Rear trailer arm bushes

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Vic
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Rear trailer arm bushes

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Hey guys,

Was assembling the rear suspension over the weekend, and got stuck when installing the 4 trailer arm bushes.. I bought them from the local Bmw dealer, so should fit fine however the bushes are wider in diameter on one side than the other; does anyone know whether they're designed to fit in a specific position ie wider on the inner or outer side of the bore.

Many thanks

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Re: Rear trailer arm bushes

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On my car it was originally that the wider part of the rubber bushes was at the outsides of the trailer arms.

So this is also how i replaced them

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Re: Rear trailer arm bushes

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Perhaps you got the eccentric ones? Nice if you know exaclty what you're correcting but otherwise I'd get a set of concentric examples.
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