Re: E30 M3 non aluminium arms on E36

[jkerouac <jkerouac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re:   E30 M3 non aluminium arms on E36:

    Go ahead and use and E30 or E36 arm you want.  They are 
geometrically the same, and the casting is likely identical, just holes 
and ball joint attaching method vary.  Having figured this out, I'll 
never buy another overpriced //M3 arm for my //M3.  I don't track the 
car, and if I do manage to kill the ball joint in street driving, I've 
still paid less than half the cost of what an //M arm would be.
    Not sure where you are getting your price quotes, I recall 
something ~$89. (I think) from Bimmerworld for a regular E36 style arm 
last time I needed one.  On the regular E36 arm the outer ball joint can 
be replaced.  No sense really in doing that because if the outer is 
gone, the inner is just as worn, and the inner can not be replaced in 
the same way.
Hope this helps,

'jk
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