Its been several months now and not a single noise out of these links. Still holding strongly and vehicle control is improved with tight sway links. OEM quality out of Lemforder

This work great, fit my E46 perfectly.

Parts fitted nice and easy and are high quality. You will need a very narrow 18mm spanner to hold the link bolt as you torque it up even though the instructions that lemforder include say to use a torx head.

Ordered a set of these swaybar from Lemforder. They looked really nice and sturdy. I prefer the silverish color of this set over the original stock ones' yellowish color. But it doesn't really matter though after you put them on your car. The rubber boot was redesigned and hopefully will impove over the notorious damage-prone stock design. One of the trade-off though, is that the throat where you can use a open-end wrench to hold spindle to keep it from spinning when you are tightening the nut, now comes in a different size than the original stock size. The throat now needs a 18mm thin wrench to hold it. I got mine from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000C14O3Q/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_SC_dp_1 Other than the hard to find thin wrench, everything is fine and hopefully it will last long on my E46.