Well like I posted earlier , I felt I went backwards replacing the stock 7 year old gas shocks on the front with koni fsd's
According to Henderson's the koni shocks works on the rebound , so basically it works like old oil filled (hydrolic ? ) shocks of yester-year.. Newer shocks are gas charged like the Bilstein's ,,, NOT the koni's.
I had made the comment awhile back on another post how right out of the box I could easily compress/decompress the shocks by hand.
The Bilstein's among other gas charged shocks come zip tied about half compressed and you better be quick to get them lined up and bolt started through the eye hole before they go to full extend. Which is no big deal you can compress them with both hands and little grunting lol or have a small jack handy to compress them to line up the bolt holes.
Back to my experience after installing the koni's ..
So when your driving down the road and hit a dip the front end does the ol dive down and according to Henderson's that's where the koni's are suppose to give the comfort ride ( what others are calling best of both worlds). I get the boat in the water drunken sailor feeling when the front end dives down in the dips and comes up soft kinda wallering .. Lack of better words to describe it.
Whereas with the Bilstein's you hit the dip in the road you get just a bit of dive but a nice firm feeling the suspension is working right unlike the koni' s where the whole front suspension feels like it bottoms out ( compresses ) then goes into full decompress and now you have this uneasy feeling in the steering until it settles back down.
That's my personal experience with the koni's.
Not happy with them , nor would I recommend them.
