After the horror of the swirl-flap failure and engine swap, the E60 went off the road again at the start of December after an annoying MOT fail on imbalanced brakes, likely discs and pads, and split trailing arm bushes on the N/S. The tester also failed it on a bend in the rim of the N/S/R alloy wheel, which is reasonably bad, but enough to be an MOT fail I am not too sure.
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| This is the bush on the offending arm with the most play, but I still can't see a major split as I have with other bushes. |
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| Closer inspection reveals what could be a split on the right side of the pic, but it's still not a shut case. Maybe the rubber has separated from the metal outer and is moving around? |
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| Ok, so it's no small dent. The inner rim is bent, where the tyre sits, but I've had similar sized ones before that have been no problem. |
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| Is it repairable? Perhaps, but I have no spare wheel to use and a replacement is £200. Maybe the MOT tester was having a bad day? |
i fail mot for rear arm bushes, but when i inspected them they ok, think to change for powerflex,
ReplyDeleteIt will probably be your rear rose bushes mate, I've had this on MOT. They are more prone to MOT failure than the arms, but they're complex cars and MOT testers don't know why to call them so have us jumping through hoops. Check out this post - http://beemerlab.blogspot.com/2015/10/e60-replacing-rear-rose-bushes-lower.html
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