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Old 11-09-2018, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by ralphy4321 View Post
HI

Whenever I hit a little pothole on road, i get some loud clunk on right side of car, not sure if its front or back or both. Could it be shocks or something else I should be looking for? My car just reached 100K miles, X5 4.8 2009.
This is the main symptom of a very common failure. The clunk is almost certainly the result of the failure of the orange cushions (aka Guide supports) on one or both of the front shock struts. You can check this by opening the hood and looking at the top of the struts for an orange powder.

FWIW I spent a lot of time diagnosing a similar clunk that I thought came from behind the driver. But eventually I looked under the hood and found the real culprit. Here are links to two threads with the gory details.

https://xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-forums/...unk-trunk.html

https://xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-forums/...build-diy.html

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