E85/E86 Steering Problems (Solved)
- Thread starter Joycey
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dunks said:
Last question guys before attempting this tomorrow, honest!
Looking at the ring from the direction above, is it CW or ACW to increase the clearance of the teeth?
I think Joycey said earlier in the thread that to the left (ACW) as you look at it in the pic is to tighten.
Great pics/thread this, really makes it clear what/where to adjust. Doesn't bear thinking about what some folks must have spent trying to solve this, only for a simple quick adjustment to be the answer.
Hope I never have to do this, but its bookmarked just incase!
Rob_benton
Member
I have just completed this in10 minutes. Using a 8mm spanner and a extra spanner on the end of the 8mm for leverage.
I pulled the ring towards me approx 12mm by hand when the ring bolts are loosened.
Worked perfectly.
No more wandering at 70mph and doesn’t feel jittery around town.
It took longer to put the bloody trim screws back in !
I pulled the ring towards me approx 12mm by hand when the ring bolts are loosened.
Worked perfectly.
No more wandering at 70mph and doesn’t feel jittery around town.
It took longer to put the bloody trim screws back in !
MJJamieson
Member
Official BMW Procedure.
Interesting find.
I checked with my official TIS version that sits in ISTA-D. That is from 22-11-2014 (ver. 3.46) so quite old already (for ISTA terms, the old tis was from 2007). That version also has this page already albeit slightly different. These is no distance listed for D (here D=5mm), but you can read the 5mm on the picture with the caliper.
I first mentioned the method here on 19th of june 2015: https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1153983#p1153983 ; by then lots of people in DLD/NL had done this mod.
On the german z forum they first started experimenting with it and reporting it around may 2014:
http://www.zroadster.com/forum/index.php?threads/aktion-problemlenkung.59821/page-75#post-1943088
It never came up in me to look it up in the new TIS because the old one obviously never mentioned it.
Maybe the new tis has more answers to other previously not displayed/solved problems.
I checked with my official TIS version that sits in ISTA-D. That is from 22-11-2014 (ver. 3.46) so quite old already (for ISTA terms, the old tis was from 2007). That version also has this page already albeit slightly different. These is no distance listed for D (here D=5mm), but you can read the 5mm on the picture with the caliper.
I first mentioned the method here on 19th of june 2015: https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1153983#p1153983 ; by then lots of people in DLD/NL had done this mod.
On the german z forum they first started experimenting with it and reporting it around may 2014:
http://www.zroadster.com/forum/index.php?threads/aktion-problemlenkung.59821/page-75#post-1943088
It never came up in me to look it up in the new TIS because the old one obviously never mentioned it.
Maybe the new tis has more answers to other previously not displayed/solved problems.
bladeowner
Senior member
GuidoK said:
Yes, thanks for the heads up Guidok
I did mine in June 2016 after reading your post. I initially moved mine 5mm but increased it to 10mm a few months later. There is no stickiness at all now but I can still 'feel' a difference between cold days and hot days (or when the heater has been on for a while).You mean the tramlining effect where the car is steered into the ridges of the tarmac caused by heavy lorries?
Thats mainly solved by ditching the runflats and maybe in limited effect adding rear trailing arm limiters (or rear trailing arm bushings that have the limiters build in).
Sticky steering is more an effect where it seems that a small magnet holds the steering in the center position and you have to break the steering wheel free from that magnet force before you can steer.
Thats mainly solved by ditching the runflats and maybe in limited effect adding rear trailing arm limiters (or rear trailing arm bushings that have the limiters build in).
Sticky steering is more an effect where it seems that a small magnet holds the steering in the center position and you have to break the steering wheel free from that magnet force before you can steer.
Rob_benton
Member
loftust said:
Solved mine after trying everything else. You have nothing to lose.
ionofchios
Member
Just had a go at this, but can’t get enough leverage on the bolts with my hand up inside the dash. Mine’s and e86 and it has allen bolts, not torx. I’ve got an allen bit, then universal joint, short extension, then T piece (all 1/4 inch), but I can’t get enough leverage on it. There’s not enough room to get anything longer up in there either. I suppose I’ll have to take the whole steering assembly out if I can’t find a way.
Any advice?
Any advice?