Wagon update

[StephenVA]

After reading all the hype on turbos, I have decided to take the plunge and join in the fun on the cheap... Real Cheap.

Overhaul in a can or in this case a plastic jug.

[StephenVA]

Wagon has been doing daily slog grocery runs, shopping by the wife, and general short hops all spring. So it was time for a spa day and a low mileage oil change. Oil service at 3k in two years. Need to replace the shocks and struts this month

[Twistytee]

Wagon has been doing daily slog grocery runs, shopping by the wife, and general short hops all spring. So it was time for a spa day and a low mileage oil change. Oil service at 3k in two years. Need to replace the shocks and struts this month

Are you planning on OE Sachs or something aftermarket? I’m still running Billy Sports with about 80K on them. Not sure what I’ll replace them with when the time comes. My wagon is a sport with bags in the rear and I haven’t noticed significant harshness from the Bilsteins although I know many complain about them being too stiff.

[StephenVA]

I have had the OE Sachs and all the misc parts sitting in a box waiting for event for sometime now. I haven't been driving the wagon much as the shocks are totally gone and they allow zero resistance on extension, so every pot hole feels like a curb.

[CPHES]

Twistytee - you appear in North Carolina. Yellow Bilsteins could work fine. It gets real old in the northeast - 3 degrees F, highway expansion joints, it gets old.

[StephenVA]

bang, whack, bounce!

[Twistytee]

Twistytee - you appear in North Carolina. Yellow Bilsteins could work fine. It gets real old in the northeast - 3 degrees F, highway expansion joints, it gets old.

True, although I’ve lived in western NY, Chicago, IN and driven a variety of sport suspensions in those locations too. I bought the Touring second hand with the Bilsteins already installed so they weren’t my first choice. I’d probably revert to the Sachs next although I had Koni yellows on three of my German cars and really liked their variable dampers. I know they don’t make a wagon specific shock for the rears, and they’ve also discontinued the Yellows for the 6 cylinder e39s and pivoted to the Koni Actives.

[CPHES]

I’m surprised they lived so long. I used to go about 15 / 18 months between failures. I had one due 2 miles from the install shop, one stripped the thread to the yellow housing, it never ended.

[StephenVA]

Washed, detailed interior, treated the leather seats for the 3rd time this year, clay bar, Griots BEST IN SHOW wax, buff and touch the smooth.

Up next, shocks and struts finally!