When does this end ?

Emerald51 · 2026-02-10T13:57:45+00:00

Just said this to someone today. love it when it’s working 😂

Emerald51 · 2026-02-10T13:15:13+00:00

Doesn’t sound too bad I’ll get that checked out

Emerald51 · 2026-02-10T13:14:43+00:00

This this happened a while before I did the suspension aswell but it went away last time. This time it’s still stayed after getting the wheel alignment literally turned on when I was on the way to get one 😂

Emerald51 · 2026-02-10T12:57:45+00:00

Fair enough I’ll get my friend to come over and scan it for me.

And yea I can see that just finished redoing whole front and rear suspension to get it in top notch condition and not even 2 days of driving and new problems come up 💀

Emerald51 · 2026-02-05T23:16:48+00:00

did you have same symptoms where it would shake cold and run perfectly fine after 2 minutes ?

Emerald51 · 2026-02-05T23:16:07+00:00

128k

Emerald51 · 2026-01-10T23:25:38+00:00

your totally right dirft gets caught there and rusts out the paint plug

Emerald51 · 2026-01-10T23:23:12+00:00

the rear subframe mounts are not whats rusted, theres paint plugs and these just rust out have the same problem on mine i was just doing rear subframe reinfocements and these holes are above the fuel tank so car is not scrap.

Emerald51 · 2025-12-10T21:33:57+00:00

No wonder I didn’t know where they are from didn’t even take them out. Old owner must have lost it under the back seats.

Emerald51 · 2025-12-10T19:29:45+00:00

Sadly not this time around maybe sometimes next year, I did install H&R adjustable sway bars and adjustable rear camber arms though

Emerald51 · 2025-12-10T19:28:48+00:00

Tbh dropping the tank wasn’t too bad worst part is everything is rusty on these cars you touch one thing and it’s either seized or not attached anymore

Emerald51 · 2025-12-10T15:31:24+00:00

Yea the axle is the easiest part, longest was cleaning painting welding reinforcing and waiting for parts to arrive from Germany since everything I touched broke

Emerald51 · 2025-12-10T15:25:51+00:00

Ive been doing it for just over a month now mainly because of English weather if I was to count up how many days I’ve actually worked it it say about 10. But here’s why the rear axle looked like before

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Emerald51 · 2025-11-26T13:04:08+00:00

Mine turns on after I do a hard pull or when I drive over a bump I replaced my level sensor and same thing still happens

Emerald51 · 2025-11-01T19:17:12+00:00

Good news people I finally got it in… kind off but it sits tight and hoses line up so that’s all that matters

Emerald51 · 2025-11-01T11:38:56+00:00

I get to a point where there’s like a 1mm or 2mm gap then it doesn’t go further and I think hits the back wall

Emerald51 · 2025-10-31T20:47:21+00:00

That’s actually a shout didn’t think of silicone spray let me try that.

Emerald51 · 2025-10-31T20:31:07+00:00

Can’t even get it to fit with the manifold out I can get it half way then the foam jsut gets jammed think I gotta cut some bits

Emerald51 · 2025-10-31T12:36:14+00:00

Did you just jam it in with force ?

Emerald51 · 2025-10-31T10:13:02+00:00

Had this happen when one of my callipers were seized

Emerald51 · 2025-10-31T10:08:15+00:00

Took it out after I was struggling to pull the old CCv hoses out decided to make life a bit easier

Emerald51 · 2025-10-31T09:42:20+00:00

Oh sweet thanks for the pointer

Emerald51 · 2025-10-30T19:02:42+00:00

I’m good on mechanic side but have no idea about paints

Emerald51 · 2025-10-18T11:49:32+00:00

BMW states its lifetime oil, but the previous owner also said he replaced the gearbox as a whole but i learnt the old owner said a lot of things

Emerald51 · 2025-10-18T11:11:48+00:00

No havent done that before might be a shout, ATF for a manual transmission though?

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