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And....in the category of "issues with old car, low miles" (2012) the bump stops --rubber part at top of shock--on my original front shocks turned to powder. Shocks are fine and no reason to switch them (as far as I can tell). Any way to tell if these coil-over shocks are supplex or spax at a glance? And do you know if bump stop dampers are general and work on all shocks? Or do I have to hunt down manufacture? suggestions?

Low miles maybe but nearly ten years old! Probably a little premature but same findings would be telling me to replace shocks, with an upgrade maybe to superior adjustable ones.

A photo of the two types, Spax on the left and two Suplex. The Suplex should have "M3W S160001" on the bottom and "Suplex" on the springs. The bump stop failure is a problem with the Suplex certainly, the ones in the photo have the same problem.

Okay, my bump stops are yellow. So they must be Supplex. I will look for markings. This helps! Now...if I want to kick this pricey mod down the street, is it work replacing just the stops?

I would certainly check the markings more than just the colour of the bump stops to positively identify what you have. I have no information about replacing the bump stops, other than the contact details for Suplex in the "Parts Sources" section of the Alternative Parts List, available at the top of this forum in the Owners Resource Section. Not sure how up to date that is but I will be interested in your findings about some new ones. My Suplex shocks are sat on the shelf, not the car, so not as urgent. They are worth sorting out if they are Suplex as they are much better than the later standard Spax.

Dan and Peter at Suspension Supplies Ltd (www.suspensionsupplies.co.uk) are the people to talk to - they did the dev work on the original suspension using Suplex units - it also turns out that some of the work also involved Black Arts Designs (www.blackartdesigns.com)....why do we know this - we had a broken rod in one of our units - in theory it should have been rebuildable but it turned out that the units on our car were part of a batch of non-rebuildable prototypes made by BAD - luckily BAD had a one-off spare lying in their attic....SSL put us in touch with BAD to make it all happen...great service by all involved.....Incidently our bump stops still seem OK so sunlight or higher ambient temp may be a problem

Correction, Ian, mine are SPAX which is marked clearly. I will try to improvise a bump stop or shop for a shock repair kit to keep these going until they start leaking.

Ian, that Suspension Supplies looks the business. I will ask them for advice when I swap out the shocks

I don't think Suspension Supplies do a M3W shock absorber kit now, they did once through MMC but there were some issues with it. The original spec Suplex shocks are no longer available. Your main choices are Spax adjustable, ATR and Ohlin in increasing price and possibly performance. There are one or two other providers but these are the main recognised suppliers for M3W's at the moment.

Indeed, SSL have nothing to offer just now for the M3W - ours has the original Suplex units from 2011/12 hence response when it seemed Craig had similarly old units. In talking to SSL back in July, it appears they may be working on something for the M3W....we shall see...