Bilstein 5100 Series Shocks

This is my fourth set of bilsteins, and I love them. Daily driver with off road excursions monthly. Until I can afford coil overs, these work great, no complaints

I knew I had to replace my shocks on my 97 Jeep Wrangler. As asked some members from a Jeep Club I belong to and I received a few different suggestions, overall Bilstein's seem to be a popular choice. After further research Bilstein 5100 Series was the consensus...I am extremely happy with my choice.

I have a sport jk that had new rubicon oem takeoffs on a 3” teraflex lift and 34” bfgs. This was a big difference over stock. A year later after saving I replaced them w the bilsteins... even better. Combined with the new stabilizer the ride is so much better. Have not taken them off road yet so I cant comment on that yet. Definitely recommend

Really like the gas charged shocks. Big improvement in ride quality.

Got 2011 wrangler with 2"lift and 315 70/r17 tires. Made a big change in ride quality and side to side sway.

Put them on and went straight off road. Handled everything I could throw at them and did great. Smooth ride on & off road.

Installed on a '93 YJ with a SOA. dramatically improved the ride. Only complaint is there werent any instructions on how to tighten the top nut w/o the piston spinning. I used vice grips to grip the shock boot lip (cushioned with a glove in between to help keep it from damaging) and the tightened the top bolt. It did leave a small mark (not visible with boot pulled up). Afterwards a buddy told me that I could have used an Allen wrench on the top and then tighten the nut. Jus wished that was in the instructions.

Bit of a challenge to install, but not real hard. It's easier if you have 2 people. Removing the old rear shocks was really the hardest part as bolt rust easy there. Tip, installing new ones you can use a ratchet strap to compress the shock to get it in there. Felt a bit better on road that the what I replaced it with. Then I took it going about 30mph down a bumpy dirt road... wow what a difference! Can actually cruise down that now without getting majorly knocked around.

Bilsteins are great shocks but their instructions are garbage. After 20 minutes of trying to install the front shocks i realized there is an allen wrench nut spot so you can get the bolt to tighten. It would be nice if they included the allen wrench so you would get the idea

Overall the install on the front took about 3 hours for both sides. It is a little harder to install on the passenger side due to the access of the top of the shock is blocked by the battery and power distribution panel. Anyone using this product will not be disappointed in the performance of the shock. My Jeep is up about 2.5" over factory and handles better than the stock ride.