I love my TREG but I want to be able to occasionally tow my 7000lb (loaded) enclosed car trailer with it. With a tongue weight of ~700-800lbs there is just too much sag in the rear suspension.
Please chip in if you have any experience or specific knowledge, but here's what I want to do.... and here's my offer. If you help me think this through, I'll be guinea pig and if it works, quite frankly I think there can be a lot of interest.
1) I want to buy some remanufactured REAR air suspension struts for the 2011-13 Touareg. (Several on Ebay.)
2) Instead of all the complex OEM electronics, etc, I want to hook these up to a wireless Air Lift 72000 system. For those not familiar - here is the kit.
Air Lift 72000 Remote Wireless Air Compressor System
I currently use this same Air Lift 72000 on my F150 and it works flawlessly. I can choose any air pressure - even a different air pressure left and right (if I wanted to) and the system maintains that precise air pressure until you change it.
The more I think about it, the more I think this will work. I have a couple of questions for those in the know:
1) What is the approximate min and max air pressures in the OEM system?
2) Looking at pics of the OEM air shocks, I want to make sure that I can somehow adapt the air-input fitting to something "normal". In the pics, they have a ~6" pigtail air line but does anybody know what type of connector they use? I just don't want it to be some odd-ball VW-only thing. If I can connect into it, then I think my idea will work.
Comments welcome....
Please chip in if you have any experience or specific knowledge, but here's what I want to do.... and here's my offer. If you help me think this through, I'll be guinea pig and if it works, quite frankly I think there can be a lot of interest.
1) I want to buy some remanufactured REAR air suspension struts for the 2011-13 Touareg. (Several on Ebay.)
2) Instead of all the complex OEM electronics, etc, I want to hook these up to a wireless Air Lift 72000 system. For those not familiar - here is the kit.
Air Lift 72000 Remote Wireless Air Compressor System
I currently use this same Air Lift 72000 on my F150 and it works flawlessly. I can choose any air pressure - even a different air pressure left and right (if I wanted to) and the system maintains that precise air pressure until you change it.
The more I think about it, the more I think this will work. I have a couple of questions for those in the know:
1) What is the approximate min and max air pressures in the OEM system?
2) Looking at pics of the OEM air shocks, I want to make sure that I can somehow adapt the air-input fitting to something "normal". In the pics, they have a ~6" pigtail air line but does anybody know what type of connector they use? I just don't want it to be some odd-ball VW-only thing. If I can connect into it, then I think my idea will work.
Comments welcome....
