rubber mounting engine noise solution

[ahvlanico]

Hello
Im french I hope you will excuse me for the poor translation of my "how to" done in french popular forums and seem to be welcome.
So On my 3.0D e535 I had lot of noise while turnig steeriing wheel, and strating to drive. Like big "clac" and some time "claclaclac"
Finaly it was due to Rubber engine mounting (suspencions)
I decided to chage them mystelf because BMw asked me about 540 euros to do it and the parts cost only 108 euros.




Le TIS bmw say:
move right engine support arm.
Remove engine mount from front axle support.

it sseam easy..
But the 4 bolt of support are glued and very difficult of acces..
I managed to remove 2 but not 4.
And you cant remove the engine mount without removing the arm, because they are too big.

So her is the solution I found :
remove wheels
remoove dust protectors
remove under car protection
remove glass clearner tank.

Now remove the 2 torx from the mounting and the 16mm bolt.

remove the 6 torx of the front axle support to down it.
To do it easier on driver side you can unbolt the sterring rack too.
Like this you have 5 cm morre to remove the mounting.
pics will tell you more:
mounting in his prison

too big to be removed

unbolt him

use torx

use a jack to lift the engine

unbolt the front axle/engine support

down it

lift engine

right side done

now the left




unbolt rack



hope it will help you !
regards
Nico