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Anyone have experience on Boge gas or Koni reds? Looking for a firm but not jarring ride that bilstein sports can at times emit. Currently on H & R only springs and stock shocks, which I currently enjoy , but stock shocks will soon need to be replaced.

BrazBenz

I am replacing my stock shocks for stock shocks.
The text below is from the last post of the thread of Club202 where I asked for the p/ns.
It ended up that FOR MY CAR only Sachs offered a truly stock reference.

Jorge


Oz,
Many thanks for the great links.
My problem is not the MB P/Ns - I do have them.
In essence: I am looking for either Bilstein or Sachs STOCK shocks for my C280 Elegance 1997.
As of now I concluded that Bilstein does not offer them with their own P/N. (although you may find Bilsteins delivered to MB and packaged with MB P/Ns as previously pointed out)
The Bilstein Comfort line is the one from where supposedly these shocks should come from. But, again, I was unable to find Comforts for the C280 97 shock P/Ns.

On the other hand I have good news on the Sachs side: thru a cross reference from their site I was able to discover SPECIFIC Sachs P/Ns for the MB P/Ns used in my C280:

The shocks are:
MB 202 323 33 00 / Sachs 170.452 (front)
MB 202 326 27 00 / Sachs 170.450 (rear )

At Autohaus Az the 170.452 gives me a L4000-181129 (also Sachs).
Given that several shock brands have L4000 P/Ns I think they were recoded by some big distributor. The bad side is that I didn't find a catalog with the exact correspondence to have a double check.
A second point that is worth to mention: for the several different P/Ns MB has issued and gradually replaced by newer ones we may get also a 170.450 as the front shocks. The 170.452 refers to the last P/N published.
Thanks to all for your support.