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FC	05-22-2017 10:51 AM

Just found out this apparently had already happened on the other side a few months ago.

rumatt

05-22-2017 11:24 AM

He fixed one of them, left the other, and did a heavily loaded trip with his family?

For real?

Nick M3

05-22-2017 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by rumatt (Post 504796)

He fixed one of them, left the other, and did a heavily loaded trip with his family?

For real?

It's a lot easier to fix when you don't care about the panel.

ff	05-22-2017 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by FC (Post 504795)

Just found out this apparently had already happened on the other side a few months ago.

And that didn't prompt the owner to check and fix the other side too? And instead load the car down and go on a road trip?

wdc330i

05-22-2017 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ff (Post 504798)

And that didn't prompt the owner to check and fix the other side too? And instead load the car down and go on a road trip?

My thoughts exactly.

bren	05-22-2017 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by ff (Post 504798)

And that didn't prompt the owner to check and fix the other side too? And instead load the car down and go on a road trip?

That's a slippery slope on a high mile e46. Ask Matt....

rumatt

05-22-2017 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bren (Post 504801)

That's a slippery slope on a high mile e46. Ask Matt....

Ha, but when one shock mount fails, you fix both of them!!! That part's not slippery.

I know this because when my first one failed, I left the other and it failed a few days later. :lol:

(But I didn't go on a frigging loaded road trip. I changed the first one on the side of the road, and was planning to do the other in 2 weeks. It also failed before I got the chance. :banghead:)

FC	05-22-2017 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ff (Post 504798)

And that didn't prompt the owner to check and fix the other side too? And instead load the car down and go on a road trip?

Right. He knows it and feels like a fool for not doing both at the same time.

bren	05-22-2017 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rumatt (Post 504804)

I know this because when my first one failed, I left the other and it failed a few days later.

:lol:

Terri Kennedy

05-22-2017 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick M3 (Post 504797)

It's a lot easier to fix when you don't care about the panel.

In a wagon, it is a real PITA because you have to disassemble the interior:

https://www.glaver.org/shocks_brakes/6F5S4620-l.jpg

Which is why you use Rogue Engineering RSM's and never have to take things apart again (all access is from the underbody):

https://www.glaver.org/shocks_brakes/6F5S4612-l.jpg

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