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Originally Posted by JCL
Your 325 is the same as your X5 with respect to the wheels spinning.
When it is lifted and in neutral, you can spin either or both wheels. That is because the driveshaft is spinning freely.
If the driveshaft can't spin (such as when it is in park) then spinning one wheel will spin the other wheel in the opposite direction.
It doesn't ever go in rwd, it is always in awd. Only the torque split changes.
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Thanks for the response JCL,
So It looks like I have a problem then. I had a feeling that was the way it worked as in the 325xi. In park I can spin them in any direction individually, specifically when I was changing the brakes and rotors, i noticed that when I had one wheel up in the air using a hydraulic jack in the front that it would spin freely on both front sides.
Now the question becomes do I have possible front diff damage, or something else?
Trying to get an understanding as to how it is linked up, my thoughts are mid transmission connected to transfer case which has both a front and rear drive shaft coming out going into a differential in the front and rear?
O Boy I hope I don't have to do this:
BMW TIS - 31 50 000 Removing and installing / replacing front differential (M54)