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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?

polov8 wrote: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 !!

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.

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.

Duracel79 wrote: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

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

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