input please from anyone with H&R Sports fitted

[ravibasuta]

Whats the recommended drop? Just picked my F80 up and would like it just a little lower!
Glad your issue was resolved as i was looking at HR springs.

[t5pilot]

Originally Posted by ravibasuta

Whats the recommended drop? Just picked my F80 up and would like it just a little lower!
Glad your issue was resolved as i was looking at HR springs.

I think it depends on if you have or will have an additional front splitter. I have, and with all the speed bumps in my county, I couldn't go 40mm lower on H&R's.

So I went Eibach Pro Kit, which is about 25mm front, 30mm rear. And so far, no scraped splitter... But It's been very close on a few occasions...

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by t5pilot

I think it depends on if you have or will have an additional front splitter. I have, and with all the speed bumps in my county, I couldn't go 40mm lower on H&R's.

So I went Eibach Pro Kit, which is about 25mm front, 30mm rear. And so far, no scraped splitter... But It's been very close on a few occasions...

Yeh i have the CF splitter on mine. Will check it out, how do you rate the springs so far? Alignment i take it after?

[t5pilot]

Originally Posted by ravibasuta

Yeh i have the CF splitter on mine. Will check it out, how do you rate the springs so far? Alignment i take it after?

They're great. 12mm spacers all round too. Yes, KDS alignment afterwards.

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by t5pilot

They're great. 12mm spacers all round too. Yes, KDS alignment afterwards.

Nice! Stance must look spot on!

[t5pilot]

Originally Posted by ravibasuta

Nice! Stance must look spot on!

I like it, will post a pic or two tomorrow for you

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by t5pilot

I like it, will post a pic or two tomorrow for you

Cool that would be great bud

Eibachs circa 200 at the minute
Macht schnell spacers im sourcing...

[t5pilot]

Nah... I got mine from here...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Eibach-Fah...72.m2749.l2649

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by t5pilot

Nah... I got mine from here...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Eibach-Fah...72.m2749.l2649

Looks spot on! Thanks for the link!

[jamiesecker]

Originally Posted by t5pilot

Nah... I got mine from here...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Eibach-Fah...72.m2749.l2649

Looks great, being looking at the BMW kit but struggling to justify £1700 when I have Eibach on most of my other BMW,s and always done the job nicely.
Where did you get the spacers and any reason for non Eibach?
Cheers,
Jamie

[t5pilot]

Originally Posted by jamiesecker

Looks great, being looking at the BMW kit but struggling to justify £1700 when I have Eibach on most of my other BMW,s and always done the job nicely.
Where did you get the spacers and any reason for non Eibach?
Cheers,
Jamie

Eibach springs, but spacers are Eibach replicas. Identical to look at, but iirc they were £100 for all 4 with extended bolts & bimmec extended locking bolts.
Got them from eBay, from a place in Bradford, soz, name of dealer escapes me.
My full carbon kit was £1k fitted. That was from German Rush UK. Pleased in the end, but their customer service is, quite frankly, appalling.

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by t5pilot

Eibach springs, but spacers are Eibach replicas. Identical to look at, but iirc they were £100 for all 4 with extended bolts & bimmec extended locking bolts.
Got them from eBay, from a place in Bradford, soz, name of dealer escapes me.
My full carbon kit was £1k fitted. That was from German Rush UK. Pleased in the end, but their customer service is, quite frankly, appalling.

Got my Eibachs and Macht Schnell 12mm spacers all in today!

Will get some pics once all fitted up soon!

(Geometry/Alignment a must at some point after)

[slaughter.mode]

Resurrecting this thread, having the same issue with my '18 F82 ZCP. The shop swears it has nothing to do with their installation and that it was the steering rack. Huh?

Anyway, they're idiots and an hour away from me so I'm wondering if I have to have the strut under load when doing the loosen & re-tighten method (41lbs-ft torque, right?). I only have a single floor jack unless a pair of race ramps will do the trick. Thinking of ordering them anyway so I can do oil changes, etc.

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by goaty

Resurrecting this thread, having the same issue with my '18 F82 ZCP. The shop swears it has nothing to do with their installation and that it was the steering rack. Huh?

Anyway, they're idiots and an hour away from me so I'm wondering if I have to have the strut under load when doing the loosen & re-tighten method (41lbs-ft torque, right?). I only have a single floor jack unless a pair of race ramps will do the trick. Thinking of ordering them anyway so I can do oil changes, etc.

