC tends to swing as the back suspension moves slightly more than the stiffer front.

this causes motion sickness. My family really hates being driven in the EQC. Really bad everyone at home complains every time we enter the car for a ride.

Gladly I found a solution.

since we don’t have all around Air suspension, there is no setting to stiffen it.
But when you engage Sport in the drive mode, it does it for you. Down side is that’s difficult to get good consumption levels, but family doesnt complain as much.

have you noticed this? Did you knew you could control the stiffness?

cheers

 

[Dar]

I found the suspension can swing more noticeably than I would expect. My owner's manual (attached excerpt) says, using "individual" dynamic mode, "suspension" can be individually adjusted separate from "drive" (throttle sensitivity), but they seem to be inseparably linked together in my car! Suspension wasn't even listed in menu unlike steering and drive which were!

I have found generally increasing tire pressure a few psi subjectively seemed to reduce swing. I even tried bumping up at rear more than front but suspension subjectively seemed to "feel/sound" like it was being damaged over bad road surfaces so I went back to the same all around but am still interested in effects of various tire pressure. I have considered changing from 19" to 21" tires also and would be interested to know if it would actually reduce swing. I seem to remember in some markets (Australia) 21" was only option initially though a car with 20" was later introduced but never 19" interestingly!

Another way that seemed to reduce noticeable suspension swing was to start turning of steering wheel much earlier and more gradually than I am used to, like a pendelum, when doing a fast corner. "Pendelum" braking and throttle helped too.

Using less airflow seemed to help me with carsickness when driving in heavy traffic. I suspect because it demands less of the air filters so there is less pollutants coming into car. If go too low it might cause sickness from lack of oxygen though

 

[dBC]

Suspension wasn't even listed in menu unlike steering and drive which were!

In most Mercs, that's an indication that it doesn't have adaptive dampers. I thought the EQA had it, but the EQC missed out. I'm not sure how to reconcile that with your owner's manual excerpt though - possibly a cut-n-paste error from the GLC, where I think it is optionally available.

 

[Dar]

"Adblue" (for diesel car) is listed in my owner's manual index too , dBC, though points to a page number that doesn't have any more information about it! And, yes, I checked and EQA does have adaptive dampers as option in some if not all countries!

Following up my initial post, going into "individual" of dynamic modes (instead of "comfort" or "sport"), by setting any of "drive", "steering" or "ESP" to "sport" the suspension subjectively possibly firms up. So far I thought it was only with "drive" set to "sport" but today tried only "steering" and "ESP" to "sport" (with "drive" set to "comfort") and I seemed to get less bounce coming to a stop in adaptive cruise control plus going into potholes seemed to give more sudden body movement. I am delighted and I think I will keep this setting going forward. This might also benefit you A2day if you ever prefer "comfort" setting with stiffer suspension, though you might have a more reliable better way of checking this is true than going into potholes like me. ( it could be just my imagination)

 

[Vhacan]

From what I get then it's only passengers that get motion sickness but not you in the driver seat? or even in the driver seat you get motion sickness?