hi
i'm new in the club. before my current 325, i was driving a 328 yr 2000 e46. at 90k kilometres, at uphill climbs, when i put very little acceleration, my gear starts to 'wok-wok-wok'! like a dying goose.
FYI, I clock about 35k kilometres a year. I was 2 years plus at that time.
AB told me to change the whole gear! Of course I flipped. who wouldn't at RM13k pricetag minimum?!
Went to Heritage to change my gear oil. last draw before i part with 13k or my whole UDM ( before my gear dies of this deadly virus it contracted )
told to whack the car a couple of kilometres. (not that i was not doing that! hehehe) no difference
BUT ... after 2 days. ... gone. My gear was as good as brand new!
It turns out, the way i drove my UDM, my gear oil thicken very fast. small holes in my valve body was plagued by by dirty oil much the same as cholestrol does to our veins.
pretty sure if i didn't change the oil, one ar more of the veins would ultimately get blocked and my gear would fail like a heart attack. AB would have loved that to happen.
Bear in mind that this problem will not show on the MODIC as it is physical, not electrical.
hope this would help my fellow UDM owners. our UDMs are just as much like us - it is just a normal human being, physically and emotionally
p/s cant say the same about my read differential gear. the freeplay was so bad at 175k kilometres that no oil change would do. I had to pass on down my UDM to a good samaritan (the used car) to help me pass down to another poor soul!
I hope he doesn't find me or know who i am!! fingers crossed!
