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E46 front arms, M sport or standard

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So it turns out there are two E46 arms.... M sport and standard.

I think the differences are that the M sport arms use better quality ball joints? Im so over the internet!

Any one share any light on this?

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I would have thought they would be slightly different lengths to change the front wheel castor.

Pretty sure thats the case with the E36 M3 vs non M ones for instance...

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Are you trying to get more lock or just more track width? Hope you've got something to dial that camber back in

Quality of ball joints depends on the part manufacturer. M sport has the same gear afaik

M3 and M sport are 2 different things

Edited by Thorburn

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Are you trying to get more lock or just more track width? Hope you've got something to dial that camber back in

Quality of ball joints depends on the part manufacturer. M sport has the same gear afaik

M3 and M sport are 2 different things

Am wanting more track width and will be running adjustable camber top mounts.

Looking at realoem.com, some of the E46 have different part numbers between the "For vehicles with

M Sports package II" and what I suppose is the usual E46 arm.

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There were 2 LCA bushes sizes when I tried to replaced them with Nolathane. Turns out my car with the M-sport suspension uses a bigger bushes of the 2 sizes in the catalogue.

I guess with the M-sport arm, it's stiffer and helps holding the suspension geometry stable during hard corning?

Edited by SpikeyLemon

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