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Old 01-14-2018, 03:14 AM   #10
Terri Kennedy
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Carmudgeonly Ride: 2003 BMW 325xiT; looking for a new fun car
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Originally Posted by rumatt View Post
The fronts are blocked by a strut brace that is attached by a reverse torx bolt shown in the picture. I bought a female torx socket set and removed it to discover one front shock was set on full soft, the other 3/4 of a turn from soft.
Yikes! Where have you been parking this car, inside a brine tank?

The M3 strut brace (Bimmerfest group buy 15-odd years ago) is actually pretty good - it has multiple pieces, and the ends that go on the towers are round with openings in the middle (and nice plastic cover pieces to keep crud out). The only drawback is that you get a little sliding where those pieces bolt to the actual strut brace, but that movement isn't in the axis that really matters.



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Accessing the rear shock mounts is of course a pain in a wagon because it requires disassembling half the rear interior to get to them. But I decided to go for it and discovered it's even worse than that - they're not top adjustable (pic 2).
The wagon is the only varient that conceals them under trim. Get a set of Rogue Engineering RSM's and you'll never have to tear the trunk apart again:

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