I recently purchased a set of Bilstein shocks for my F-250 from this e-bay
seller.  I haven't installed them yet but he had the best price I could
find, shipped them quickly and NO sales tax to my WA address helped offset
the shipping charge! YRMV

I'm using Boge's (OEM I believe) on my 85 Vanagon Westy and noticed a huge
difference over the two year old KYB's that were on it when I bought it.
The Boge's weren't cheap but I'm thoroughly satisfied after two years and
15K.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Florian Speier
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:40 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Front Shock Absorbers

hi list,

there is another cheap great option: there is a guy on ebay selling
bilsteins for vanagons for 209$ a set with buy-it-now, plus 29 shipping
(ouch). i have bilsteins in my van in the front and its absolutely great
(KYB in the back as i was out of money). however i can only compare to the
stock ones i took out at 128000miles.

here is the link to the ebay auction, if they are gone they will reappear,
it seems, or just mail the guy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BILSTEIN-SHOCKS-VW-VANAGON-79-91-FULL-SET_W0Q
QcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33590QQitemZ8019002758QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

i am not affiliated or anything.

florian