Your Comments About Brands Of Shock Absorbers?

Bilstein 5100 on my stock height dually since it was one month old. Great shocks w/lifetime warranty. Zinc plated 5100s can be used on stock height trucks OR on trucks with up to 2 inches of lift. I wanted the extra protection the zinc coating and gators provides.

Bilstein Yellow/Blue for stock height, Silver/Black for raised. Every vehicle I've changed over to Bilstein's has made a WORLD of difference to the ride/handling qualities. I'm sold!!!

edit -- I have to add, I used to live in southern Baja and every vehicle used to chew through shocks in 6 months --- until I switched to Bilstein's (at the recommendation of a Baja Racing friend). That was my first intro to Bilstein's and I'll never look back. They took the Baja beating and just kept working great.

Don,

To get a softer ride without sacrificing handling means more $$. The Koni FSD has two sets of valves in it. That allows quite a lot less dampening over small, sharp bumps yet more dampening over the large ones. No rocket science, but they are more expensive to make that way.

Might ask others with same chassis on Class C section of the forum who have upgraded to either Bilstein or Koni for their observations. Ask them to tell you what shocks they had before and what difference they have experienced.

I have had bad ecperience with ranchos back in the mid 80's.

2 chevys trucks I owned came with bilsteins from the factory and I was always happy with them..

With that said I just bought a newer truck and took the GM factory **** out and installed bilsteins. Towing now is night and day to the old shocks. Unloaded these shocks perform 100% better. Handling and ride..

See post here.


http://forums.woodalls.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/29041868/gotomsg/29051110.cfm#29051110

wolfe10,

What would you recommend for a 28'5" class C E-450 176" wheel base which weighs in at 13,600 pounds. I want it to ride much less harshly, particularly on washboard roads.

Love the Bilstein's I recently put on our 24' Class C. Based upon their recommendation I went with the heavy duty models as we frequently run near GVWR and or tow my Harley. The improvement in ride and handling are off the chart.

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I went with Fox 2.0 over Bilstein based on recommendations on the Duramax forums and conversations with several vendors. Very happy with the results. That being said, we run Bilstein on my wife's Frontier and it handles really well with them. Probably can't go wrong with either brand and Bilstein has the better warranty.

YEP......Bilsteins

No one shock company makes the best shock for all applications.

Said another way, I like Bilsteins on some applications, Koni FSD's on others.

What vehicle are you shopping for? Looking more for comfort or handling/performance?

Put bills on my truck at 100k and it made no change. OEM must be really good or ....
Next set for the truck will be KYB Monomax. I absolutely loved these (KYB gas-a-just)on my old 1970 Mach 1