Originally Posted by SMOKEY53

I just replaced my lower control arms today with Meyle replacement arms (saves pressing out/in bushes).

Has made a vast improvement to the way the car steers - before it was very vague and the steering wheel and the direction that the car was moving in felt slightly disconnected.

Anyway, it handles much sharper now and the shimmy that I used to get under light braking at highway speed it gone.

Took about 2 hours to do from setup to clean up. You will need a ball joint separator. I bought one off eBay that matched the part number for the BMW tool. Unfortunately it was just a bit too small so I had to cut down the bolt that joins to the steering knuckle in order to get the clamp over it. I would have been stuffed without it though, it took a lot of force to get that end of the arm out and when it did finally break loose it shot out with such force it chipped the concrete.

Car needs an alignment but going to wait until I get the Billies/lowering springs in. Good luck!