Scheel-man into your Tacoma, new member intro

I just love amount of trash talk in this thread, always fun to read

 

Are you referring to when we first poked our head out last year?

 

Such sick seats! Someday

 

I got about 12-13 hours in seat before I out , i’m sure these would be better

 

OK so not really a Tacoma thing but...

Attention all 100 Series Land Cruiser or LX470 owners, if you are considering scheel-mann seats we've got you covered. We have the SRS airbag light covered and we now have a plug-in harness to keep your OEM seat heater switches working as you'd hope.

Read more about it here:
https://www.tolerance-stack.com/post/tolerance-stack-solves-the-final-piece-of-the-100-series-seat-upgrade-puzzle

 

very nice solution!!!

 

Is there a possibility of insurance telling you to go pound sand if airbag stock seats were replaced with non airbag ones?

 

The reality is that same insurance company can say the same about wheel spacers, bumpers, lifts, etc. Now there is a very gray area of using the NHTSA's own medical exemption regulations in order to "turn off the airbag". Its an exemption written before side airbags and thus not prohibited from the exemption. Therefore you could use their exemption to "turn off" the side airbag and by removing the airbag and seat you are effectively doing just that. We are testing it now with a couple in their 70s. Cannot go into any detail about their specific issue but once the NHTSA gives them the green light we will report back.

Here is the form: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/airbagswitchrequestform_03012017_v3.pdf

 

Repair bills aren’t a big deal. Medical bills on the other hand…I don’t think anyone wants to hear “if you didn’t take out the airbags, your spine wouldn’t sustain such injury”. Keep us posted.

 

The reality is there are exemptions and we are dealing with one now.