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Originally Posted by TriX5
We did a round trip to Toronto, ON and covered about 1200 miles in total. Pleased that the X5 ran perfect, only complaint was the loud squeal from my rear brakes on initial application. They are quiet at full brake pressure. On return I took them apart and checked that all is well. Lubed the back of the pads and chamfered the edges slightly. Improved things but the kids had about a 90 mile drive yesterday and this morning the noise is back. I will chamfer the pad edges a bit more next. Anyone have some suggestions what else to try?
I am tired of fighting the rear alignment, it refuses to adjust camber to less than 2.3. Toe is zeroed out pretty well but the winter tires are showing more wear on the inner shoulders than I like, not terrible but not perfect either. I want camber to be about 1 degree. The alignment guys recommended adjustable bushings for the inner lower arm but I haven't found any that I like. So, instead ordered adjustable upper control arms from Silver Project. It will take a week or two, I guess, before they arrive. Not sure about the poly bushings but I guess it will improve wheel control. Let's see how that goes....
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I'm not too well versed on suspension terms and adjustments, but would that be too much positive camber? I always thought that the X5s suffered from excessive negative camber (tops of rear tires tilted in too much...I think), although my suspension guy tells me that the adjustment window for the X5 allows for a lot of negative camber. He simply cranks the rears as far positive as possible, which still looks like a tiny bit of negative in the end result. So far so good though on the tire wear on my Geolanders at about 9k miles.
Let us know how the adjustable arms work out. I recall a guy on the other forum doing this and one of them bent in short order, but it was on a 5 series perhaps and he could have been flogging the car!
On a related note: I'm sitting down to order new rear shocks and all the extras (guides, bump stops, washer-gaskets, etc.). I'm going with Bilstein B4s (touring), and will move on to the fronts after I get the rears done.
Also, can anyone remind me what the small hose fitting on the bottom front left of the radiator does? I recall a hose going from here, across the bottom of the radiator to somewhere, but not the specifics. I did a quick RealOEM look and its not obvious to me what that fitting and hose support. Thanks.