E92 325i M Sport

[stevie99s]

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[Muppet32]

Steering wheel shimmy could be lumps of paint/powder coat on the mating surface of the wheels when you had them refurbed. This wouldn't show up on a wheel balancing machine.

Scrape the mating surfaces and see if it improves things

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Muppet32 said:

Steering wheel shimmy could be lumps of paint/powder coat on the mating surface of the wheels when you had them refurbed. This wouldn't show up on a wheel balancing machine.

Scrape the mating surfaces and see if it improves things

Hi, thanks for the advice, much appreciated! The mating surfaces have already been cleaned, this did seem to improve it slightly, wheels have also been balanced and a full alignment done, I have a detailed separate thread in the bmw section. Cheers

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A bit of an update, I finally seem to have got to the bottom of the steering wheel vibration and brake judder . I had the front discs skimmed as they were quite recent which sorted the juddering but didn't affect the shimmy, I then replaced both upper and lower control arms with trw items which thankfully eliminated about 95% of the vibration......I'm rest assured I'm just being picky and anal by a couple of people that's driven it and can't feel anything. I had the alignment done again after they were installed and it now drives brilliantly again.

I'm not using it much at the moment unfortunately but had a trip to the borders yesterday and got a few pics whilst having a pit stop. Plans next are to wear these runflats down and get some non runflats fitted all round that should improve the ride hopefully. I've only done a few thousand since it was serviced but I've always been quite anal with oil changes and ECP had an offer on so got a few bits ready for another change shortly, will probably do 5k changes as it's soo cheap and I'm planning on keeping her.

Anyway a few pics from yesterday....

Edited by stevie99s on Monday 3rd October 12:00

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I've just managed to go through it's history in detail and was pleasantly surprised that obviously no expense has been spared and it's clearly been looked after. Amongst the many receipts including well over £1k for some runflats! Ouch! It's had the common dsc unit replaced and looking at the history in more detail it's never gone over 15k without an oil change.......still too long tho.

Plans next are possibly some spacers on the rear but I'm worried that they may scrub which has put me off?

I'm also wanting to do something about the gearbox oil as it's coming up to 96k, even just a drain and fill, any ideas?

Cheers

[toon10]

Nice car and quite subtle with the badge deletion. I had the manual E90 325 for 4 years and absolutely loved it although the E92 is better looking.

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toon10 said:

Nice car and quite subtle with the badge deletion. I had the manual E90 325 for 4 years and absolutely loved it although the E92 is better looking.

Thanks, the badge was a factory deletion as I found on the build sheet by the vin number, I have actually bought one then decided to keep it off

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Bit of an update, I've since done a few other bits like 12mm rear spacers which complete the rear a bit and replaced a Vanos Solenoid. Unfortunately due to using it once a week if that and unfortunately my girlfriend can't get insured on it it's now up for sale. (Not sure if I'm allowed to mention that mods/shameless plug )

Edited by stevie99s on Thursday 19th January 12:43

Edited by stevie99s on Thursday 19th January 12:45