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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
Yep, can't tell anything without a complete inspection.
I have Bilstein for all 3 of my sports cars. My experience with them is, like you say, they last longer than any other brand I've tried. Other brands were good when new (KYB and Koni to name a couple), but wore out quick. I have yet to wear out a set of Bilsteins.
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Yeah, someone else's less used OE takeoffs is a close second to Bilstein but only if they're cheap as again you'll probably get much less than 100k miles out of them and they're not rebuild-able. I want to try Koni's but I know they don't have the same rep as Bilstein and are prone to leaking pretty early on (whether that's by user error or QC who really knows) as well as there's no real need to adjust for the average owner.
Dampers are tricky beasts, it's easy to think 'it rides exactly the same!' without realizing that the degradation is a very very slow process, so even if the OP is being taken for a ride and the mechanic just wants some easy work with a high price tag (I mean, around here, easily charge 4 hours of labor + alignment could be anywhere from $500-$1,000 to someone not willing to fight back on the costs) a fresh(er) set of dampers is probably going to be a noticeable improvement at ~125k miles.
But the description of 'easily push up the wheel' is an odd way to show it and I'm not sure how to take that...