Msport Springs

[Rockhopper]

Does anyone have the BMW part number for Msport front springs for an October 2004 E85 3.0i automatic?

Real OEM gives no information about the springs which is odd (unless I'm using it wrong) and LLLparts don't show anything either.

There seems to be a huge amount of confusion about the actual length of the original ones. For example one seller says their spring is the equivalent of Suplex 06248 and 06249 but according to AutoDOC the 06249 is 276mm long whilst the 06248 is 270mm long... The seller doesn't actually say how long their spring is. Suplex say the 06248 is for manual cars and 06249 for automatics.
Maybe 6mm doesn't matter in reality..

 

[RMB]

Does this help…
I found this from suplex somehow a few weeks ago.

 

[Rockhopper]

Ta, yes I've got that. The problem I'm having is that it seems that you can only get Suplex springs from Germany at the moment and they are taking forever to ship. I was hoping to find some other make on next day delivery but its proving to be very difficult! Many on-line part sellers don't seem to appreciate that early 3.0i's came with Msport as standard.