Got an unerving clunky noise occasionally on bumps but more when i try and full lock?

Left side more so. Will get tracking checked. But reading this i dont know whether i should recheck fitting of the eibach front springs!

[slaughter.mode]

Originally Posted by ravibasuta

Got an unerving clunky noise occasionally on bumps but more when i try and full lock?

Left side more so. Will get tracking checked. But reading this i dont know whether i should recheck fitting of the eibach front springs!

Mine is really just when going for full lock and when in reverse at very low speeds, like hard parallel parking (which I rarely do). Otherwise, it's fine. Maybe I'm just being overly OCD.

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by goaty

Mine is really just when going for full lock and when in reverse at very low speeds, like hard parallel parking (which I rarely do). Otherwise, it's fine. Maybe I'm just being overly OCD.

Has it got anything to do with that thin tinny playe that sits at the back of the brake discs? Sounds similar to the clunk of that material?

Because mines more noticeable than before its got me a little worried that i want it looked at.

[slaughter.mode]

Originally Posted by ravibasuta

Has it got anything to do with that thin tinny playe that sits at the back of the brake discs? Sounds similar to the clunk of that material?

Because mines more noticeable than before its got me a little worried that i want it looked at.

The shield? Hmm, I suppose it could be, I'll double check.

[sonicfly]

Originally Posted by Jimbooo

Update - problem solved.
After much prodding, poking and head scratching it turned out to be the noise was coming from the "cup like seat" that the bottom of the front shocks sit in. The bolt wasn't tight enough and the shock was shifting in the seat where it connects to the hub.

It's alloy and the mechanic has bent one in the past by over tightening so eased off on the torque. This time he undid it, we moved the steering wheel lock to lock a few times then did it up tight.

And the noise has gone

Hey Jimboo,
Do you have any picture of the bolt? My BMW workshop is looking sfter that issue since 3 days. They couldn’t solve it yet.

Thanks Mate

[Jimbooo]

Originally Posted by sonicfly

Hey Jimboo,
Do you have any picture of the bolt? My BMW workshop is looking sfter that issue since 3 days. They couldn’t solve it yet.

Thanks Mate

I've got a video on my phone I can send you. Pm me your number and I'll wattsapp over to you. Can't see how to upload a vid on here from my iPhone.

However. Although that did make the noise go away it did come back after a month or so. Turned out my top mounts were not correctly torqued (another think for your guys to look into.) apparently they need to be torqued to the correct amount (I don't know what that is though). And tightened off the ramp. Often they are done up in the air when the suspension isn't under load.

Once that was done the clicking noise went away.

[Smeargle]

To respond to the thread, I've had H&R sports fitted for well over 15k miles now and I've never heard any of the sounds mentioned in this thread. I definitely go over a considerable amount of bumps as well(the roads in NY are comparable to driving on the moon) so I would say either your bushings are shot, or installer error. Also definitely don't go to the dealer for an alignment because they're gonna put oem alignment on your car which isn't good for a lowered car.

As for the side convo going on about spacers, here's my fitment with H&R sports and 15mm rear/12mm front macht shnell spacers :wink:

[ravibasuta]

Originally Posted by Smeargle

To respond to the thread, I've had H&R sports fitted for well over 15k miles now and I've never heard any of the sounds mentioned in this thread. I definitely go over a considerable amount of bumps as well(the roads in NY are comparable to driving on the moon) so I would say either your bushings are shot, or installer error. Also definitely don't go to the dealer for an alignment because they're gonna put oem alignment on your car which isn't good for a lowered car.

As for the side convo going on about spacers, here's my fitment with H&R sports and 15mm rear/12mm front macht shnell spacers :wink:

Looks great that! My clunks which I discovered was down to bad fitting! Screwed up the top mount bolt!had to be rethreaded and fixed by BMW.

Safe to say i wont be visting that guy again...
Sold my springs, hence selling my spacers.

[NORAGRETS]

Originally Posted by Jimbooo

Update - problem solved.
After much prodding, poking and head scratching it turned out to be the noise was coming from the "cup like seat" that the bottom of the front shocks sit in. The bolt wasn't tight enough and the shock was shifting in the seat where it connects to the hub.

It's alloy and the mechanic has bent one in the past by over tightening so eased off on the torque. This time he undid it, we moved the steering wheel lock to lock a few times then did it up tight.

And the noise has gone

Hey can you pin point this on a photo for me I'm having the same issue and its driving me insane