E46 & Uneven Ride Height

[droptheclutch]

Hi All

My wife’s 330 Sport Touring is leaning to one side by approx 10mm, perhaps a little more. She has taken the car into a local dealership and was told that that the 'sag' is within the tolerance limits.

I called them and spoke with the Customer Services Manager as I thought this was very odd (the rear springs have been changed under warranty & I thought the same thing was happening again)
he told me that the E46 series has different ride height on the back right in comparison to the back left! This is how they leave the factory! Is this true??

If you stand behind the car you can see it leaning! Surely this is not right.

Any/all comments greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

DTC

[MitchT]

I think BMW's main dealer service departments have two official classifications for this fault...

1: For cars under warranty: 'Within Tolerances'.
2: For warranty-expired cars: 'MOT failure'.

Oh, and ask the service manager to let you smell his poo... I believe this month's scent is vanilla!

[m3evo2]

no its not, ive not seen an e46 like that. why would they change them umder warranty if they were meant to be like it?

Edited by m3evo2 on Tuesday 23 January 19:22

[ccfj1]

I think your dealer if full of it, on my old saloon, I had a ride hight diff on one side, it was one of the rear springs, in the 4 years I owned the car, it had 3 sets of rear springs in it.

[DanH]

For my car the rear ride height tolerances are -20 mm to +40mm. One corner is 10mm higher on my car and whilst I don't like it, I don't see what I can do really as its within their ENORMOUS tolerances.