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Originally Posted by upallnight
Unlessd you change the inner and outer tie rod distance you shouldn't have to do a realignment.
An X5 does not have a "wishbone" suspension. My Lotus has upper and lower wishbones in the front suspension.
Hey Andrew you have that old set of tension structs that I sold you that can put polyurethane bushing in.
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My wife's shredded front tires beg to differ also TIS directive is to perform alignment if any arms are removed from the knuckle. I think if doing the bushing only and in place you can skip the alignment.
I do have the struts. I am pretty sure my TS ready for replacement and I was planning to swap those bushings to swap the parts quick vs. press out my old while car is on stands.
I don't know why BMW calls half a wishbone a wishbone but they in fact do.
See. They really do.
Now BMW sometimes calls it a control arm but they never call the mostly forward pointing arm a control arm just tension strut or radius arm.
I never found any reliable source to dictate lower/upper and don't recommend using those terms.
I made up sideways/forward to differentiate since there is always confusion when talking about the front suspension arms on BMWs.