Which struts are Recommended?
we have several Gen 1s and even new strut mounts are not lasting but 6 months. ( unsure of brand).

I am about to put B6s on and want to put on good strut mounts. I’ve looked at the fixed mounts but they all add camber and I don’t want to do that right now.

 

Lemfoerder is the same as Genuine MINI
and do better than most other brands.

 

As Cristo says, Lemfoerder is as good as you can get for an OEM replacement part.

You might reconsider the fixed mounts though. . .
If your concern is that they will unacceptably de-camber the car, resulting in poor tire wear, that does not seem to be the case for literally thousands of installs. Here's why you will benefit:

• With the Ireland Engineering (IE) fixed camber plates you get an excellent strut reinforcement (for when someone hits a speed bump hard that they didn't see at night, for example ).
• You also get a stronger-than-stock, rubber-mounted top bearing from a BMW Z4 that IE includes on their fixed mounts.

My own car (though certainly not stock) is a daily-driver example that I have owned since new. With 95%+ street driving, the tire wear pattern is very even with the IE fixed plates, and better than with the stock mounts. They also reduce the native understeer on the Mini.
(Note, that you will will need an alignment (to correct "toe") after installing the IE plates.
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