I saw my tire guy today, he said defiantly mechanical noise, not tire. His guess is bearing. My replacement bearing I used were FAG, as understood by Bavarian Autosport as "original BMW" but I see FCP is selling what they list as "BMW" bearings for twice as much as there FAG. Curious as to what brand others replaced with??

My gut has me thinking my noise was always/is bearing noise and I am trying to convince myself otherwise.
I will attempt it again, but will have them pressed in/out by machine shop. I never got a good feeling that the manual bolt/dies gave an even, clean install.
Tire guy didn't think it sounded too bad and not an immediate need, but I don't like it and will probably be laying out in the driveway in zero degree winter.

Loved Ricky Bobby's old school lesson. Wy too many "one time tools" involved in German cars

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2004, X5, 3.0, 202k+