Welp, it's time to catch up on the assorted 335xi maintenance items

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08/04/2017 at 13:54 • Filed to: None

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I’ve been meaning to take care of several things on my 335xi but haven’t gotten around to them. And by “take care of” I mean “pay my indy mechanic a reasonable fee to do them because I don’t want to.” Now I’m finally getting to them! They include:

Un-bend 1 or possibly 2 of my front summer wheels (I probably should’ve stuck with 18s instead of 19s with the shitty Wisconsin roads, but they look so good)

Refresh brakes - StopTech Sport pads, Pagid High Carbon rotors, StopTech stainless lines, some kind of fancy high-temp fluid

Oil change

Driveline fluid changes (transmission, transfer case, front & rear diffs)

Coolant flush

Replace the rubber windshield seal that’s chewed up a bit around the corners

Maybe replace the clutch slave cylinder to fix a kinda hitch/pause in the clutch pedal

Maybe replace the front passenger wheel bearing to fix a squeak coming from that corner

Maybe replace the transfer case actuator worm gear with !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! because I have this pulsing noise that may be a symptom of the bent wheels but also possibly a worn transfer case worm gear

Yay for keeping on top of things and adding to the sizeable quantity of scanned receipts I keep in my service records archive so whenever I sell the thing I can show the prospective buyer how much stuff has gone into it.


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Kinja'd!!! 404 - User No Longer Available > Textured Soy Protein
08/04/2017 at 14:27

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How old were the driveline fluids? I took mine to my indie and he insisted I didn’t need to change them out. Mine’s 5 year old from the factory (I presume) with 43k kms on it.


Kinja'd!!! Vicente Esteve > Textured Soy Protein
08/04/2017 at 14:27

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Is it the N54 or N55?


Kinja'd!!! Textured Soy Protein > Vicente Esteve
08/04/2017 at 14:39

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N55


Kinja'd!!! Textured Soy Protein > 404 - User No Longer Available
08/04/2017 at 14:41

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My car is a 2011 with 51k miles (82k km) on it.

The transfer case is the one that I for sure would do, assuming I do the transfer case worm gear.

Transmission and diffs are perhaps less urgent.


Kinja'd!!! E90M3 > Textured Soy Protein
08/04/2017 at 16:35

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I heard the diff is a 45k mile service. Had the M3 done at 40k and the 328i done at 45k. The transmission is a different story, the M3 needs a service at 45k and the 328i is apparently good until 100k. I’m probably going to have the 3 flushed at around 60k just to make me feel better.