What dampers for my A4?

[Taylor2446]

Hi guys,

I recently got some H&R springs fitted to my B5 A4. I'm now thinking I probably should have done the dampers along with it as they were 40mm drop springs and the current dampers have probably never been changed in the car's life.

I'm trying to find some reasonably priced dampers, but most of the websites I've looked at aren't 100% clear on whether they'll fit or not as they say things like "fits all excl. quattro" or "fits all excluding vehicles with air con". How does having air con or not make any difference to whether the dampers are suitable for my car? Is it due to weight?

The only ones I've found that my car fits all the criteria for are some Bilstein B8's but I don't really want to spend 500 odd quid as it's not really necessary as it's not a track day car or anything like that.

So if any of you could recommend some dampers that will be fine for my car or just clarify on whether or not I can fit some that don't fit all the criteria it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

ETA the car is an A4 1.8T Quattro Sport

[SuperchargedVR6]

Taylor2446 said:

The only ones I've found that my car fits all the criteria for are some Bilstein B8's but I don't really want to spend 500 odd quid as it's not really necessary as it's not a track day car or anything like that.

Track day cars are all about spring rates to hold the car up round the corners, but you've chosen to fit track springs to a road car, so now you need better quality dampers to control the rebound oscillations.....and you won't get better than B8/B12s for the money.

[silentbrown]

SuperchargedVR6 said:

... you've chosen to fit track springs to a road car

Are they really track springs, though? H&R seem to use the word "stance" an awful lot. B8's would be great, but £500 shocks on a £2000 car could be unnecessary.

[glasgowrob]

Just fitted a b12 sport line kit to my mondeo very happy with the results

[Taylor2446]

silentbrown said:

SuperchargedVR6 said:

... you've chosen to fit track springs to a road car

Are they really track springs, though? H&R seem to use the word "stance" an awful lot. B8's would be great, but £500 shocks on a £2000 car could be unnecessary.

I wouldn't really call them track springs. They were either H&R sport or H&R super sport springs, I can't remember which. They are supposed to fine fitted with standard dampers, plus I think the Quattro Sport is supposed to have sport suspension as standard anyway.

But I just wanted to upgrade to some slightly better dampers as they could do with a refresh, don't really want to go £500 better though. Maybe just best to stick with the current ones or just get some fresh Audi ones.