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08-13-2016, 11:50 AM | #1 |
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Bilstein B12 kit, back to stock springs?
I put the Bilstein b12 kit on 18 months ago and have put 22,000 miles on the setup. yesterday over some rough road I developed a clunk. Pulled the front wheels off and everything seems firm, endlinks, sway bar bushings, no really play. But there is oil all over the right front strut tower. the piston rod in the damper is soaked in oil, all under the dust cover, and there is recently fresh oil dripping down that whole side).
The Prokit springs are a little firm for a daily driver with the road conditions around me and was thinking about putting the stock springs back on while I'm replacing the blown strut. I need to put another 40,000 miles on the car. stock shocks are gone. they had 100k miles and were shot.
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The "B6" version of the bilsteins would be a better fit for stock non-sport springs. The M-sport/sport springs if you had those stock are lower than non-sport, you might be ok running those with the B8 shocks...but I'd still not want to do it. Sorry to hear about the blown shock, that's very rare especially only at 22K miles of use. Bilsteins are generally rock solid for way longer than that. Good luck. |
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yeah. I'm kind of disappointing with it. at the same time, the road conditions I've been driving on have been awful, especially on the right side of the vehicle. Seems like every nasty pot hole i hit is on the passenger side and I've had some nasty hits. I still need to find a place to get a cost for a single bilstein strut. depending on cost, I may just replace the front's with the OEM sport package dampers sell the prokit springs and cut my losses.
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