23.05.2024
The booming camping market is opening up lucrative additional business for garages - especially as the standard chassis quickly reaches its limits with fully loaded motorhomes and camping buses. Many campers complain about a lack of travel comfort, poor stability in bends or annoying noises on long vacation trips. With the BIILSTEIN B6 Camper, BILSTEIN has developed special shock absorbers that noticeably improve the ride comfort and safety of motorhomes and campervans. This upgrade is now also available for motorhomes based on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter: BILSTEIN, the shock absorber expert, is expanding its camper range to include specially tuned dampers for the Sprinter 906, 907 and 910 series, thus covering another popular base vehicle for semi-integrated vehicles and camper vans.
Damping force plus for safety and comfort
The BILSTEIN B6 Camper high-performance shock absorber significantly improves the handling of van chassis originally designed for different loads. To this end, the damping properties were extensively adapted to the parameters of motorhomes in road tests at the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg site. These are usually loaded up to the payload limit, have a higher center of gravity and different overhangs or wheelbases. With the help of special dampers, optimum traction results in increased safety in crosswinds and bends as well as a more intense driving experience thanks to high traction and precise handling. At the same time, campers can look forward to a more comfortable driving experience after a shock absorber upgrade in the workshop: the reduction in driving noise thanks to better damping contributes to this, as does the optimized rolling behaviour on cobblestones and at level crossings.
Additional business with the BILSTEIN B6 Camper
The new product line launched on the market in 2022 was previously available for motorhomes based on the Fiat Ducato (from model year 2006) and identical vehicles from Citroën, Peugeot and Opel. With the extension of the range for newer Sprinters from model series 906 up to 910 with front-wheel drive, BILSTEIN offers garages the opportunity for even more additional business. The camper shock absorbers from BILSTEIN can be fitted easily and without registration by vehicle professionals. The installation effort is the same as for conventional shock absorbers. BILSTEIN, the shock absorber expert, supports companies that want to equip themselves for the camper customer with special training courses.