Bilstein B8

Performance you can feel and see.

What lowering or sport springs are to aesthetics, BILSTEIN B8 is to performance!

The product benefits at a glance:

• Shortened high-performance shock absorbers for
  virtually every lowering spring set and series production sport vehicles
• Sports settings with high level of comfort
• Marked improvement in safety and performance
  with additional spring changes (lowering)
• Precision handling and optimised vehicle control
• BILSTEIN gas pressure technology
• BILSTEIN mono-tube/Upside-Down technology, made in Germany
• Road-tested by BILSTEIN and fine-tuned

Papenburg/Nürburgring

20,832 kilometres through the 'Grüne Hölle': like subjecting a suspension to a Hamburg-Munich trip every day for a year, only faster!

Some combinations are simply unbeatable. Take, for example, the "Genius on wheels" plus the "Grüne Hölle": Walter Röhrl on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring.

Both the Nürburgring and the test centre in Papenburg offer us the ideal opportunity to carry out extensive tests using a variety of vehicles with different loads. High speed, cobblestones, rain - you can be sure that a BILSTEIN suspension unit meets the toughest demands. After all, it's already been through hell.

Gas Pressure Technology

Over time, the mono-tube gas pressure technology developed by BILSTEIN has established itself as a standard in automotive construction. This technology involves keeping the oil in the absorber under pressure, which prevents it from foaming when temperatures and loads are increasing. As a result, full damping power is retained even when the system is placed under extreme stress, a feature that can be observed in the self-lowering piston.

• Ensures a high level of traction and more precise handling
• A must-have for powerful sport suspensions
• Added safety in all dynamic driving situations

BILSTEIN´s mono-tube technology

The original and best: The original mono-tube gas pressure shock absorbers bore the BILSTEIN name, and we’re still responsible for producing the best there is. BILSTEIN’s mono-tube technology is the number-one choice in motorsports and series-production sports cars: no other type gives engineers the same freedom to choose the perfect installation location or position (e.g. Upside-Down technology).

• Large effective surface on the working piston creates increased damping power and better handling
• Improved dissipation of thermal energy outwards enables a consistently high level of absorber performance
• Sturdy structure for added safety in Upside-Down Technology

Road-Tested by BILSTEIN

To achieve that celebrated BILSTEIN driving experience, our BILSTEIN engineers rely on not only technology that is truly at the cutting edge, but also something that has withstood the test of time: how it feels to the driver. As a result, all of our high-performance absorbers, as well as our sport suspensions and threaded ride height adjustable kits, undergo a rigorous testing programme.

On the Nürburgring and in our own test centre at the Papenburg test track, our drivers test how balanced the driving characteristics of various vehicles are in a variety of different driving situations. Only when they have passed this programme of tests with distinction are they allowed to bear the BILSTEIN name. This way, we can guarantee that celebrated BILSTEIN driving experience.