Bilstein shock guards

[harro]

Has anybody fitted these to a defender?
My new shocks arrived today and I was wondering if the guards are needed.
Or would I be just wasting my $$.

Cheers,
Paul.

[Tusker]

Over say 300,000 maybe 400,000 kms over two landies incl many outback & other trips, I've never had a Bilstein failure. No dented casings, no overheating collapse.

And I'm loathe to fit a guard in case the lack of air cooling pushes the oil temps too high. In fact I have been seen occasionally washing off the accumulation of mud off the Bilsteins on a long trip, if corrugations are anticipated.

Regards
Max P

[harro]

Over say 300,000 maybe 400,000 kms over two landies incl many outback & other trips, I've never had a Bilstein failure. No dented casings, no overheating collapse.

And I'm loathe to fit a guard in case the lack of air cooling pushes the oil temps too high. In fact I have been seen occasionally washing off the accumulation of mud off the Bilsteins on a long trip, if corrugations are anticipated.

Regards
Max P

Thanks Max,
that is exactly what I was hoping to hear;)

Cheers,
Paul.

[PAT303]

Mine were then same,never had an issue.A good idea is to fit truck mud flaps to the front to cut down the amount of rocks etc being thrown back. Pat

[isuzurover]

Same here - mine have done ~180k km, including the canning, gibb, etc, etc and plenty of serious 4x4ing in between.

Also - the guards would make the shocks run hotter on corrugations.

[mark2]

While they are single tube, its fairly heavy wall and hard to see how a stone could dent them. I'm sure someone somewhere has managed to dent them somehow but it would be unlikely.