BMW E46 RACP DIFFERENCES 1998 - 2006

Not many people know there were so many generations of the BMW E46 RACP.
After all, they look identical from underneath.
It's only because we have such vast knowledge of dissecting BMW E46's and their RACP's over the past 11 years that we can pass our experience on to the wider community.

This video concentrates on the different INTERNAL REAR alterations BMW made to the E46 RACP and also shows an example of 'early years cracking' which was much different to what the world commonly see in the E46 M3 for example.

Back in 2013 we were the first to cut open a brand new BMW RACP and retrieve the Plastic Block which they bonded into the left rear corner.
This really did help the left rear corner, but unfortunately didn't solve the issue as the energy moves to other parts of the panel i.e. right rear corner.

Car in question on the video (cracked) is a BMW E46 318i Automatic LPG Touring with 145k.

At the end of the day, all BMW E46's are likely to suffer some form of RACP issue (some worse than others) due to the design flaw of not connecting the Internal Threaded Receivers to a structural part of the vehicle like the Chassis Legs.

Therefore, the majority of BMW E46's will need some form of help/repair/assistance to survive longer than a manufacturer's infamous 10 year ideology.

Luckily, there are many specialists now offering various different takes on the repair so the world is well catered for BMW E46 RACP Repair & Reinforcement Processes.

We're in our 10th year of BMW E46 RACP Reinforcement Plate Kit sales and on our V3 kit which you can read more about (and purchase if required) on our website here:

http://www.redish-motorsport.com/RedishMotorsportE46RearSubframeReinforcementPlateKit.html

Our Redish V3 plate kit (another world first on it's plate design) comes with Underside Plates to repair & reinforce the cracked areas.
As well as Internal Plates to address the flawed design by connecting the RACP to the Chassis Legs and acting as a Load-Relief system.

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