Top mount replacement

[President Merkin]

I have to do these soon. On my car, there's two ways of doing it. I can either compress the springs in situ & undo the mounts or take the strut out altogether. If I do the latter, I have to remove the strut from the hub knuckle & remove the droplinks. The springs don't require much compressing on the car - Mini Cooper S but the question is will I need an alignment post job? Logically, I don't see the need if I'm not disturbing the track rods & the top mounts themselves are not adjustable but I have seen a couple of guides suggest it's required.

Slightly irritating if so as I had an alignment in January!

[President Merkin]

OK so I just looked up the specs for the car. There's no camber or caster adjustment on the front wheels, so providing I don't disturb the toe & the mounts aren't excessively worn, I think I should be ok, especially as I'm running half worn tyres n the front which I may just roll with until they need replacing. Cheers everyone.

[President Merkin]

Got round to this today; Easy enough in the end but I discovered both droplinks are split & my offside inner cv boot is leaking. It passed an MOT like this two weeks ago, which is a bit disconcerting. Parts ordered, back under it tomorrow.