where's cheapest i can get bilstein b8 rear dampers??

[tinnaM42]

cheapest i found is £92 from demon tweeks.

[Cook318IS]

Thats excluding VAT aswell isnt it? Motorsportworld do them for about £95 each including vat.

[tinnaM42]

is that each!!!!! i thought it was for the pair!!

[Cook318IS]

Yup! The full b8 front and rear dampers come in and just under £500 for all 4!
At the bottom of demon tweeks page...

PLEASE NOTE DAMPERS ARE SOLD SINGULARLY AND ARE PRICED AS EACH

[tinnaM42]

gutted thats pissed on my bonfire i was gona go buy these monday havin second thoughts now whats the best next thing?

[Kos]

try automac


http://www.automac.co.uk/

[tinnaM42]

cant seem to find them on plug??

[Kos]

auto mac is the company


plugging them is banned on here for some stupid reason

www. auto mac . co.uk

[Kos]

or click on the plug link lol

it still works

[e30topless]

Jay
I have a really good pair of black billies here, (not B8's)
you can have them if they are any good to you ?

[fuzzy]

the cheapest place when i bought my bilsteins was the old zone shop. i cant remember what theyre called now but the quote was £50 per pair cheaper than the next cheapest quote delivered.

[Cook318IS]

http://www.automac.co.uk/product/B-B8%20E30%20sprint

£465 for a full kit is pretty good! Its normally that price plus VAT or am i missing something? it doesnt add any VAT at the checkout on the site

The old zone shop is www.evo-s.co.uk but they don't list e30 anymore

[Kos]

they've gone up in price

you can get a good discount in some places with the bmw car club membership

[tinnaM42]

yeh sounds good they'll get me out of trouble for now for now i need to pop up and see the beast aswll! its looking good man!

[Kos]

best give auto mac a call

[clarko74]

I bought a full set recently through the bmw car club, (but they actually came from Auto mac) cost £410 with next day delivery. ECP also quoted me £410, that includes vat and a 20% discount on the rrp but no delivery (I always call my local branch as they seem more willing to discount stuff than the central mail order branch). The only other place that came close to that price that I could find was Kamracing (£413ish iirc).

Remember that vat goes back up to 17.5% in the new year which will add almost a tenner to something of that price.

[bss325i]

I guess i was lucky to pay £300 for all four from evolve two years ago!

[The_Diddler]

I guess i was lucky to pay £300 for all four from evolve two years ago!

You can go off people you know

I paid £570 for my B12 Kit from Balance Motorsport, was the best price i could find after much looking, please if anybody does find it cheaper please keep to themselves

[Cook318IS]

I paid £570 for my B12 Kit from Balance Motorsport, was the best price i could find after much looking, please if anybody does find it cheaper please keep to themselves

is it too late for a refund if say for example somebody has found it cheaper

[e30topless]

sorry Paul,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bilstein-suspensi ... 4a9cbf6fb1

[The_Diddler]

sorry Paul,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bilstein-suspensi ... 4a9cbf6fb1

Nearly Steve , that kit is for 45mm struts

[e30topless]

was hoping you wouldn't spot that

[bss325i]

I guess i was lucky to pay £300 for all four from evolve two years ago!

You can go off people you know

I paid £570 for my B12 Kit from Balance Motorsport, was the best price i could find after much looking, please if anybody does find it cheaper please keep to themselves

I bought the B8's, some eibach 35mm's and H&R roll bars for £720.

[e30topless]

OT
but what diameter are the H&R's baz ? (i imagine it's the same as Hartge ARB's?) where would i get ARB bushes for them ?

[bss325i]

OT
but what diameter are the H&R's baz ? (i imagine it's the same as Hartge ARB's?) where would i get ARB bushes for them ?

Pass.

I've never measured them.

[clarko74]

I guess i was lucky to pay £300 for all four from evolve two years ago!

You can go off people you know

I paid £570 for my B12 Kit from Balance Motorsport, was the best price i could find after much looking, please if anybody does find it cheaper please keep to themselves

I bought the B8's, some eibach 35mm's and H&R roll bars for £720.

I've just bought exactly the same setup over the past couple of weeks and it cost £880 in total, and that was with a fair bit of shopping around. But what can we do? we've been shafted by the exchange rates over the past couple of years so pretty much anything imported has risen considerably in price. I bought a couple of camera lenses a couple of years ago that I would now be able to sell second hand for more than I paid new.

OT
but what diameter are the H&R's baz ? (i imagine it's the same as Hartge ARB's?) where would i get ARB bushes for them ?

H&R arbs are 22mm and 18mm. No idea where to get replacement bushes from though, I would hope that H&R could supply them.

[Simon13]

The bushes come with the H&R bars if you buy them new.

I remember buying some B6 dampers new from ECP at their HQ and we haggled like fook got the fronts for £100 each and the rears £90 for the pair! And some ATE power discs for £25 for the pair. Twas a good hehehe

[bss325i]

That suck! I hope i wont need to buy any B8's soon!

BTW, Adrian you will love the suspension when its all fitted with new bushes!

[e30topless]

cheers,
so if H&R's are 22mm Eibach ARB's are probably 22mm too ? I think standard sport/325i's have 20mm

Mr 13, IIRC. don't you have a Hartge ARB fitted to the front of the tourer ? what bushes did you use?

[Simon13]

Hartge front and rear bars, front is the same as all the others 22mm and 3 way adjust, i have them on the stiffest.

Rear is 16mm and non adjust. I used the bushes that came with them. They were "new" old stock from Birds £100 love it! They are poly iirc and purple to match the blue bars

[tinnaM42]

so whats the next best thing to b8 guys??

[Simon13]

B6's

[tinnaM42]

is there a big comparrison in these price wise?

[Simon13]

i don't know but if your going for a 60mm drop your better off with them instead of B8's imo

[tinnaM42]

its gona be a 40mm drop. i already have bought the b8's for the front jus shoppin round and wanting to kno whats the best i could go for the rear obviously b8's would be ideal but im wanting to save a few pennies