Well where do I start............BMW Z4, 2004, 2.2 108K on the clock.
For the past few years I have been experiencing the dreaded clunk that seems to be coming from the rear of the car when changing gear. Every garage I had taken the car to couldn't hear it or if they did, said nothing to worry about, must be me.been driving me nuts everybody thinking it’s me.
The noise has now progressed and seems to coming through the gear box as well. The clunking can be heard when changing gear especially from 1st to 2nd, but now the noise has progressed into third.
The care is an absolute B***h to drive. After finding a local mechanic who specialises in performance cars I decided to book it for him to take a look. The 1st observation he couldn't find anything, slight slipping on the clutch, maybe the diff oil and gearbox oil need changing, but all the bushes are completely tight. Bang goes my diff bush theory there then.
After a week I decided to drop it down to him again, as he could not hear the noise properly the 1st time. He could hear the noise the second time and advised I book it in for an overhaul. Just picked the car up from the workshop today, as he had the car for most of the day and I have been given the following report............
As the car has had some bodywork done (before my time) on the front wing, and rear bumper (there’s some orange peel on the doors as well but thought nothing of it), he has concluded that the car has been in a bit of a smash shall we say. The drive line has an incredible amount of slack which seem to be coming from both the output shaft on the gearbox, along the prop shaft and down to the diff, allowing him to come up with the assumption there was an impact smash causing tension/compression on the drive line.. His opinion. Need a reconditioned gearbox, diff and propshaft...........
WTF
Does this sound legit??? Am I looking at a ridiculous amount of money to get this fixed or would I be better off taking it a gearbox specialist etc and see what they have to say????
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
