Whats up guys? So I picked up my 1995 530i 5 Speed back in february and have been loving it. She had about 61k when I got her, now shes at 72 and I've started getting some clunking. Originally I was getting big clunks under any hard acceleration in first or second and I determined my motor mounts were leaky and busted. I changed out the motor mounts with oem and the trans mounts with some 80A poly mounts from garagistic. This fixed it until I started getting clunks anytime I put the clutch in and some major vibrations. So I ordered Garagistic front and rear shift carrier bushings and OEM Flex disc and center support bearing and just got all those in. The sloppiness and clunks are much better now but I still am hearing an occasional clunk when letting the clutch out or letting off the gas and I'm thinking it may be suspension. What are your thoughts on what I should look to next? Is there any parts I may have missed? My plan hopefully in the spring is to buy the 16 Piece control arm set from FCP Euro and just go through everything down there. Thanks for reading and any input you may have
Lucky you with the low mileage. Unfortunately, 23 year old rubber is 23 year old rubber, and you could be looking at a few things if you’ve had to replace the things you did so far. Any indication as to where the noises are coming from?
Rear, I would say maybe think about doing the subframe bushings, especially because when you transfer the weight of the car it clunks. Shock top mounts also go bad, and can make some interesting noises. The front end refresh kit is a great idea, although it certainly isn’t cheap. Goodluck!
Yeah the low mileage is nice. I knew going into the purchase that I'd probably have to go through and refresh a lot of components my first year or two. Subframe bushings may be worth looking at next. I'm trying to hit the most dire things first, and shes slowly improving. The worst thing is that someone hit the car while street parked a couple weeks back so my rear bumper is cracked on the passenger corner and i have a dent in the quarter panel now
Rubber degrades with age as well as use. Your symptoms point to subframe mounts. They require special tools to change and are hard to find in good quality.
Hmmm that is possible. I wonder if Poly ones add much vibration. If they do I'll prob just buy OEM. Luckily I work at a Benz dealer and if I email the BMW dealer parts lady from my work email she gives me a decent discount
Thanks, I'm looking into doing those next because even if it isn't the clunk I want new ones. I tend to drive my car a lot. And BMW does still make the part I discovered, it just has to be shipped from Germany. The price really isn't bad either
Does powerflex not make the diff mounts?
I ordered mine from the dealer coming from germany today so they'll be here in a few weeks and theyre only like 60 a pop
They do - see the links below. 530s use the same as 540s, M5s etc.
https://www.bimmerworld.com/BMW-E39-...hing-Flat.html
https://www.bimmerworld.com/Powerfle...9-540i-M5.html
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