Comedy Stealership pricing!

[polov8]

I know what you mean, but the rubber does seem to be in perfect condition, and they are certainly harder than the squishy ones on the car now! I wonder when BMW last had a production run of the stock bushes?

[TopCat]

I must be getting old or something, but I'm done with poly bushed, slammed, coilovered, stretch-tyred, rose-jointed daily drivers. The point of this car is I can bear to drive it with a head ache or 200 miles straight, without feeling like I've just had kidney surgury! To that end I want it tight like a new car, but with compliance when it hits pot holes, of which there are many here! .

Amen to this!

This is why I got rid of the KW coilover set up on Herman and went back to std (Alpina) stuff

for E21 parts how about USING GSF or these guys:
http://www.mister-auto.co.uk/en/bmw-3-e ... p_v19.html
- not tried these myself

but GSF sold me a complete E39 M5 levelling headlamp assy - which I took out to South Africa for friend saving the guy £800 !!

[nas80]

I love buying from mister hyphenated auto. good service and a nice range of parts too, all branded stuff.

I'm getting sick of having a harsh ride too, they have some roads in Leeds that when you hit a pothole its like you have driven over an IED, I have had to get sensible spring rates (300 / 250) and with the coilovers on 50% damper its not too bad. The best riding e21 I have ever driven was raseeda green's m52b28, he has -40 spax springs and bilstien b6's, such a lovely relaxing smooth compliant ride and it handled pretty well too, even if it did roll in bends a little more then I would like.

I was looking at uprated mounts but in the end I knocked out the rubber and then refilled my original rear beam mounts with some 80shoreA polyurethane, sorted my tramping rear axle, ride and vibration is no harsher either.

[Jeroen]

Harsh suspensions are horror on the roads and don't add anything, just narrow margins. Better reduce roll with a smart sway bar setup and leave some suspension travel indeed.

[sleepy]

What about these? £21.26 each

http://www.strongflex.eu/en/bmw-e21-75- ... sport.html

Ben

Sorry to dig up an old thread but this info has helped me out massively! I'm just getting the sills done on my car, I needed new rear subframe mounting bushes and BMW are now up to £209 each for this item and it's special order from Germany. I have been looking elsewhere with no luck...should have consulted the forum first, would have saved a day of searching online!

Cheers Ben

[Jeroen]

Yup we got us these as well as BMW's examples are more expensive than pure gold examples. Recently did a price check, don't bother ordering a water pump or viscous coupling from them either, those prices went times three as well

[sleepy]

Real shame for guys like us trying to keep BMW's old timers going. Last time I ordered something special order from Germany it took over 6 months to get here (o ring for dizzy). BMW uk advised they would give me a good will gesture once the car is on the road after complaining about the timescale, thinking it will be a BMW air freshener or something lol