JuanPabloBongto
03-22-2013, 12:17 AM
Car:
2000 528it auto
Pertinent info:
4 brand new Sachs (oem) shocks, 4 new shock mounts, 2 new rear swaybar endlinks
front ctrl arms are good. 1 rear boot has a split, but it is stable (no play)
car is a daily driver, 17miles one-way to work and back
My lady's 2001 Ford Taurass is the Ultimate Driving Machine at our house.
We need to fix that.
I need YOUR suggestions and ideas on where to start for EACH OF THESE THREE PROBLEMS with my 528it:
1) Jiggly wagon butt
The best way i can describe this action is that it's the same ride a hoed-out wheelbarrow with a 5 yr old 20psi tire gives at the u-pull junkyard. So imagine that up/down wobble coming from the rear, as though you are PULLING the wheelbarrow over uneven ground. any disruption causes slight bouncing.
It shudders/bounces in a fast/tight oscillation when driven over seams in the highway @ all speeds.
When potholes/bumps are hit at cruising speeds, it BONKs over them. No sharp noises happen (no clunks, no thunks) but certainly the suspension is not doing the job somewhere.
It's almost as though the tires are overinflated, but when you check, they are not overinflated.
2) step-out / wicked oversteer bro
When the car drives over seams at highway speed, on gradual, large-radius, sweeping bends.... the back end stutters to the outside.
If i were riding a horse and experiencing this, I would believe that one of the rear horse hooves stepped on a branch that rolled us slightly toward the direction momentum was trying to take us. Unstable. I hate it.
3) Parkinsons by the traffic light
Whenever i come to a complete, gradual, controlled stop at a stop sign or stop light, the car stops, but the momentum does not.
I continue forward ever so slightly, and then the car jiggles to a standstill. like one of those springy doorstops that goes BOI OI OI OINNNNGGGGG.
Understand that the wheels are perfectly stopped, and yet I am a bobblehead until the car says i can cease.
The car is beautiful but it's driving me f---ing batty.
(I know that rear subframe bushings are suspects, but I don't think they'd cure all 3 insanities)
(it's too cold to DIY the rear suspension right now in MN so I'm going to load up on knowledge for a few weeks)
I've never wanted a Taurass so badly as when I drive this sh--box across railroad tracks or over a pothole.
I don't own any guns, or I'd need a carry permit so i could shoot myself in the face. I am going mad.
2000 528it auto
Pertinent info:
4 brand new Sachs (oem) shocks, 4 new shock mounts, 2 new rear swaybar endlinks
front ctrl arms are good. 1 rear boot has a split, but it is stable (no play)
car is a daily driver, 17miles one-way to work and back
My lady's 2001 Ford Taurass is the Ultimate Driving Machine at our house.
We need to fix that.
I need YOUR suggestions and ideas on where to start for EACH OF THESE THREE PROBLEMS with my 528it:
1) Jiggly wagon butt
The best way i can describe this action is that it's the same ride a hoed-out wheelbarrow with a 5 yr old 20psi tire gives at the u-pull junkyard. So imagine that up/down wobble coming from the rear, as though you are PULLING the wheelbarrow over uneven ground. any disruption causes slight bouncing.
It shudders/bounces in a fast/tight oscillation when driven over seams in the highway @ all speeds.
When potholes/bumps are hit at cruising speeds, it BONKs over them. No sharp noises happen (no clunks, no thunks) but certainly the suspension is not doing the job somewhere.
It's almost as though the tires are overinflated, but when you check, they are not overinflated.
2) step-out / wicked oversteer bro
When the car drives over seams at highway speed, on gradual, large-radius, sweeping bends.... the back end stutters to the outside.
If i were riding a horse and experiencing this, I would believe that one of the rear horse hooves stepped on a branch that rolled us slightly toward the direction momentum was trying to take us. Unstable. I hate it.
3) Parkinsons by the traffic light
Whenever i come to a complete, gradual, controlled stop at a stop sign or stop light, the car stops, but the momentum does not.
I continue forward ever so slightly, and then the car jiggles to a standstill. like one of those springy doorstops that goes BOI OI OI OINNNNGGGGG.
Understand that the wheels are perfectly stopped, and yet I am a bobblehead until the car says i can cease.
The car is beautiful but it's driving me f---ing batty.
(I know that rear subframe bushings are suspects, but I don't think they'd cure all 3 insanities)
(it's too cold to DIY the rear suspension right now in MN so I'm going to load up on knowledge for a few weeks)
I've never wanted a Taurass so badly as when I drive this sh--box across railroad tracks or over a pothole.
I don't own any guns, or I'd need a carry permit so i could shoot myself in the face. I am going mad.