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    Are these really M-E36 Control arms?

    so im done with my 5 lug swap and my wheels are slighty rearward in the wheel opening, after reading up on some stuff i wondered if maybe the guy i bought my CA's from sold me the wrong stuff. Apparantly the M arms are supposed to have a outer balljoint thats centered in the arm, and the ones that are offset back are for regular e30s and e36's (and 1995 M3 too) i snapped a photo of my arm, it looks like this is offset back.
    can somebody look at their arms and tell me if mine are correct? i dont see a part number on the arm to go by, otherwise of course i would just do it that way
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    #2
    Looks like you got 96+ CA's. If you want those to work you need to go back to centered CAB's and no the offset ones.

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      #3
      Yes that would be true if i was driving an E36 M3 from 1995, but i have an e30.

      I guess the way it worked was,
      -the e30 M3 used offset CABs and normal arms
      -the first E36 M3 (1995) used the same setup
      -1996 and up M3 they changed to a centered bushing with the offset built into the arms

      so for a 5 lug swap you need both the offset arms and offset bushings to bring the wheel foward and correct caster. my wheels are just a tad rearward so i was wondering if maybe my arms were incorrect

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        #4
        That doesnt make sense. If they build the offset into the arms, and then you put the offset bushings on wouldnt you be seeing mega caster? By what your describing you have to little caster. It looks like the bushings are installed correctly providing castor in the proper direction, so I would think the arms are the problem.

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