Update on this issue….
Low speed clunking is still there after new BMW sway bar links. I’ve also got a wheel wobble at 60mph that goes away in turns. I just had a balance job done, and the lower control arms are new. The sway bar itself and bushings look fine and the struts are 1 year old bilstein b4s. I put the car in the air yesterday and checked all the torques, general integrity, etc. on the front right where the clunk is.

The wobble that goes away in a turn makes me think that the issues are related to the thrust arm bushings. They are 2 year old Turner monoball pieces that I hoped would last longer. I have an old set of thrust arms so maybe I’ll press out the OE bushings in them and try a set of the Powerflex polyurethane bushings. I had hoped the mono ball bushings would last longer, but maybe not. The roads are terrible here, and the x5 does some limited off road- lite type driving during hunting season. Nothing cosmic at all…farm roads and fields.

Could the ball joint pieces that the wishbones connect to, at the hubs play a role? Mine are about 3 years old and I have a new set I could put in, but a) I’ve stripped one of the bolt heads on one side causing me to give this job up several month ago, and b) I need to get a slide hammer modified to pull these little bast@rds out.

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Original owner 2002 E53 X5 4.4i to 4.6i swap
2026 G80 M3 6 spd
2025 G06 X5 50e
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1972 Audi Fox
1986 Saab 900S
1996 BMW Z3
1998 BMW E36 M3 Sedan
2004 BMW E46 M3
2006 Audi A3 Quatro
1993 Mopar 318 Jeep Grand Cherokee
2015 V6 Jeep Grand Cherokee