Re: shaking at highway speeds??? (archive)

Have a mechanic inspect the ball joints. Can you tell wether it's comming from the front or the back? I don't know what's the suspension on the 7's, but i just helped my friend yesterday to change the (front) A-arms on his E30. Getting the old bushings out and putting new in is a major pain without the press. I seriosly recommend you have the workshop guys do the pressing part. I don't know how much they would charge you, but not a lot ($20, maybe $50 tops). The rest is fairly easy.

If the suspension is the same, ofcourse. It took us 4 hours for a wheel with beer and smokes...

for the whole thing with parts and everything a mechanic would do it for probably 500-600

i just bought i 1989 735i with 110,000 on it and the guy told me he had these bushing that he never got around to putting on. they are about the size of a can of soda and are rubber. My question is my car shakes at highway speed, not when acceleratin or braking, but when i have the cruise on or when im keeping a steady velocity. do these bushing i got with the car have to go on, how hard of a job is this to try...i have worked on domestic cars but no imports. how much would a dealer get to do something like this
thanks
david

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