Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:43:45 -0800
Reply-To: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Anyone Win those new Syncro OM EMU - Now Bilstein HD
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While we're on the subject of Bilsteins.......
For quite some time, I've searched the archives and my own saved mail, but I still can't confirm that there are HD Bilsteins for the Syncro.....in fact it appears to be the opposite, there are no HD Bilsteins for the Syncro.
If I'm wrong and there are HD Bilsteins for the Syncro, please let the list know. And posting the Bilstein part number would be appreciated as well, since the local tire store will likely not be able to figure out the correct set.
Thanks a lot, Anthony
'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
> Subject: Re: Anyone Win those new Syncro OM EMU shocks on ebay?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 3:12 PM
> 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
> >
> > .
>
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