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You need to get them to try these.



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Do the seats suck that much?

I've been in some vehicles that the seats suck so bad I cant stand to be in them.

VW atlas... your family is telling you very nicely you suck at the head of household. Go buy something else.
 
One thing not mentioned so far is static electricity. I had a car once that my x wife got queasy in all the time driving or not, it was so bad on her we couldn't road trip in it. The car never made me sick but holy fuck would I ever get a shock out of it sometimes, like see the spark kinda shock.

My dad mentioned to me I needed some static straps when he got a shock. I figured what the hell do I have to lose and threw some on. Shocks went away and xwife no longer got car sick when in the thing. I always wondered what would cause the static electricity and all I could ever come up with was it might have been a shit set of tires.
 
I rode in my bosses Atlas once, it was not a long ride but I could easily see what they are saying. The car had a weird feel to it, the lines of sight were off too. How new is it? I have not sat in a WV that I found comfortable ever.
 
junkytj said:
My guess is shitty glass. One of my friends had a thunderbird that had a funky curve in the glass and I was OK as long as I didn't look out that glass. Unfortunatelt it was the windshield and the distortion happened at my eye level.
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This is my thought. Either wavy glass or the polarization or filtering of the glass or tint screwing with your eyeballs. One of the very few times Ive ever been sea sick was on this sportfisher that had some funky filtered glass on it. Holy jeebus I blew chunks like vesuvius and had to go out on the fly. I was fine on the flybridge but as soon as I would go inside and look out through the glass I was chummin.
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junkytj said:
My guess is shitty glass. One of my friends had a thunderbird that had a funky curve in the glass and I was OK as long as I didn't look out that glass. Unfortunatelt it was the windshield and the distortion happened at my eye level.
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Had this happen to me. Buddy had a fiero back in the day and I couldn't ride in it without getting sick because the windshield had a funky curve in it.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Unless you have the hatch open a leaking seal by itself won't be an issue. Trust me I drive a lot of shitboxes. That said, a little bit of that plus a whole lot of new plastic and it's headache city.

Definitely try cruising windows down for awhile and see what happens.
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dunno brew
golf has a smashed up rearend from the PO, exhaust gets in unless I have it sidepiped
I've forgotten this fact a couple times and put a muffler on it only to immediately remember how fucking horrible it is, atop that opening the windows only makes the cabin pressure go down so it sucks in more sleepy sauce

jetta wagon (somewhat different profile on the rearend) is getting some rust holes through the hatch, same deal, only way I can drive it is with the blower on max and the windows closed.
Fucking sucks because normally I will drive with my window down damn near year round
 
DozerDan82 said:
I rode in my bosses Atlas once, it was not a long ride but I could easily see what they are saying. The car had a weird feel to it, the lines of sight were off too. How new is it? I have not sat in a WV that I found comfortable ever.
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If you sit low in a car or the side and dash lines are higher then normal it can screw with your sense of the horizon and cause car sickness. I get this when co riding in race razers, it's almost instant. I sit to low in the cars and the dash and side bars are above what a normal vehicle is and boom, car sick.
 
Weasel said:
If you sit low in a car or the side and dash lines are higher then normal it can screw with your sense of the horizon and cause car sickness. I get this when co riding in race razers, it's almost instant. I sit to low in the cars and the dash and side bars are above what a normal vehicle is and boom, car sick.
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Makes sense, as I felt I saw too much. Mirror, window sill, dash, windshield, other mirror, floor, door panel. It was just odd, and very 'floaty' on top of that.
 
Plastics? Roll the windows down for an hour and see if they get better.


I get horrible sick if I'm confined with neoprene. Boss bought neoprene seat covers and I couldn't be in the trucks for more than 15 minutes without getting sick as hell.

Changed my truck to cordura covers and left it in the shop for a week with the doors open to air out. Never had an issue since. Just can't get in most other guys trucks without leaving the window full down.
 
Car sick= VW ....and not in the good way. /thread.
 
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We had a loader with a moldy cabin filter. Made you feel like absolute garbage if you ran it with the ac on.

All I got....
 
DozerDan82 said:
I rode in my bosses Atlas once, it was not a long ride but I could easily see what they are saying. The car had a weird feel to it, the lines of sight were off too. How new is it? I have not sat in a WV that I found comfortable ever.
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I agree it's something design related. I haven't spent more than a minute in one (across the lot into the shop and back out) and they just don't feel right, had an immediately dislike and it wasn't the normal "This is a piece of shit late model VW" dislike.
 
Maybe the glass is crappy? I’ve had some rental cars that had incredible waviness in the front glass causing slightly distorted viewing. And it was OEM glass. Volvo S40 was the worst.
 
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