Front Lower rear Wishbone bushes 60mm or 66mm ??

[t123vor]

Hi all
Just seeing if any PHers can help me, have posted on some e46 forums - 09/2001 facelift 330d with sport package

My front lower wishbone rear bushes have deteriorated

I have searched most forums but getting conflicting answers

According to the searches my bushes should have changed to 66mm (post February 2001) but I have had the car up on stands and I measured them as 60mm. RealOEM says 66mm too.

--Just to check the 60/66mm is definitely the diameter of just the bush and doesn't include the width of the 'lollipop' too?---

Is any of the bush inside the lollipop housing, ie when measuring you can't see some of the bush as it is under the lip of the lollipop? and that could be where the 6mm is?

OK so I should just buy 60mm bushes (I'm going for powerflex ones) and fit them? Or as the 66mm were an improvement, source the lollipops too and fit them with 66mm bushes, I read spacers may be required if this mod is performed- anyone confirm this with sizes etc?

Any help or pointers please guys

Thanks
Trevor

[8Tech]

The car will have 66mm bushes unless they have already been replaced with the wrong ones.

The size is measured as the outside diameter of the steel tube the bush is in, or consequently the bore of the alloy housing.

Just purchase new Powerflex ones pre-fitted in 66mm housings and then its irrelevant what size you have fitted anyway.

8Tech.

[t123vor]

Thanks buddy

[milburn7191]

Seen alot of conversation on this topic but no one has ever said whether the two are interchangeable.

If the following three are the same then they should be:
fitting to the car is the same
the ID of the inner bush
the relative position of car fitment to bush centreline