As you may heard bmw have a lot of problems with shaking brakes. You feel it when you brake at speeds around 100 kmh or less on your steering wheel. I replaced rotors and pads when they were worn, but I still had some shaking.
There was no play when you grab and pushed a wheel. No strange knocking under it, just shaking when I braked.
And here is troublemaker:
There were some small cracks, but nothing looked to bad. I purchased bushing from Meyle, Meyle HD is heavy duty improved version of a stock bushing. It is also called hydrolager, because in stock there is fluid in it.
Jack it up and first you need to remove plastic bottom covers and tyre. Than unscrew nut from ball joint. Don’t unscrew it all the way yet.
Take a hammer and put some taps on the arm and hope for the best 🙂 I had to use a very big hammer even there was no rust. On one side it was total night mare. I had to heat it, used some wd 40 and even used bigger hammer. When arm falls to nut leave it there and unscrew bushing on the front frame.
You will need a lot of power and 21mm wrench.
Remove bolt and unscrew nut on the ball joint.
It is easy if you have a hydraulic press, otherwise it can be a pain. You must align marks on bushing and front arm, there are 2 arrows. It should be the in the middle of the arm.
Then you install it back. Tight a bushing at ride height, I’ve read a lot and all are saying that shoud be tighten at ride height. You can just lift it with hydraulic jack on the brake disc to ride height and tighten it.
And you’ve done it. Now test drive and hope for the best 🙂 Hope is everything if you own a BMW 🙂
Here is one good one:
