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Claude
Again, to sum up:- sway bar end link bar OK (no loose at all)
- Tie rod end ball joint OK (no loose there neither)
- Trust collar nut can't be tighter Maybe it is loose in the strut tube
- clunking noise heard only when the wheel passes over a good step / bump or pot hole, otherwise nothing there
- sometime not always, when slightly breaking at low speed (below 40 km),
i feel a vibration on this right wheel and hear the clunking noise at the same time. Can't reproduce this vibration when i jab the breaks at high speed
- tires are good (would say half milage done) no abnormal wear sign.
- From outside the car, near this wheel, running over a 2x4 stud produce the clunking noise and it come from the center of the wheel (at steering plate level) not from the strut head level.
2 things man which I dont think you read, it is either the strut being loose in the tube or the top strut mount. This is my opinion with your inspection of all other things being correct.
How about the strut mount? Also I wrote that jamming the brakes at SLOW, REAL SLOW speed will produce a clunk with a bad balljoint.
Edit: The strut still could be loose even though the collar nut is maxxed.
95 E34 530I V2.37
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