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A broken suspension coil spring is bad news all around: not only do you need to replace a crucial component, but you are also looking at repairing or replacing any parts that failed when your coil spring broke. It is critical to use only best quality parts and components when you upgrade or repair your ride’s suspension, and that’s what makes Bilstein B3 OE Coil Springs the first choice for motorsport and car cruising enthusiasts around the world. Let’s take a look at why you should replace your suspension coil springs with Bilstein B3s.

Why Chose Bilstein B3 OE Coil Springs?

When you are one of the original designers and manufacturers of one of the best suspension systems for over half a century, you tend to know how to build the best replacement parts. Original Equipment (OE) products are manufactured to the highest possible standard of quality and durability. Installing these coil springs means busting a spring on the track or cruising the back roads will be due to beyond-extreme circumstances. Here are the key features that make Bilstein B3 OE Coil Springs the best replacement coil springs for you.

Design

Bilstein has made, broken, redesigned and retested more coil springs than hundreds of motorists will ever use in a lifetime. This extensive lab and road testing process has allowed them to develop some of the best innovations in coil spring technology over the past 50 years. B3 Coil Springs make use of pigtail ends to add resilience to their attachment points, mini-bloc shapes to improve stability under pressure, and are engineered using a central force design to equally distribute pressure across the coil itself.

Materials

You can’t make good springs without the best quality materials, and Bilstein only makes the best. All B3 Coil Springs are built from chrome vanadium or chrome silicon steel, providing unparalleled break resistance even under extreme pressure or torsion.

Finishing Process

All B3 Coil Springs are “hot set” after they’ve been formed, tempering and hardening the finished metal to prevent height loss over time while under load. Bilstein springs aren’t just built for performance; they’re also built to last.

Next time you’ve got a busted spring, make the smart choice and install Bilstein B3 OE Coil Springs. They replace factory coil springs in most major manufacturer vehicles, they are tough and durable and they may be the last set of coil springs you ever have to buy.

Bilstein Suspension

Your car’s suspension matters almost as much as what tyres you mount or what type of wheels you install. Suspension controls your car’s handling, drive feel, responsiveness, and ride comfort. Anyone looking to get the best performance out of their car should be investing in a precision engineered suspension that suits both their budget and driving style. Discriminating gearheads know that Bilstein is the first and last name in performance suspension, and they have been for well over a century.

The History of Bilstein and German Engineered Suspension

Today, Bilstein is internationally known for engineering and building the most advanced performance car suspension for everything from sedans and SUVs to high performance race cars. As fate would have it, they didn’t actually get their start in precision vehicle suspension, but in the world of metal window fittings. Selling their excellent metal window fittings under the name AUBI (a clever adaptation of founder Augustus Bilstein’s name), they rapidly began to gain a a global reputation for both precision and excellence in metalworking.

Father to Son

Building on this success, Bilstein began to develop an array of technical marvels. Their patent catalogue began to grow, and their innovations laid a solid foundation for what was still a young company in 1919. It was in this year that Bilstein started their first strip iron rolling mill to meet the ever-increasing demand for their precisions metalwork and machining. It was around this time that Augustus Bilstein’s son Hans returned to Germany to assume control of company operations after completing his education in the United States.

First Forays Into Automotive Technology

Hans was the driving force behind the company’s new nickel and chromium plating processes, and it was he who began to transform the company into the powerhouse of automotive engineering it would become. Beginning in 1927, Hans Bilstein partnered with the Berlin-based lifting gear manufacturer Levator-Hebezeuge-Fabrik to manufacture various car accessories. Within a year, Bilstein was supplying the chrome-plated bumpers that would grace the front and rear end of the first generation of German mass-produced cars. The following year they would go on to manufacture of portable car jacks that could be kept in the car and used by the roadside in the event that a tire blew while out on the roadway. This would prove to be just the start for Bilstein however.

Mid-20th Century Innovations

1954 marks the year that Bilstein came into its own with the development of their innovative suspension system and vibration self-dampening shocks. The company poured its development capital, time, and resources into developing their technology and the production infrastructure necessary to mass produce it. Their first monotube gas pressure shock absorber system was installed in a Mercedes-Benz production car, an innovation still considered a landmark automotive engineering event that made cars safer and more comfortable to drive.

Bilstein Today

Production facilities have been upgraded and expanded and suspension systems continue to evolve and improve, but the heart of what makes Bilstein who they are hasn’t changed a bit. Car manufacturers and performance race car builders continue to clamor for Bilstein products and technological developments to improve their own designs.Even after they were acquired by ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG in 1988, Bilstein has continued to lead the way in suspension technology innovations.

Automotive performance engineering and racing teams like Mercedes-Benz AMG continue to use Bilstein suspension kits exclusively, and many endurance and performance racing teams who compete at Nurburgring each year also rely on Bilstein to continually improve both their cars’ safety and performance levels. It is the racing world and high performance car companies that continue to inspire engineers at Bilstein to push the envelope further. They continue to keep those racing teams and manufacturers constantly expanding their understanding of the possible as they develop and manufacture record-setting technology and manufacture custom suspension systems for every possible implementation.

Why Drivers and Engineers Choose Bilstein

The rich history and traditions of Bilstein have led to new and improved car suspension and an ever-expanding idea of what can be accomplished with precision design and uncompromising manufacturing standards. No matter what they have built since 1873, they have carried on their tradition of excellence in design and manufacturing. The podium finishes riding on Bilstein suspension continues to grow each year, and racing teams the world over continue to accept nothing less than Bilstein’s most exceptional shock absorbers. If you are considering a performance upgrade for your car, Bilstein should be your first stop. Are you ready to upgrade your car and experience the Bilstein difference on every twist and turn you make on the highway or around town? Check out our full selection of Bilstein products. We guarantee you will not be disappointed.