E89 Front Shock Absorbers

philip27 · Post by **philip27** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:05 pm

My Z4 needs the front shock absorbers replacing both are leaking slightly. Anyone got any ideas on how much it would cost to get them replaced?

Also are there are any diagrams of the front suspension assembly I have been looking online to try and see how it all fits together.

My car is on a 59 plate and is a 23i. I believe they all have the active suspension setup.

Maniac · Post by **Maniac** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:17 pm

Active suspension is an optional extra, most cars have fixed non adaptive suspension. You can tell the difference by a bell shaped protrusion at the base of each shocker.

The shockers therefore can differ in cost markedly.

If you put your vin into realOEM.com you should be able to get a blow apart diagram that you need.

I can't help with pricing as every dealer or garage will be different. A lot of people have gone after market and replaced everything to get better handling.

philip27 · Post by **philip27** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:50 pm

Get the feeling this could be a costly repair I can only seem to see the standard shock absorbers on most sites.

Thanks for the info always thought it was standard across the range.

Scooba_Steve · Post by **Scooba_Steve** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 5:05 pm

£180 for a pair of Bilstein B4s for E89 - if you don't have active suspension - do you? Can't imagine it's more than a 2 hour job, why not get a jack and some tools and DIY?

philip27 · Post by **philip27** » Sat Jun 18, 2016 5:11 pm

Yep I have the active suspension just checked the photos I took earlier whilst I was doing the brakes. Going to call into Sytners on Monday and get a price will go from there.

philip27 · Post by **philip27** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 3:22 pm

Looking at £1600 for the dealer to sort it out ! Trying to find aftermarket options but everything so far is for the standard system.

R.E92 · Post by **R.E92** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 3:34 pm

£450 per damper. The adaptive ones seem to fail regularly on these cars.

You can go aftermaket but you need a little device to plugin to the adaptive module to prevent the car bringing up an error. Check the ECS tuning website for parts.

mr wilks · Post by **mr wilks** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:10 pm

philip27 wrote:Looking at £1600 for the dealer to sort it out ! Trying to find aftermarket options but everything so far is for the standard system.

Ooooooooshhhhhhh

that's a spudcruncher

Maniac · Post by **Maniac** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:11 pm

philip27 wrote:Looking at £1600 for the dealer to sort it out ! Trying to find aftermarket options but everything so far is for the standard system.

Is it AUC/Warranty?

I started up the warranty again on mine recently as its knocking on now and want the peace of mind, esp at £1600 for new shocks!

Scooba_Steve · Post by **Scooba_Steve** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:23 pm

That's crazy, though I bet the book time is about 3 hours... Change all round and disable for cheaper while having 3 good shocks to sell?

philip27 · Post by **philip27** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:35 pm

Maniac wrote:
philip27 wrote:Looking at £1600 for the dealer to sort it out ! Trying to find aftermarket options but everything so far is for the standard system.
Is it AUC/Warranty?

I started up the warranty again on mine recently as its knocking on now and want the peace of mind, esp at £1600 for new shocks!

Unfortunately not. Wise decision getting the warranty started back up. It's the price of the parts that's crazy.

Looking into various options at the moment. One of those things unfortunately just need to find the best way to get it sorted.

Baza · Post by **Baza** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:05 pm

Active suspension on a 59 plate was an extra at £930.00 so not difficult to understand BMW replacement cost

Baza · Post by **Baza** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:07 pm

sorry Adaptive suspension whoops

philip27 · Post by **philip27** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 10:21 am

Baza wrote:Active suspension on a 59 plate was an extra at £930.00 so not difficult to understand BMW replacement cost

I still think it's very steep especially that's it's just the fronts that need doing.

Struggling to find suitable aftermarket setups as not been able to find anything on how to by pass the system yet. Starting to think I will just pay it and move on.

Scooba_Steve · Post by **Scooba_Steve** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 11:07 am

What about buy and DIY fit? Be interesting to see how much the shocks are without the labour.

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