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Old 06-17-2010, 06:18 AM
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I have factory spring and do not want to lower my 05 545 sport. My wheels were rubbing my fenders so i purchased a fender rollerto find out when doing it that my r/f strut is blown out. Most likely the cause of the rubbing. What do you guys recomend. I was thinking bilstein.
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for shocks and struts our first recommendation would be bilsteins as well
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Originally Posted by NeRwEEzy
for shocks and struts our first recommendation would be bilsteins as well
How many miles do you have on it?
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Originally Posted by navin
How many miles do you have on it?
on my personal e60? Ive put about maybe around 30k miles on my bilsteins. I added them after some time running off eibach pro-kit springs with stock shocks.
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Sorry Nerwyll quoted the wrong msg in my post ,
I was referring to the OP as to how many miles he has on the car that the struts were blown out.
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I have bilstien sport shocks and struts and they have been great.
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i have about 60k on it.
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I am using Bilstein, but find them a bit too hard, esp with H&R springs....

Heard good things about Koni though and thinking about changing soon - one of my bilsteins are starting to leak....?!
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I've always ran Koni in my cars, they just work
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