Shock recommendation?

since you're not looking for anything performance, a set of gabriel or monroe's would probably be fine. sachs makes some decent OE style replacements too, and they aren't very expensive.

kyb's have fallen out of favor in that the quality has gone down, and they ride so rough.

the problem is that basically you have stock shocks that are all like 30 bucks a pop or good shocks that start at like 125 each and go up from there.

the QA1 stocker star non-adjustables are decent pieces for the price, as are the Bilstein RCD's if you want something a little better than what rock auto supplies.