Edited my post just to clarify where I found the failed spot-welds.
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Originally posted by sonu_anand View PostThanks Dave. So really a competent mechanic should pick this up on service / MOT?
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Hi Dave, the Dinan kit was their product to reduce the "rear steer" and improve the handling of the E36-7/8 chassis, and was developed long before anyone started seeing the separation of the panels (broken spot welds). One guy on Bimmerforums some years back called Dinan__he lived in Mountain View, California, essentially "right around the corner" from them__to get their reinforcement kit, and the guy told him to "save your money and call Randy Forbes..."
In other words, Dinan's product wasn't going to repair the damage his car had already developed. Applied to a new/undamaged chassis, it's entirely possible that the Dinan support could have minimized the excess movement of the suspension carrier (aka "subframe") to have prevented the level of damage we've been seeing for the last couple of decades, but it's not going to help put a damaged car back together.
I'm talking with one of your countrymen at the moment, in hopes that he'll hand-carry an extra kit or two back to the UK on his trips to the states, potentially saving some owners the cost of international shipping..
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Originally posted by Randy Forbes View PostHi Dave, the Dinan kit was their product to reduce the "rear steer" and improve the handling of the E36-7/8 chassis, and was developed long before anyone started seeing the separation of the panels (broken spot welds). One guy on Bimmerforums some years back called Dinan__he lived in Mountain View, California, essentially "right around the corner" from them__to get their reinforcement kit, and the guy told him to "save your money and call Randy Forbes..."
In other words, Dinan's product wasn't going to repair the damage his car had already developed. Applied to a new/undamaged chassis, it's entirely possible that the Dinan support could have minimized the excess movement of the suspension carrier (aka "subframe") to have prevented the level of damage we've been seeing for the last couple of decades, but it's not going to help put a damaged car back together.
I'm talking with one of your countrymen at the moment, in hopes that he'll hand-carry an extra kit or two back to the UK on his trips to the states, potentially saving some owners the cost of international shipping..
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Originally posted by Dave P View Post
I had never seen the Dinan part before and interesting to see a different take on handling upgrades, I am a fan of the Dinan products but they appear to get a bad press on the US forums.
I guess it never occurred to me how Dinan might be marketed abroad, given how you guys have AC Schnitzer & Hamann on your side of the pond.
My wife's daily driver is a 2016 X5M that the 1st owner (we're second, via BMW's CPO program) loaded it out with Dinan's full Signature Series STG-II equipment (CAI, exhaust, piggy-back ECU & front lowering springs). She's justifiably proud of the fact__as am I__that SHE spotted the listing and "picked it out" (the fact that it is now rated at 716 hp/705 Lbs-Ft torque is the icing on the cake).
You'll never hear me trash-talk Dinan ;)
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