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Originally Posted by Smoothound
I took the car to local garage : Mad4Mini - run by an ex-BMW mechanic.
He's seen this a few times on 3 and 5 series and says in many cases all that's needed is some lubricant in the right place. As an example he said that one of his mates had a 5 series and had the exact same problem. They lubed up the ball joints and 12 months later it's still fine.
The fix: making a very small hole in the bush, and filling it with grease/lubricant. He spent 20 mins putting the car on the ramps, making the holes, squirty-squirty and back off the ramps again.
He said it might take an hour to a day to start working, but the result was instantaneous. The squeeks are gone 
Worst case, we need to replace the joints, he recons this would be <£200 to replace both. Based on £30 for the parts and 1.5 hours labour per side. Seems pretty fair to me.
So, if you're in the Leeds area and need your BMW servicing or repairing, go see Richard at Mad 4 Mini http://www.mad4mini.co.uk/
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could you tell us where the holes were drilled and what grease was used?