re
Anyone know how to tell when Bilsteins are
shot?  Maybe when the yellow paint turns"rusty" brown?

I put 100,000 miles on a set of four new HD Bilsteins on a 2WD 5 speed TD
Vanagon.
I felt they had lost their 'crispness' .......they still worked, but they
didn't deliver 'magic' like they did the first few years - a perfect combo
of nice supple ride, and good control on pumps and dips.
  They still worked though, and most people would think they were fine, but
they'd lost say, 30 % of their magic after 1 00K miles in my seat of the
pants estimation.  But they still damped.

Scott
turbovans

----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Wellhouse" <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:57 PM
Subject: Anyone Win those new Syncro OM EMU shocks on ebay?

>I was watching them and the set of 4 were at $124 with a day or so
> left.  Advertised as brand new and never installed.  Hoping someone
> got a good deal on them.
>
> I won an Ebay auction for a set of  4 "used" Bilstein HD's for the GL
> that had 3,000 miles on  them for $125.  The standard duty Bilsteins
> I have on my GL now are 8 years old and they were taken off an 87 GL
> which I have no idea how many miles they had on them when I did the
> transplant back then.  Anyone know how to tell when Bilsteins are
> shot?  Maybe when the yellow paint turns"rusty" brown?
>
> Considering that the cheapest new Bilstein HD's I could find on line
> were $265 for the full set, this auction worked out pretty well for
> our post holiday budget situation.
>
> DM&FS
>
> .