E36M3 rear end rattle/clunk

[Tony Canike <canike@xxxxxxxxx>]

In my 14 years of E30 experience, rattles and clunks in the rear are 
usually either stuff in the trunk or exhaust system hitting the body 
somewhere.   Sounds like you took everything out of the trunk already.

Exhaust system hitting the body is difficult to spot on a lift, unless it 
has gone on long enough to make shiny spots.   I had an annoying problem 
with the exhaust hitting the body that was almost completely solved when a 
broken motor mounts was replaced.  A number of other things were done at 
the same time (adjust muffler hangers, etc.) so I'm not really sure what 
fixed the problem.

Everytime I do my own exhaust system work, it has taken me a couple of road 
tests and readjustments  of the exhaust hangers to get the clunks to go 
away.

Hope you find it,

Tony.


At 03:58 PM 12/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:46:58 -0800
>From: "Vitaliy Mogilevskiy" <vit100gain@domain.elided>
>Subject: E36M3 rear end rattle/clunk
>
>I am experiencing rattle/clunk in the rear suspension of my 99 M3.  It
>started shortly after I *upgraded* my suspension to H&R/Bilstein (sports).
>The noise is only noticeable when going over bumps, I cannot reproduce it
>any other way.  No one so far could identify the source of this rattling.

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