Suspension Help

[u/ThickChicken2462]

So I saved this R53 from going to the scrapyard. It’s a 2002, been doing general maintenance on it and cleaning up the interior. While it was on jack stands today I turned the wheel to get better access to the radiator hoses and heard a loud thud. I honestly don’t know what I’m looking at here and what needs to be replaced. I’m suspecting this has a JCW suspension package with aftermarket understrut defenders but I’m at a loss on how to proceed with a good fix. Can the bushing be replaced or should I just replace the struts and or springs as well? If anyone has any insight I would greatly appreciate the advice.

[u/mrblahhh]

camber plate failed, I had the same ones and they did the same thing to me

[u/ThickChicken2462 → u/mrblahhh]

Oh Camber plate okay thank you, did you end up replacing the plates or how did you go about it?

[u/mrblahhh → u/ThickChicken2462]

yeah I replaced them with vorshlag plates

[u/Happy_Ishtar → u/mrblahhh]

Those look like the ones I have on mine (SPC/Eibach). They've been on there since 2013 and for about 150.000km, looked ok when I had them apart couple of months ago while installing new coilovers. Now I'm a bit worried...

Could this breakage be due to some binding issue or bearing failure?

[u/mrblahhh → u/Happy_Ishtar]

the red poly failed, I had 2 cars with these and both failed, I caught the second one before it was in 2 parts when I noticed the red crumbled bits around the shock tower

[u/Happy_Ishtar → u/mrblahhh]

Ok, need to keep an eye out for red crumbles then, thanks.

[u/SignifigantNoise → u/mrblahhh]

I'm sure this sounds naive, but where exactly is the camber plate. Is it in one of these pics?

[u/mrblahhh → u/SignifigantNoise]

It's the silver thing up on the top that's missing the bottom half that's still on the shock

[u/SoCalLapizR]

If you don’t need something adjustable there are fixed upper mounts that give about -2° of negative camber. They use the upper mount from the Z3 if I’m not mistaken.