Just had my other front go within a week :headbang:
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Broken Springs - List (add yourself if you've been affected)
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Having both rears done today. NSR broken and the DSR on the way out so having that done too.
2007 2.5Si
42000 miles.
2007 2.5Si
42000 miles.
Divers side rear spring snapped today, which brought the planned drive to an abrupt end :x :thumbsdown:
2009 Coupé, 43,000 miles.
2009 Coupé, 43,000 miles.
two more. that is four springs replaced in six years.
As an update of my post, when I took the car in for the spring i'd noticed, it turned out the other rear was snapped too.
With both done she should be good for a while.
2009 coupe, 43,000 miles.
With both done she should be good for a while.
2009 coupe, 43,000 miles.
ronk said:
Well, I've just done a quick count up and my good lady and myself had owned over 23 cars between us in our 30 years of marriage and as I remember it we have had ONE spring breakage in that time and I drive between 20 and 30 thousand miles a year.
However I do remember in the seventies I had two springs go on an Opel Manta SR Berlinetta, before the good lady was around.
I'm afraid I think this IS an issue with the Z4 but to be fair the number of tail ends from springs you see laid around the roads these days its clear there is an issue with springs in general.
As an added note one of the Z4's I looked at before buying mine had been fitted with a set of rear springs at MOT time missed the next time but needed a new set the time after :headbang:
Cheers
Nev
The front n/s spring recently snapped on my 2004 2.5 
Fortunately it went as I was leaving my drive so I wasn't left stranded miles from home. Just a bit gutted that it happened on a nice sunny day when I had decided to use my Z for work!
What I thought would be a relatively easy and not too expensive job to replace both front springs has escalated into me now replacing the whole of the suspension on the front of the car and I am now part way through reassembling everything.
On removing the springs, the shocks looked past their best so I have decided to change these. I managed to snap the heads off the bolts which hold the bottom of the shock onto the kingpins (despite my best efforts not to) so I have ended up buying some good second hand kingpins and swapping the brake discs and calipers over off my old ones, as I tried to drill out one of the bolts and ended up snapping a stud extractor. In removing the kingpins the ball joints looked like they had seen better days so ended up replacing the track rods and the control arms as they come as a complete unit.
It has cost a small fortune in parts although saying that I am glad that a lot of the part numbers are interchangeable with E46 BM's which at least means the parts are readily available! I have also learned a lot along the way!
I have only owned my Z4 a couple of months - as a third car it is garaged and I only use it on nice days, so at least having spent loads on my new suspension I should be able to keep it in good condition for the foreseeable! :driving:
Fortunately it went as I was leaving my drive so I wasn't left stranded miles from home. Just a bit gutted that it happened on a nice sunny day when I had decided to use my Z for work!
What I thought would be a relatively easy and not too expensive job to replace both front springs has escalated into me now replacing the whole of the suspension on the front of the car and I am now part way through reassembling everything.
On removing the springs, the shocks looked past their best so I have decided to change these. I managed to snap the heads off the bolts which hold the bottom of the shock onto the kingpins (despite my best efforts not to) so I have ended up buying some good second hand kingpins and swapping the brake discs and calipers over off my old ones, as I tried to drill out one of the bolts and ended up snapping a stud extractor. In removing the kingpins the ball joints looked like they had seen better days so ended up replacing the track rods and the control arms as they come as a complete unit.
It has cost a small fortune in parts although saying that I am glad that a lot of the part numbers are interchangeable with E46 BM's which at least means the parts are readily available! I have also learned a lot along the way!
I have only owned my Z4 a couple of months - as a third car it is garaged and I only use it on nice days, so at least having spent loads on my new suspension I should be able to keep it in good condition for the foreseeable! :driving:
marcusrichphoto
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Rear nearside at around 75k, replaced both.