*Click click* won't go away

Trev24

Member
Good day fellow BMW lovers :praise:

I have an e36 325. It runs extremely well and it's surprisingly not very troublesome for a 21 year old car. I've just replaced the usual wear and tear items over time but now there seems to be a problem that just doesn't want to go away..

The seems to be a sort of clicking noise, like metal on metal, everytime I accelerate. It's coming from the back of the car and it's rather loud and irritating. It's not there when I change gears or roll the car. It just clicks when there's a chance in acceleration. It clicks once and then it's fine until I leave the gas and accelerate again. Then it'll click again because of change in acceleration and it's fine... The click is rather loud as you can hear it if you standing outside the car..

I've done research and a few repairs and all possible reasons are not the cause.. I replaced u joints, I checked up cvs and they're good, and I checked the diff oil it's full... I'm not sure whether it can be a backlash on the diff because If it was, then the car would click even if I just leave the clutch because the diff will be forced to spin, but it doesn't click when I do that..

The good thing is that it's not affecting the performance of the car or anything else. It's just making an irritating noise which is coming from the back, more or less under the back seat section of the car.

Anyone knows what could be the problem? Or have any advice for me?

Your help will truly be appreciated
 

Trev24

Member
I need to check. I think I'll put the car on a hoist or put two jack stands in the back and drive the car to see where the noise is coming from...

Thing is I took 3 people in my car the other day and the noise seemed to minimise to almost completely gone.. So I've noticed with weight in the car it's sort of solving the problem
 

Solo Man

Well-known member
The E46's are prone to having cracks in the rear subframe holding the suspension around the diff area. Have not heard of E36's with this problem but just check if that is not your problem.
 
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