A long time coming

Last September I ordered a new set of shocks for Lily. After much reading and discussion I settled on trying the Bilstein komfort shocks on standard springs. Finally after only 7 months they arrived and Nigel in Otto let me know they were available. Picked them up on Saturday morning and as soon as I got a chance I set to putting them in. With minimal head scratching and a quick phone to someone "in the know" (Cheers Tom) I managed to get the rears in and do a quick shake down over the weekend between some other jobs. Considering how light the 02 is in the back they didn't make a huge difference but she's certainly more planted to the road and I'm looking forward to getting the fronts done. The old rear shocks were completely shot as Tom and John had suspected and didn't recoil at all when I compressed them by hand. Essentially they were only functioning as check links to stop the training arms deflecting too far and the car was riding on it's springs.
Old vs. New

Shocks fitted.