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944 Turbo Replacement Shock Absorbers

Quarterflash

Quarterflash

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Have any 944 Turbo owners replaced their shock absorbers and if so what did they use, Koni, Bilstein etc. Is there even a recognised replacement set?
I have the M030 Koni adjustables but they must have done over 160,00 miles and I would like a complete new set.
Thanks
Q
 
To replace M030, you can get originals from Porsche or take yours off and send them to Koni think they can rebuild them

From Porsche the front M030 Shocks are £728.00 each, the rears are £235 each, so with other bits you will also need to replace, think about 2K should cover it
 
Oh how things have changed

the 944 wiper linkage arms used to be a few quid each, not any more, the short one is about £45, and the long one £69
 
Quarterflash said:
Have any 944 Turbo owners replaced their shock absorbers and if so what did they use, Koni, Bilstein etc. Is there even a recognised replacement set?
I have the M030 Koni adjustables but they must have done over 160,00 miles and I would like a complete new set.
Thanks
Q
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Yes, I had the sachs/Boge late turbo set up on my car - replaced it with a new original set at just shy of 100K miles with eibach/tech art springs on the front. Replaced those with leda (road biased no coils on rear) at around 140k miles. Then around 180k broke a rear leda on the bump exiting the M5 onto the A417 - its a big bump and I was making decent progress - it went quite violently to full extension - opening the fixing loop on the bottom of the shock - the leda rears were slightly shorter than the factory units.
Replaced the rears with Bilstein B6 which actually worked quite nicely with the leda fronts. Have lightly used KW to try next.
At some point I also went to 968 mo30 anti roll bars and I have had 2 sets of KLA top mounts (not much difference in noise but the bearings wear out - despite my neoprene - cut from mouse mat - protection below them) My KWs came with adjustable top mounts.
A rebuild on the konis will be your most cost effective option.
Tony

 
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