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Originally Posted by Bee Pee
Looking at Nezil's photos, my only additional tip would be sleeve/wrap the alloy brace in insulating tape, where its closest to the 12V +ve terminal to ensure no chance of a short.
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I'll try and get another photo of this today. That's good advice
if you don't go with the correct strut tower rubber covers. The correct part has a big bit of rubber going around the aluminium section at that point, so are insulated if you fit these.
One thing I noticed is that the M2C / M3 / M4 aluminium part does have what looks like a 3D printed black plastic part just behind the 12v terminal. You can see it in my photos. This sort of creates a slightly more radiused rather than short edge where all of the other power wires are coming up from the distribution box. I think this is quite important, and without this, I'd put a lot of insulating tape. RealOEM doesn't list this separately, and I've seen some retrofit photos with it, and some without. When I sourced my aluminium section (used), I made sure it had this before I ordered it.
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