Travel Sickness

[rob88]

Is travel sickness a common feature of driving in a Grenadier? I took one for a test drive over varying terrain including a bumpy, windy road and my poor wife developed travel sickness. Of the four other cars we have taken over the same route, only the Grenadier was accompanied by this side effect.

When I was a child, whenever I travelled in our family car I got travel sickness. Dad fixed this by installing a metal impregnated rubber strap that touched the road intermittently. The logic behind this was that static electricity build-up which was inducing the sickness was being discharged to the road by the intermittent touching. I know that jet airliners have probes that point backwards and from the trailing points, static electricity is discharged. This is a real phenomenon and the treatment simple and effective.

Can I have a feeling from other Grenadier drivers about this issue. Is it real and what strategies have you taken to prevent it?

 

[OkGo]

The what now?

 

[bigleonski]

No, never experienced it.
Maybe it’s related to the death wobble, I haven’t had that either?

 

[landmannnn]

Look out of the window. Travel sickness is induced when looking at the interior of a car/ship/plane.

 

[terdrocket]

This truck has special metal impregnated rubber tires that does this.

 

[HeavyFoot]

It’s likely the B-pillar location. It’s pretty far forward relative to most other cars. Was she sitting very far back or low? Lift the seat a little. That may help. I noticed the pillar location while test driving, making a right turn at an angle and leaning forward a bit to see the cars coming. Not an issue for me at all, but could be for some

 

[Zimm]

If you get a tens unit, and put the pads on your temples at level 10, it'll balance your soul's magnetic field with the smart alternator that's causing this by not charging the battery to full. What you're feeling is your soul tearing away from your inner ear due to a low battery charge.

 

[Tenac]

Not caused by static but could be the motion. If you feel as though it is static the person will only need to touch something metal in the vehicle like the body then they will be discharged to the vehicle just like you are supposed to do when you fill our tank with fuel. Touch metal and its solved. FYI airplanes have that static dong because they are avoiding it turning static into RF and interfering with transmission.

 

[anand]

Spent more 14+ hour drive days in a Grenadier than I can count, many of those with my GF in the passenger seat, and never once any sort of motion sickness from the vehicle. Whether seated upright or reclined back and napping

 

[Jiman01]

IME, motion sickness, assuming that's the same as your term for “travel sickness”, is caused by two main factors:

1) Frequency of the motion: Think of a sine wave. Some people cannot tolerate a slow wave action, whereas others get sick when the wave action is sharper. Think of a slow rocking of the sea vs the wave action on a boat during storm.

The same idea translates to a vehicles suspension. My wife and kid could not tolerate the suspension in my Ford Raptor. It had a pretty cushy almost wallow plushness to it. In comparison the Grenadier is much firmer.

2) Vestibular: Body roll around corners is more than other vehicles and the delay in response can affect the senses, since your eyes are seeing one thing but your vestibular system is sensing another. Basically when the truck goes left and the body rolls right, it can start to mess with a persons internal equilibrium when repeated over and over on a curvy road.

 

[TheDocAUS]

Is travel sickness a common feature of driving in a Grenadier? I took one for a test drive over varying terrain including a bumpy, windy road and my poor wife developed travel sickness. Of the four other cars we have taken over the same route, only the Grenadier was accompanied by this side effect.

When I was a child, whenever I travelled in our family car I got travel sickness. Dad fixed this by installing a metal impregnated rubber strap that touched the road intermittently. The logic behind this was that static electricity build-up which was inducing the sickness was being discharged to the road by the intermittent touching. I know that jet airliners have probes that point backwards and from the trailing points, static electricity is discharged. This is a real phenomenon and the treatment simple and effective.

Can I have a feeling from other Grenadier drivers about this issue. Is it real and what strategies have you taken to prevent it?

Only when I cannot drive it remotely as much as I would like!

 

[OkGo]

Personally, I suspect it's the gin. Try switching brands before the next drive.

 

[Tazzieman]

Let your wife drive and see if it happens.
And ban her from looking at her phone whilst passengerising, to coin a word.