Botond's Maintenance Log - KM08765

[ELCID86]

BP, you should at least change your oil filter. They tend to break down and disintegrate.

Also, worn suspension can lead to tire wear. Colin’s first 330Ci had cupped tires and the mechanic said it was due to the struts not keeping the tires firmly planted.

Drive to FCP and change them in the parking lot!?

[az3579]

my PSS don't do that, and another local car with brand new PSS don't do that. it does not really compress at all. no idea why, but that's been my experience with the PSS.

are you noticing anything weird on the road?

This all stemmed from some clunking I was hearing when going over bumps. Thinking it was worn bushings, we got the car up on a lift and found that the CABs, ball joints, tie rods, and sway bar end links were just fine. The sway bar bushings were a little loose and could use replacing, but they weren't that bad. My friend thought about it and suggested that perhaps the shocks are binding.

Since I don't know what that's like, I went to get a second opinion, and they then noticed the lack of rebound when the front was pushed down, which I found incredibly odd, especially considering that they're set to full soft right now. One of them was saying that appearance of the lack of rebound is normal, but did suggest that the binding could be a possibility.

I honestly don't have a clue what binding feels like. There's a particular bump that my car would always kind of bounce on a bit (due to being set soft) and it still absorbs that bump very nicely and does that almost-bounce like any normal car would do. It feels fine to drive on the street, but that clunking is there.

I told my friend that initially looked at the car that I'm going to replace the sway bar bushings anyway and see if the sound is remediated, despite him still being on the shock bandwagon. I figure sway bar bushings are cheap, so it's a cheap test, and the bushings have to get done anyway, even if the slop is minimal. Yes, I'm anal. lol

BP, you should at least change your oil filter. They tend to break down and disintegrate.

You didn't think I was gonna skip oil changes, did you? lol
Skipping oil changes (and filters) is out of the question!

Also, worn suspension can lead to tire wear. Colin’s first 330Ci had cupped tires and the mechanic said it was due to the struts not keeping the tires firmly planted.

That's another thing that makes me scratch my head. My tire wear is just fine; completely normal wear. The set of PSS tires has I think over 25k on the set and one front is worn on the inside and one rear is worn on the inside. Their matching pairs are very close to becoming worn to that point, so I don't have any unusual wear.

[slater]

did you check the top nut on the strut? even if it's 1/2 turn loose it will make noise.

[johnrando]

Hope it works out BP.

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[az3579]

Alright Peter, I bit the bullet and bought the Shell Rotella T6 5W-40 Diesel oil. I saw a couple of people with E36 M3's online that used it that said their valve clatter is quieter now, which the M54 suffers from as well after hard runs. The one guy said his oil consumption went down from 800 miles / quart to about 2000 miles, which is MUCH better!

We shall see if this does the trick. I will be changing my oil at the Reunion this weekend.

On a side note, I got a set of four new tires mounted today. They are Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 tires (aka Bridgestone Potenza Andrenalin RE003) in 255/35-18 size all around. They are so much quieter than my worn PSS set. I hope they stay quiet throughout the life of the tires, and definitely hope they don't tramline like the PSS' did. We'll find out early tomorrow morning when I head out to Ohio.

[san]

Alright Peter, I bit the bullet and bought the Shell Rotella T6 5W-40 Diesel oil. I saw a couple of people with E36 M3's online that used it that said their valve clatter is quieter now, which the M54 suffers from as well after hard runs. The one guy said his oil consumption went down from 800 miles / quart to about 2000 miles, which is MUCH better!

We shall see if this does the trick. I will be changing my oil at the Reunion this weekend.

On a side note, I got a set of four new tires mounted today. They are Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 tires (aka Bridgestone Potenza Andrenalin RE003) in 255/35-18 size all around. They are so much quieter than my worn PSS set. I hope they stay quiet throughout the life of the tires, and definitely hope they don't tramline like the PSS' did. We'll find out early tomorrow morning when I head out to Ohio.

How many mikes did you get from the PSS?


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[johnrando]

Hope they work out

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[az3579]

Lots of new entries, mostly related to... you guessed it: oil.



2017-09-25 -- 280,441 -- Oil top up - 1 quart (Mobil1 10W-30 Synthetic)

2017-10-06 -- 281,387 -- Oil top up - 1 quart (Mobil1 10W-30 Synthetic)

2017-10-18 -- 282,720 -- Oil top up - 0.5 quart (Mobil1 10W-30 Synthetic)

2017-10-19 -- 282,833 -- Replaced (4) summer tires (Firestone Firehawk Indy 500, aka Bridgestone Potenza Adrenalin RE003 - 255/35-18 all around); alignment (requested FL+FR: -2 camber, RL+RR: -1 camber, -0.1 toe)

2017-10-20 -- 282,837 -- Oil top up - 1 quart (Shell Rotella T5 10W-30 Synthetic)

2017-10-22 -- 283,645 -- Oil change (Shell Rotella T6 5W-40 Synthetic) with filter (Mann 925/4x)

[derbo]

come on 300k! we setting up a party for that?

[nextelbuddy]

sheesh..... ole girl likes to eat