What brand of street shocks do you have?

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Nohaci-
"I have never in my entire life heard of anyone rotating the koni yellows around the car."
Considering I'm in Nieu Amsterdam my Dutch should be better, but it isn't, sorry 'bout that.
I've also never heard or rotating the koni yellows AROUND THE CAR. ROFL! Thank you, my first laugh of the day.<G> I just said "rotate", not rotate around the car like tires. The Koni web site says to adjust them by compressing the shock and then rotating the body of the shock, which will engage an internal screw control. Rotating the body of the shock, not moving them around the car.
Sutter, I agree with you, it shouldn't be complicated. Over the years though, I've found many replacement shocks to be disappointing. Either they ride hard without good control (sold as "sport" shocks mainly to kids) or they go soft quickly (cheap shocks). Like mattresses, you can pretty much sleep on any of them for one or two nights, but a really good one is not easy to find. A couple of folks have mentioned that the KYB stock shocks are, after all, only something like $25 retail price, which means a net price of about $12, which leaves very little room for quality construction, even in something as simple as a hydraulic cylinder.
Somewhere in between that price and over $100 for a single Bilstein...is a point where you can expect quality construction, durability, and a good copy of the OEM ride and rebound. Since I do not have a place where I can work on the car for something that will take this long, I'll also be using a shop, and the shop labor bill will be WAY more than the cost of the shocks, which means I want to do this job once and once only, not do it now and change shocks again every six months if I don't like them, or they leak.