Thread: Steering shake at over 65mph
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Old 06-28-2019, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by crystalworks View Post
..... so I replace the entire front suspension. Yep, I'm a cheater. But it's amazing how tight a BMW with 100,000 miles+ on it gets after doing so. It's like night and day. Did the entire front end on the wife's X35d @ 155,000 miles for ~$700 in parts. She can't stop commenting about how much she loves it now. Happy wife, happy life, am I right?
Congrats! Most owners never suspect that everything is wearing out microns at a time. The whole suspension is flexing in those applications, so replacing one part only magnifies the slack on all the other components. CONGRATS on doing it RIGHT!
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