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Old 05-14-2011, 03:54 PM
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Where's the best place to get them. My price at the dealer is $600 just seeing if there was someone cheaper. Just put my mm spacers and 20s on and with 4 big guys in the car the trailing arms rub the wheels
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kyb's are $97.79 each at rockauto. I don't know if if there is a problem going to aftermarket because of the load leveling thing, but maybe someone here can chime in if they have tried them and they did not work well. I plan on trying kyb on all four corners when the time comes, so anybody else's input would be appreciated from me also.
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KYBs would be a downgrade.
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If you don't have the money and need to go with kyb's. They are a decent shock. Bilstein makes them
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call Luke at Lindsey Cadillac, I want to say for one side it was about 200 or so
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IF you need just shocks, I'll have my 85k mile FE4 from my 2004 for sale soon...
...no leaks...will have mechanic verify if needed...

check back with me in a week, pm directly.
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thanks guys my car has 151k miles on it dont know when the previous owner did shocks last as i bought it wholesale from a dealership. i get shop cost on parts at my dealer but i wanted to see if there was a better price out there
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Originally Posted by UnsafeAtAnySpd
KYBs would be a downgrade.
Why? I'm not disagreeing, but I hear so much on this forum about the struts/shocks being crap and going out every 40k I assumed going aftrrmarket could help.

Are there better aftermarket options other than coilovers?
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Wanting to clarify something I've been told the rear shocks are load leveling but the guys at the dealer say the aren't and just called the sport suspension shocks
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they ARE load leveling



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