I was thinking about removing them the bushings are shot. It looks alittle different from just loosening the round strut cylinder and moving it 5 inches. If somebody can explain how I can get the cyclinder out of the way, I will take photos and add it to the DIY section to help others. I think I'm overlooking something. Thanks.

 

DIY Section there are a slew of write ups and pic...Support arms you mean control arms?

 

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DIY Section there are a slew of write ups and pic...Support arms you mean control arms?

Tension Strut. I call them Support Arms. My bad. 2005 545i

 

Yes then go into DIY tons of E60's have done this swap...you wanna do the whole arm a lot easier then a bushing

 

I have a question for you and hopefully you have not done your arms yet. I would have pm'd you but you do not have 5 post yet and you cannot receive PMs until then.

 

Geeze these things were so fricken easy to remove. took me all of 10-15 minutes and I did not even have to remove the wheel!


'course I have 20 inch wheels and there is more clearance with them vs. lets say a 17 inch wheel.

Yeah I'm a little lazy and yes the wheel tire combo is heavy.

 

 

i thought you had to compress the spring?

 

So decided just to swap the bushings I see...

 

Spring is part of the Strut assy up top.