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  1. 16th February 2011, 01:58 PM #1
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    Bilstein shock guards

    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 $$.

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  2. 16th February 2011, 02:33 PM #2
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    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.

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  3. 16th February 2011, 02:51 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tusker View Post
    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.

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

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  4. 16th February 2011, 03:05 PM #4
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    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
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    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.
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  6. 16th February 2011, 03:29 PM #6
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    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.
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