Re: 735i wheel woble

[Henri Baccouche <henrib@xxxxxxxxx>]

Voila...!

This the point I was trying to get across earlier.......in this thread.

When the thrust arm bushing or control arm bushing (pick your BMW
model....)
is worn out, the ball joint is too.

Regards,
Henri



Diana and Mike Kohlbrenner wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ebelmont@domain.elided <ebelmont@domain.elided>
>
> > Regarding my wheel woble I traced it down to the ball joint
> > on the control arm (unsure of the proper name). has anyone
> > replaced this before and if so is it an entire piece streching
> > across the center of the car or can the ball joint on the arm
> > be simply replaced? The piece in question attached to the
> > idler arm.
>
> After all that and it's not the thrust arm bushings -- darn...
>
> If it is attached to the idler arm and it is a skinny thing relative
> to the more massive arms that attach to the bottom of the
> strut, then it sounds like you are talking about a steering tie
> rod.  I haven't done those myself, so I can't vouch for the
> difficulty of the job, but as an example, Bavarian Auto lists
> the "Tie Rod Assembly" for your car at US$32.95.  You
> should probably do both sides.
>
> I don't know how you determined that this was the problem,
> but if with visual inspection/pulling and tugging there is any
> play in a joint it is definitely a "replace now" kind of thing.
> Hopefully, replacing the tie rods will fix your problem.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Kohlbrenner
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