I seem to be the only breaking things lately..
I started to notice clunking in the rear, and after further inspection, found that my recently installed BW RTAB had some slop. The uniball/bearing they use had about 1mm in/out slop.
This was on the driver side, which is also the side that goes through wheel bearings.
Instead of raising this issue to BW, I decided to press out the balljoint and found a new rear upper control arm balljoint (part # 33306852895). I bought this part because BW's description states they use an "OEM balljoint".
So, I go to install it, and then realize it's about 9mm wider than the unit BW had used.
I have a press and widened the carrier to accept the wider bearing, but I need to source the other side just incase that one also fails.
Does anyone know the correct part number for this bearing? I will ask BW but thought I would ask here. The original part was a Meyle with blue rings. The replacement bearing I got was direct from BMW dealer, no brand markings on it.
And are these things known to fail? And what a PITA to remove it...