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11-26-2009, 06:12 AM
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bizare suspension trouble in the rear, clunking/binding noise
This is JohnM50, I had a name change, saying to reduce any confusion.
Anyways, I have a strange issue that began a few days ago and its starting to not only worry me, its getting on my nerves! Beginning a few days ago, My left rear (driver side) wheel area began making strange clunking and binding noises whenever I hit some bumps and occasionally on hard acceleration. Tonight it has become worse. I have searched the entire rear end, I've dropped the trailing arm and made sure the bushing bolt was tight, so that was fine. All the other bolts were fine, no looseness, Shock mounts and towers appear perfectly normal, Searched the subframe mounts and they look just fine (Thank god!!!). Everything looks normal back there, and yet this noise will not go away. I am somewhat stumpted now. One thing I am going to try is switching the shocks from side to side and see if the noise moves, incase if its a binding shock, can bad shocks bind up? Both of these bilestines do show they have bottomed at one time according to the bottoming indicators on the shocks (previous owner). Anybody expirienced something like this? Any other places to look besides the shocks? I will be swapping the shocks from side to side when I also install the OEM sport springs because I am raising the rear back up. BTW anybody wanna buy these Eibach lowering springs? The'll be out soon and up for grabs. So, any other places to be looking at in the rear end? I'm running out of places to be looking. Any help would be great and appricated  Thanks in advance
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95 325is, Mtec body, 17" M3 contours, 5 speed manual, 204-207k miles
Last edited by z25is; 11-26-2009 at 05:20 PM.. 
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11-26-2009, 12:26 PM
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It could be your rear shock mounts and just because the bolt is tight doesn't mean that bushing isn't worn.
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11-26-2009, 05:19 PM
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Yeah they are Eibach, I was dead tired when I wrote that post last night and just miss typing shit, it was a long day both driving, and trying to figure this mess out.
I did actually begin thinking about the shock mounts, its possible the rubber is totally shot, I do have a brand new set here I haven't put in yet, I just need an air impact wrench to knock these things off and put new ones on. If worse comes to worse I'll just take both shocks out, shuv them into my backpack and ride my bike down to a shop where I can have them knock these mounts off and install the new ones. Before I got a look under neith the car I was scared to death that my subframe mounts were tearing up, thankfully they look perfectly fine, total relief to know thats not the problem. That would have been a total nightmare.
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95 325is, Mtec body, 17" M3 contours, 5 speed manual, 204-207k miles
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11-28-2009, 01:24 AM
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Solved, It was the shock mount, the rubber had become very loose from the metal part. Installed the new mount and no noise problems since.
Now I can continue on with the other work
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95 325is, Mtec body, 17" M3 contours, 5 speed manual, 204-207k miles
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