Shock absorbers Bilstein or GABRIEL

Bilstein Shock absorbers
ReadTheBook
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Rating 5.0

As an FYI, my car is lowered on VWR (almost twice the drop of driver gear) and has Bilstein B8 shocks as well, no other mods aside from the. I had zero problems with a Hunter drive-on alignment rack, and my tech was able to set the alignment to proper spec w/o issue. Car drives great.

Pros: Car drives great
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Bilstein Shock absorbers
NH69_GP13
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Rating 5.0

Bilsteins - I have experience with since they were on my 2005 GLI from the factory and I loved how they handled. You could take that car into 45 mph corners at 60 and not a bit of sway or worry.

Pros: loved how they handled
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Bilstein Shock absorbers
marshy
  • Body bounce:
Rating 5.0

Finally got around to replacing the original worn out shocks. They had 83k miles and 13 years on them! I decided to go with the Bilstein HDs. In my opinion the ride is nearly perfect now. Virtually no bounce or see-sawing when going over speed humps.

Pros: nearly perfect ride
Vehicle: Volkswagen
Mileage: 133577 km
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Bilstein Shock absorbers

Sounds like you would be most happy with Bilstein Comfort/Touring shocks (B4). The Bilstein Sport and HD shocks will provide a much stiffer ride. Having tried the Bilstein HDs, I really didn't care for them at all on my W126. The Bilstein Comfort shocks still improved the handling immensely over the original circa 1987 front shocks on my 560SEL.

Pros: improved handling
Cons: stiffer ride
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Bilstein Shock absorbers
pyce
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Rating 3.0

As you all can see, the dyno showed how the TC Sport are (as also advertised) pretty close to stock, if we look at the compression. The rebound is quiet more than stock thought. But from the graphs is pretty clear that the TC is not any near the advertised 10 or 20% stiffer than stock

Pros: rebound more than stock
Cons: not 10-20% stiffer
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