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06-12-2012, 04:41 PM | #1 |
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bent rear arm / camber link
hey guys, i just discovered that my rear arms/camber links are bent when i took my car in to install my exhaust. do you think this is going to be covered by the warranty? what could have happened that would result to this? i live in sf, so it might be the ghastly potholes. the weird thing is, the car drives normally, and i dont notice anything out of the ordinary when i drive it.
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A pothole would likely destroy the wheel before it would a suspension component. To me it looks like it's been pried on/against
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Looks like towing/transport damage to me.
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Those are not your camber links..these are
The rear trailing arms are what you describe and they are designed to crush on impact (for safety reasons)..did you or someone before you hit something..curb, pothole..thats the likely culprit..they need to be replaced If a tow operator hitched you car to those he should be flogged..literally |
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06-12-2012, 11:04 PM | #7 |
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Just posted a few weeks ago about this - mine look the same, and the car has never hit anything aside from potholes. They are the sacrificial part of the rear suspension and designed to bend.
I see you've got 19s just like me...I bet there are a lot of other cars out there with trailing arms that look the same, the drivers just don't know it yet. Chances are your rear wheels are pretty toed out right now. The arms are about $50 each. |
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I had my car aligned and have very uneven rear toe (0.5 deg out/0.1 deg in) and the car tracks straight - since both of your arms look pretty bad, there is a chance the toe is close on both sides.
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Dealer likely won't warranty that. Bent usually means not covered.
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I had that rear trailing arm bend in half on me. Dealer did not cover under warranty due to the Eibach springs. They could not explain what would have caused it. Mine was bent in half like a V when it happened. Luckily I was on a crowded City road and not on a freeway when it happened. It just felt like the back end wanted to break loose all of a sudden.
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The appearance of those arms doesn't instill a lot of confidence - they are very thin stamped steel (though probably fairly high-strength). Given the stiffness of the rest of the arms (solid aluminum) it isn't surprising that they are deforming. They are carried over directly from other 3-series cars where the suspension linkage is likely quite a bit more compliant, not to mention higher profile tires - perhaps they are there to protect a weakness of the subframe.
Like I said before, I'm pretty sure this issue is more widespread than most believe, since a very small percentage of us actually inspect the suspension components on our cars closely enough to see the damage shown in the pictures. |
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It boils down to this - if you strengthen everything else in the suspension and leave the weak link the same, the weak link will deform at a lower load than the overall weaker system (i.e. in the non-M). Last edited by apecush; 06-13-2012 at 11:01 PM.. |
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