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Post Thu May 07, 2020 3:48 pm

Afternoon, Ive just come across this article online while searching for something else, and I've never seen this on my car

https://bimmertips.com/sloppy-e30-steering-fix/

Is this for left hand drive cars only?
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Post Thu May 07, 2020 6:41 pm

Very new to me but "Brian" have the answer 8O 8O

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Post Thu May 07, 2020 6:45 pm

Steering linkage is very different on LH drive cars. Nothing like that on any RH drive car that I've seen.
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Post Thu May 07, 2020 9:34 pm

Nothing like that on my lhd e30
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Post Thu May 07, 2020 10:03 pm

Nope, not on mine either.
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Post Thu May 07, 2020 10:54 pm

I've got a LHD E30 but with manual rack and steering is drum tight so can't say I've ever experienced any steering issues.

However I've read elsewhere that E34's suffer from similar problems
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Post Thu May 07, 2020 11:31 pm

Something to do with the safety requirements in a crash for certain markets?
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Post Fri May 08, 2020 9:21 am

Thats an american mongrel, they had airbags on a lot of cars which had a different column, the column shown is very similar to the usual E34 type that is adjustable in length