Evening Everyone,
After pulling off all the new parts I bought from the now-written-off Mini Auto I'm in the process of ascertaining what I have and what I might need for the new project. Today I was building up a new front subframe and as I started to put the bottom arms back in I noticed 2 x 21A1881 and not 1 x 21A1879 & 1 x 21A1881! This fact does also mean that the previous car had potentially the wrong arm fitted on one side as, when they were new, I used the part number on the box to identify R/H and L/H and fitted them to that subframe based on said fact as I remember laying everything out on each side in the boxes they came in - top, bottom, etc.
Question is does this matter? My head says yes of course it does otherwise the instructions would just say 'fit it the opposite way around'! However the frustration in me - and now being potentially £45 out of pocket - says I hope not! Given they are used, albeit only very slightly, and nearly 12 months old I won't be able to send one of them back now.
Thoughts? Deal with the fact I should have noticed first time around and get the right parts?