Here we are John. This is the old back box bracket and rubbers - they're the original factory fitted items.
Here's the same layout as my first two pics in 36. Left to right: the same red rubber / one of the factory black rubbers / the same cheapo fleabay rubber.
The factory rubber in the centre above is the same design as the new WCS100212 I bought from Rimmers in December. It even has the two indentations made by the injection mould.
These are the measurements:
Original factory black rubber from 2001/2002
Length - 69.16mm / Depth - 30.03mm / Width - 47.28mm
New 2019 black rubber WCS100212 from Rimmers
Length - 67.01mm / Depth - 30.19mm / Width - 49.26mm
The two old factory rubbers are stamped 17 and 20. The new pair are stamped 15 and 16.
The exhaust on my car has never been changed before so there's no doubt about it - the factory rubbers are just as big & chunky as the new WCS100212s from Rimmers (allowing for stretching etc). Mine's a V6 saloon though - so maybe other variants had different factory rubbers.
NB. Above 3 pics have all been taken tonight - the 2 pics below are from post 36 and were taken on 22/12/19 (I've repeated them here just to save shuffling back a page
).
Damn! Forgot to put the 12" rule in the new pics.
