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Originally Posted by OnTouring
I referred to this thread when I did mine.
If I recall (somebody correct me here) Corteco is OEM for the original seals.
Whether the current Corteco seals are significantly superior I could not verify, and for the sake of confidence in the updated design, I went with the Elring set. Gold outer, red inners, I did not think twice.
The factory inners were hard as bricks on half of mine, and the others were close to it. |
This was the newest thread I could find on the topic of which valve stem seals to go with on my '06 4.8is. I see that most manufacturers are now making these with red inners/black outer seals. However, I did find this outlier selling out of Germany. These are the only gold outer/red inner option I could find online:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F192510624256
Would anyone recommend them over these from FCP Euro?
https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/bmw...it-11340029751
I did search on around on the forum, and other forums...but most of the guidance is around 5yrs old and I hoped someone may have been grappling with this decision more recently and can share some advise of which vss to go with? Thanks!