Shock Upgrade - What should I use?

[pele21]

Hi...I'm looking at upgrading the front and rear shocks on the 2003 2wd MS. One seems to be going out and the body roll has increased since I started driving my wife's MS.

Are any of the following Shocks worth installing for normal driving to and from work...not any type of hard core off roading...(maybe into a field on the 4th of July...hahaha is the max extent she will do.

I live in the UK so I started looking at Autozone first since they ship to APO

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[2002sport]

I'm running the Tokico Trekmasters in the front and OME in the rear of my 2002 sport and I have no complaints. I was running the Tokico's in the rear also but I did the OME lift so I switched them out.

[pele21]

Are the Bilsteins 4600 series too stiff for average day to day use? Its only a 2WD. If so, what about the procomp ES3000?

I'm looking for a nice shock that is going to perform well but not something so stiff that she feels like she is in a go-cart.

[monty98]

I can second the tokico trekmasters, I have them all the way around, very nice twin tube low pressure shock, I don't really like the monotube high gas pressure ones since they are just way too stiff.

Otherwise before that I had the monroe shocks form napa, those were really nice, good valving, allowed for good compression, but I was warranting out the darn things every 6 months because they were well engineered, but poorly produced and/or use of low quality parts.

KYB gas-adjust are usually the oem spec shocks, I had those for a short while, but they were soooo stiff that I when I took them off they wouldn't even compress anymore! -> no wonder my rear was bouncing around like a go cart!

I also had the Gabriel shocks sold by Autozone on the rear, those were crap too, just like the KYB gas-adjust.

Bilsteins I believe are monotube high pressure gas design. Procomps I've heard good things here and there, but that's about it.

[pele21]

Will the tokico trekmaster for the 2002 still fit the 2003. I was looking at the site and they show a set for the 2002 model but not for a 2003.

thoughts? and thank you for the response.