Another badly cracked E46 M3 boot floor ,subframe repair

[Valdelisbmw]

One more E46 M3 with cracked boot floor ,this time its bit more as usual :wink: ill do separate thread about this one,as looks it will be much more work involved in this one .The owner just bought the car,brought it in for service and all these bad things was investigated straight away .So here we start ,car was fully stripped out today and all sealants cleaned off to check for all cracks .All 4 sub frame fitting points are cracked ,both front and both rear ,and even more :surprised: the pictures will do some judge .first pictures are without any clean up,later ones will show all cracks,rust signs means how long ago this happened .

[Valdelisbmw]

Cleaned out for closer investigation

[Gar]

Its an absolute disgrace that this is happening should be fixed by bmw free of charge and regardless of age

major design flaw cars should not tear themselves in half

[Steve320]

That looks really bad !!!!! Was it standard suspension?


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[Valdelisbmw]

of course it could be much worse ,and suspension set up dont make sense really

[Chrispyfish]

Dear god! At least its been looked after now but as Gar said BMW should be standing over these regardless.

Looks like it was repaired poorly before?

[Valdelisbmw]

Dear god! At least its been looked after now but as Gar said BMW should be standing over these regardless.

Looks like it was repaired poorly before?

No,it wasnt repaired at all

[DoktorB]

Its an absolute disgrace that this is happening should be fixed by bmw free of charge and regardless of age

major design flaw cars should not tear themselves in half

Its no more unacceptable than E36's rotting from the inside out.

If it was happening on low mileage youngs cars then it would be seen as a design problem.

This long into the cars life, BMW couldnt care one jot.

I would be interested to know if this was a worldwide issue or something confined to the crappy roads of the UK and Ireland.

[JohnC]

Bloody hell!

Insane

[Gar]

Its an absolute disgrace that this is happening should be fixed by bmw free of charge and regardless of age

major design flaw cars should not tear themselves in half

Its no more unacceptable than E36's rotting from the inside out.

If it was happening on low mileage youngs cars then it would be seen as a design problem.

This long into the cars life, BMW couldnt care one jot.

I would be interested to know if this was a worldwide issue or something confined to the crappy roads of the UK and Ireland.

It does happen on low mileage cars and the corrosion warranty is ten years on the paint from cars 2003 and up this clearly falls under corrision yet people had to fight to get it done (if they got it done) theres no excuse for it other then shabby workmanship it was poorly made id hate to see what would happen if this was just ignored

Big difference between a rusty arch and a car splitting in two john

I found the e36 to be great with regard to rust mine was 99% rust free it was an irish car though

Common in the u.s so worldwide id say