Horrible grinding sound from passenger side rear

[m5james]

Originally Posted by jmmeagher

Jump to conclusions much?

This problem started about 3 days ago. It was intermittant until yesterday. The car is sitting in the shop as we speak. Also, I'm certainly not surprised that things need to be repaired. I'm just understandably pissed off that BMW would make such an unreliable vehicle. I certainly don't expect it to fix itself.

I put 300,000 miles on my 1990 Chevy Silverado with 1/10th the amount of repairs that this vehicle experienced. I then turned it over to one of my construction crews that got another 30,000 until we sold it. I put 150,000 on my 1999 Mercedes E-430 with no major repairs other then the expected break job. I sold my Porsche 968 Cabriolet with 185,000 on it. It was in pristine condition and was only in the shop once or twice for anything other than regular maintenance.

Quit running your mouth, tough guy.

And my Chevy has 267k w/ only a lower control arm that needed to be replaced, but my point is...once it started making noise, I stopped driving it. I'm not being a tough guy, I'm asking why in the hell someone would continue to drive the car 1 mile, let alone 25-30 miles @ 5 miles intervals. The fact that you had to rock the car from D and R to get things unbound screams to stop driving. Common sense bro, so take your anger out elsewhere.