Hi Erich and thanks for the reference to that thread.
My steering does squeek in one position in the cold weather, but not hot weather. Hasn't driven me mad as it has some people, but something I always intended to get around to "one day".
As you have played around with the steering column as such, you might be able to advise:
In one of the replies it was mentioned that an E46 member had drilled a hole through the column from the inside of the cabin and filled up to said hole with a lubricant and this obviously saturated the bearing and solved his problem.
Would that also work in our E34's as it seems a better solution in many ways - ie: get more lubricant in, less hassle to apply and always accesable to repeat if neccessary.
But I don't know if the spindle and bearing arrangements are the same which is why i'm asking.
I realise that your fix was a different problem being at the top of the column, but the referenced thread states that most common is the bottom bearing as a starting point and if you have good knowledge of the steering column arrangements, you might be the best person to advise.
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