Cracking on the strut tower. Seam sealer?

[vaz4]

‘bmw e85 strut tower cracking” Into Google

I’ve been researching this for days and you think I haven’t done that? Lol, sheesh……. Feel free to post links since you know so many examples. Again, I am not referring to some of the documented issues with the top mounts and brace. This is obviously not a common issue

[B21]

‘bmw e85 strut tower cracking” Into Google

I’ve been researching this for days and you think I haven’t done that? Lol, sheesh……. Feel free to post links since you know so many examples. Again, I am not referring to some of the documented issues with the top mounts and brace. This is obviously not a common issue

As others have said, without scraping the sealant away to see the metal you will never know for sure..yes there are lots of top mounts cracking but I see others with cracks elsewhere..given the known flexing of the tower structure and how metal fatigue is insidious I wass proferring a view on the side of caution..if you've owned the car from new then maybe you know its history, otherwise who knows what and whyen and how often the structures have been stressed...

You should take a chill pill..folks here are only trying to help...

[vaz4]

‘bmw e85 strut tower cracking” Into Google

I’ve been researching this for days and you think I haven’t done that? Lol, sheesh……. Feel free to post links since you know so many examples. Again, I am not referring to some of the documented issues with the top mounts and brace. This is obviously not a common issue

As others have said, without scraping the sealant away to see the metal you will never know for sure..yes there are lots of top mounts cracking but I see others with cracks elsewhere..given the known flexing of the tower structure and how metal fatigue is insidious I wass proferring a view on the side of caution..if you've owned the car from new then maybe you know its history, otherwise who knows what and whyen and how often the structures have been stressed...

You should take a chill pill..folks here are only trying to help...

A chill pill? For simply replying to your smart*** reply asking for the links you keep referring to? I’ve highly appreciated the helpful responses I’ve received and I’m on here to help document an issue I have barely seen on these cars. I don’t need to deal with some stereotypical forum bully…. I’ll be going forward with most of everyone’s suggestions to chip it away and check to be safe and will be reporting this back to as many sites and I’ve been apart of since owning the car. Hoping this will get everyone checking their own car as I have no idea how long these have been there and I will hopefully be able to guide anyone through their own diagnosis. I just wanted to get as much information as possible and experiences as possible before I go hacking away at this stuff. Like you said, this is relatively common on older bmws but as rockhopper said it’s almost non existent on these cars. Hoping it ends up being nothing bad.