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Old 01-19-2009, 05:19 PM
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Default After putting my car on the lift today...

to change my tires and brakes, I noticed that 1. I had an oil leak from what looked like it was leaking from a line from the oil cooler
2. Both upper control arms need replacement
3. Front driver side DRC started to fail, and had the pass. side one replaced about 6 weeks ago. Am I the only one that feels that this car is just too fragile....I know theres a lot of maintanance on these kind of cars but DAMNNNN lol
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how many miles?
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Just under 20k
Old 01-19-2009, 06:05 PM
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x=19
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Default surprising the control arms went

drc may have contributed...

these cars do seem to be 'shaky'

my BMW's
e30 225k
e36 200k
e46 145k and counting

only usual problems, except the e46 engine failed after the bearing SIB
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are those bmw's in miles or km. You should know better mr. engineer! :-)
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its in jigawatts
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nope its def jigawatts, 1.21 of them to be exact
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do control arms actually break? I thought they have replaceable bushings?


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