Attention all E36 owners

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James998

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Do yourself a massive favour and check your rear subframe mounts, I had quite an early (registered 1/1/1993) 325, ran it for maybe a month with a welder on and noticed quite a bad knocking noise turning a long left turn going fairly slow, dropped the subframe to find these;





They must have been there when I first bought the car (Only maybe 6 weeks/2 months prior to noticing), although accelerated when running with a welder, and this car wasn't even bad with rot (I had a touring previously that had soft jacking points, and i've seen some absolutely hanging E36s)

Cheers!
 
it's a well known problem - as you can expect affects the earlier H/J/K/L platers worst as time goes on. I lost my H-plate 325i to it.

BMW stock the reinforcement plates with these part numbers

41 00 2 256 495
41 00 2 256 496
41 11 2 256 497
41 11 2 256 498

they came fitted as standard to post-95 M3 shells i believe.
 
Yes you can see the cracks forming near the spot welds, you should search the forum and watch reddish Motorsports on YouTube.
 
It's not just common on the 46 M3, it's pretty common on all 46's.

Same with the 36, it's certainly nothing new anyway, most people that own one know about the problem.
 
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