rear shocks

[nadroj]

my rear shocks are going bad on my 98 m3 if i replace them with some blistin sport shocks should i replace the springs also or is that unnessasary, speaking from a matnence stand point not profromance. Thanks

 

[wood_e]

replace the springs... if you don't and the spprings get saggy you probably don't want to repalce them later since while doing the shocks you'll already be in there. Might as well get them done.

 

[Big Daddy]

How many miles are on the car? Are these the stock M3 springs?

 

[B M W]

Your springs should be perfectly fine.

If you are going to DIY have fun. It'd a pain in the butt to take out the rear seats to do the rear shocks!

 

[nadroj]

How many miles are on the car? Are these the stock M3 springs?

it has 72xxx im almost positive that they are stock springs

 

[Big Daddy]

They should be fine, replace the shocks and that should suffice, springs should last well beyond 150k. My 733i had factory springs that lasted well beyond 250k, granted I did replace the shocks once in that time!

 

[nadroj]

Thanks alot i didnt want to replace more than i needed to, and i dont really wanta lower the m3 more :X it scares me anyways its so low

 

[nadroj]

also it leans a lil to the left, it hardly noticable unless you really look at it for a while, could that be a sagging spring or have somthing to do with the bad shocks, OR somthing worse :X..