Bilstein 5100's on my dually?

Thank you cummins, I will check it out.

glamisorbust wrote:
Well, when you spend $40-50k on a truck, it's hard to do upgrades right away when the payment is $700/month. We're not all rich guys, we do what we can when we can do it. I have the truck paid off now, and the ability to do a few upgrades like shocks, so I was just asking as simple question. Maybe the monroe's would work just fine for me.

Go to rockauto.com they are very competitive.

Well, when you spend $40-50k on a truck, it's hard to do upgrades right away when the payment is $700/month. We're not all rich guys, we do what we can when we can do it. I have the truck paid off now, and the ability to do a few upgrades like shocks, so I was just asking as simple question. Maybe the monroe's would work just fine for me.

Bilstein Blue/YEllow = 4600s
Bilstein Silver/Black = 5100s

Both good shocks... Had the 4600s on my last truck (huge improvement) and will be putting 5100s on my new 2012 Dmax very soon

glamisorbust wrote:
My shocks have 105k on them, and they are the OEM junk that came on the truck. I have already been shopping, looks like monroe's are the cheapest, rancho's are a little more and bilstein's are even more. I found the bilstein 5100's for about $62/each online. Has anyone tried the cheap monroe's from o'reilly? Opinions?

I don't get why people buy 40/50K trucks and want to put the cheapest shocks they can find on them. Shocks IMO are one area you don't go cheap on. Nothing can improve the ride more than a good set of shocks, so why go cheap. A good set of shocks like Bilsteins will easily last the life of the truck (unlike OEMs).

glamisorbust wrote:
My shocks have 105k on them, and they are the OEM junk that came on the truck. I have already been shopping, looks like monroe's are the cheapest, rancho's are a little more and bilstein's are even more. I found the bilstein 5100's for about $62/each online. Has anyone tried the cheap monroe's from o'reilly? Opinions?

It would help if you filled in your profile so we knew what your vehicle is.

Factory shocks are junk and are useless right out of the box. Spend the money and get the blue and yellow Bilsteins!

They really helped smooth out some of the bad roads.

I put a full set of monroe reflex on last fall ,lifetime warranty,quite happy with them on my 3500 SRW.

My shocks have 105k on them, and they are the OEM junk that came on the truck. I have already been shopping, looks like monroe's are the cheapest, rancho's are a little more and bilstein's are even more. I found the bilstein 5100's for about $62/each online. Has anyone tried the cheap monroe's from o'reilly? Opinions?

45Ricochet wrote:
Blue and Yellow here also. Anything would be better than OEM's.

I replaced mine last Summer with around 18K and one of the front shocks were leaking!

Factory shocks are junk!

Blue and Yellow here also. Anything would be better than OEM's.