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Old Feb 2, 2013 | 10:03 PM
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Upper Bearing in IE Fixed Camber Plates?

Does anyone know if there is a way to buy only the upper bearing in the IE fixed camber plates? Or an even better bearing than what is on the IE plates?

I have some pretty beefy under tower plates that I'm using with stock-style strut mounts that are on their way out. I would like to drill holes in my current plates to fit a robust bearing, similar to the one in the IE fixed camber plates, rather replace with another stock-style strut mount.

Any help or guidance is much appreciated.

My current strut mounts are Raybestos Professional grade and have lasted about 2.5 years and 25k miles. I'm hoping to put something in that will last at least twice as long. I'm not confident OEM ones would.
 
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Old Feb 3, 2013 | 05:01 AM
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I believe the bearing that I.E. uses is from a BMW Z series. You could check to see if they are availabe seperately.
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Old Feb 3, 2013 | 05:11 AM
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I have the IE adjustables and IE replaced both mine free of charge when one failed recently.
 
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Old Feb 3, 2013 | 10:49 AM
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I have the IE adjustables and IE replaced both mine free of charge when one failed recently.
How long had you had them on? Their site says it's officially just a 6-month warranty.
 
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Old Feb 3, 2013 | 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by THE ITCH
I believe the bearing that I.E. uses is from a BMW Z series. You could check to see if they are availabe seperately.
Steve
Looking at pictures of the some the Z series mounts, it does look very similar. I'll contact them to see if they'll tell me which specific one their using.
 
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