Explain the 300 dollar shock to me, What the... Options

[emerygt350]

An insert for 275? What and why? Is it just rarity? Some strange one off design that no other car uses?

[wonkipop]

@chmillman


interesting. i see what you are saying

its also engraved with bilstein as well.

here is a thought.
looking very closely at parts catalogue i notice something else.
there is no listing for the 914-6 as applicable car in listings to right.
this could be a typo omission - would not be first time.

and all they are really listing is the boge components.
but bilsteins and konis were definitely options, right through production.
for 4s and 6s.

something else to bear in mind is that whilst changing the shocks as normal maintenance involves simply buying the insert whether boge or bilstien (or i am guessing koni) i dont think thats how it would have been done on the production line. i could be wrong but i think they would have been ready to go so to speak as a complete component.
the production line workers i think were unlikely to have been inserting the shock into the strut.

i reckon the strut came complete from boge or alternatively bilstein. or koni? already fully assembled.

i am going to guess that my strut will be engraved with 914 341 081 or 082.
i won't go so far as to say it has 05 on the end ofr it like the parts manual says.
those last two digits are the superceding part number. and 05 could be last itteration which is not necessarily what went on in 73 or 74. could be. but not necessarily.
usually what happens in these catalogues is the final itteration that fits all the cars as a spare part is listed.
but i will bet the parts number faces the wheel like yours and makes it pretty hard for me to see at the moment.

out of that i think that the 081/082 becoming 091/092 is to identify the struct with bilstein insert as a production line item.

and i wonder if there is a further number for the koni equipped strut.

reason i say this is i know a B6 goes straight into a strut that i know was originally equipped with a boge insert. they were the originals i pulled out of the car in 2019.
so i know the insert goes into that strut. either of the inserts.

something like that must be the explanation.
there is certainly a few missing listings of parts there in that section of the catalogue.

i have found similar missing listings for some L jet parts.
but some of those i found scattered in other sections of the catalogue far away from the EFI components groupings.

its possible these alternative shocks are elsewhere in the catalogue in a not so obvious place - because they were options?

EDIT
i am guessing the top number 1 0221 32 090 0/091 0 is a bilstein part number?