i purchased my bilstein hd's from buy parts link above, my car is a c230 from 1998. my car had the sachs as oem, but everyone seemed to think bilstein were better then stock. if i wanted to replace my shocks with the exact same as when new, i think the dealer would have been the only source for them and the price would have been accordingly higher.


i would guess the bilstein hd's are closer to original stiffness to your sport suspension as compared to my stock shocks.

my car now has 101k miles and could probably use new engine mounts, in terms of cornering the bilstein hd's seem to make my car handle well, but i seem to pick up more sensations over road irregularties now then when my suspension was new.