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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5150" data-source="post: 636807" data-attributes="member: 4173">Hi Tom328,I've experienced that problem of strut tower twice with 2 E36. Both of them same sequence, 1st car was my totaled e36 325i ori manual, first symptom was the sound of old-grandma-bed-spring sound from the rear, few weeks after that the RSM got blown and the shock's inner tube shot thru the trunk carpet, change Ori RSM straightaway but few days after that blown again and this time the tower got literally TORN. I straightaway did a research on the net and found a solution which consists of ordering the E36 M3 "Shock Absorber Support". Ask my mech to order them from Inner Power. But i need a transport so my mech offered to weld them without any support just for the meantime while waiting for the parts to arrive. Got them welded but 3 days after that the creaking sound came back and tak sempat to solve the prob bcoz 11 days after that while i was driving 90km/h a drunk driver hit my left rear and my car swerved and flown without wings hitting the sound proofing wall in MRR2 and my 1st udm was totaled. This 325i set up was Koni shocks and Eibach springs.2nd car is my current 97 328i Manual, now the first 3 months none of the symptoms arise so that time was so happy but unfortunately after i changed my set up to Bilstein PSS, no creaking sound this time, just blown RSM, called Fabianyee for his custom RSMs. reinforcement plate was out of stock.  Installed them and was trouble free for 4 months until 1 fine day, the dreadful torn-tower sound suddenly appeared.Found out that the custom RSM was intact but the whole upper shock tear its was thru the tower. Not in panic coz the M3 shock absorber support part has arrived, sent the car in, show my mech the "Torn Strut Tower Repair" page from forum.bimmerforums.com and asked my mech to do spot-weld welding exactly like they did. And i bought another custom rsm frm fabianyee just in case. Few days after that car went out till now no problem. fyi i work in klia from gombak and i always utilise the confidence-inspiring bmw accrdingly so my cruising speed is usually 180-220 everyday of course when the road is clear. That is whyi bought bmws, to feel safe while driving fast, roads are roads if they can do it at the autobahn, they can do it anywhere the problem is only the governments are different. but the cars, insyaAllah can take it.Since i've been hit from behind at 90km/h the speed limit there last year, i've made up my mind to drive according to my normal pace, under or above speed limit that's the regulation. But as friends say to me, kau kena drive laju mcm biasa that's where your sense of awareness is good, I dunno hihi</blockquote>

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