[E92William]

Originally Posted by 213e90n51

i just put different wheels and tires on my car and it does make a noise when coming to a stop. What mileage can these things happen? Its so weird how certain bmws with certain mileages have issue. its prob wear and tear or more use

I'm obviously not an expert on this but I suppose if your car was fine and now makes a howling sound after putting different tires on it could be them doing it. Coincidences exist though so I'd try going to a different set of tires. Which I had an extra one myself to troubleshoot my howling noise

[213e90n51]

Originally Posted by E92William

I'm obviously not an expert on this but I suppose if your car was fine and now makes a howling sound after putting different tires on it could be them doing it. Coincidences exist though so I'd try going to a different set of tires. Which I had an extra one myself to troubleshoot my howling noise

i have 200 treadwear tires maybe thats why

[e90yyc]

Originally Posted by blown07

100% sure. I've done both the front bearings on my car. If you drive it without the part you've shown you are relying on the press fit holding your entire wheel on.

Edit - not sure if a 328xi is different but there are no bolts involved with the 335xi front hub bearing

They’re press-in on all four corners, so you’re spot on there.

[nsjames]

the stub of the cv is what sets the preload in the bearing.

a common trail fix for a broken axle shaft is to disassemble the shaft and use the outer stub just to hold the unit bearing together.

running without the outer stub will destroy the bearing in very short order.

[blown07]

Originally Posted by nsjames

the stub of the cv is what sets the preload in the bearing.

a common trail fix for a broken axle shaft is to disassemble the shaft and use the outer stub just to hold the unit bearing together.

running without the outer stub will destroy the bearing in very short order.

These are double roller ball bearing and do not rely on the outer nut to preload the bearing rather just to full seat the bearing and hold it in place using the solid center portion of the bearing. The only failure that would happen is the whole bearing coming off the hub if there was no nut/axle.

[E92William]

What I have in mind is to disassemble my damaged axles and use the stub or cv joint or whatever it's called like you guys said and have it bolted to the hub to hold the bearing in place while not having an axle there and on the differential side I have different sized cap plugs I could use to cap it.

Hopefully these axles come apart easily, the videos make it look not hard to do but we all know how youtube repairs differ from reality.

[E92William]

Ofc it couldn't come out easily will have to likely buy an electric impact for this or something. I'm overdue for one anyway

[e90yyc]

Originally Posted by E92William

Ofc it couldn't come out easily will have to likely buy an electric impact for this or something. I'm overdue for one anyway

Yeah. You're probably gonna want an impact for that. Torque spec is 420 Nm (~310 ft-lb).

I took my wheels off yesterday and did some checking. My axles have the exact same play in them that you showed in your video. The rears do not have any play.

Keep me posted on the result of your axle replacement!

[colorado.e9x]

+1 I'm curious as well. Hoping it's not contributing to my low speed clunk

[Ayushm]

Update?