Suspension - spring advice

Eddie-S

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British Zeds
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Z3 - 3.0i
I found one of my front springs broken yesterday. Z3 3.0 sport and I understand replacements are no longer available for sport springs. After digging around on here and bimmer forums. I found the overall length for the stock sport spring is 330mm but can't find a reliable spring rate or suggested stock alternative. So will any 330 mm spring do such as this https://www.bestpartstore.co.uk/7431489-eibach-coil-spring or can anyone recommend anything as close as possible? Or will stock non sport springs be the way to go?
 

Zephyr

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Unless you manage to find a used set, throw in the stock springs and call it a day.
I also had the sport suspension and somewhere in this forum I have posted the part numbers and cross referred to other brands that unfortunately are now obsolete (end of production).
My BMW Customer Care inquiry lead me to a thick brick wall and their response was thank you for being foolish enough to believe that we actually care about you or anyone else who has an older vehicle, so I gave up.
For all that matters replacing a set of worn springs with a new one even the later ones being non-sport will improve handling, so no major difference.
cheers.
 
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