Hello there, I installed the Madness Motorworks reinforcement plates in my MINI R50. I would definitely recommend to, as commented previously, undo the lower stock sway bar from the struts. This allows you to slide the plates in place without too much trouble gives you more room. One more recommendation would be to not tighten the nuts to 25ft/lbs as it caused one of the strut mounting bolts to brake off. It could very well be a simple manufacturing fluke on my set of strut though. Just tighten by hand, without cranking too hard on them. I would recommend using some medium strength thread locker, as there are not very many threads available, due to the added thickness of the plates.
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