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Ahhh, I have always called those strut top bearings. Yes, they are NLA from BMW and no one makes replacements. Welcome to the NK world, there are a lot of parts that you will have to get creative to source. Some options are to convert to a later NK strut which has available top bearings, find someone with available spares (They pop up on German EBay occasionally), or do what I did and send your struts to Ground Control for conversion -

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I'll keep an eye out for these and if I find some I'll let you know.

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Carl Nelson at LaJolla Independent BMW will take new 2002 bearing supports and press in larger bearings that fit the larger strut shaft.

If you have the longer strut tubes for struts that RealOEM show as NLA, he will sell you new Bilts which, with a custom spacer (which in my case were about the last 1 inch of an old original strut) placed in tube before the Bilts, work just great.

The retro of the 2002 strut bearing mounts were cost of mounts plus $40 for new bearings inserted.

Cheers!

Savvy

'65 BMW 1600 4dr-not quite road worthy, but closer

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No problem...

Carl Nelson at LaJolla Independent BMW will take new 2002 bearing supports and press in larger bearings that fit the larger strut shaft.

If you have the longer strut tubes for struts that RealOEM show as NLA, he will sell you new Bilts which, with a custom spacer (which in my case were about the last 1 inch of an old original strut) placed in tube before the Bilts, work just great.

The retro of the 2002 strut bearing mounts were cost of mounts plus $40 for new bearings inserted.

Cheers!

Savvy

'65 BMW 1600 4dr-not quite road worthy, but closer

'34 Ford Fordor Deluxe Sedan-currently being rehabbed

'03 Acura TL

'92 Toyota Land Cruiser

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