Subframe Poll

[cslgirl]

I am curious and thought this may be an idea - to list whether your subframe is cracked - and if so, whether your car has been tracked/modified, the mileage etc. We may be able to see a pattern (or not)......

I will start - Our csl has been tracked once, totally standard except for a gruppe m, 35k and has no cracks (recently checked by my m-tech who has looked after our csl for 9 years). As long as it's not cracked then I am not having any prevention work done. If it does show any cracks in the future, then will go from there.

ETA - may be a good idea to put your csl number down too in case it was something do with with a run of them?

CSL Number 47

[petery]

76k miles, standard and no track work until 44k then only AP brakes added.
Now done 2 trips to the ring 2 days at Spa and half day at Donington.


Just checked and no cracks and no prevention work done

[Alx]

Hi,

Good idea!

Here is mine:

- 60'000 km
- LHD
- 100% stock
- No track
- No cracks
- No preventive work done

I'm not sure about the number on mine (246 ?), but it was produced on July, 10 2003.

Kind regards,
Alex

[LeinsCSL]

- 56k miles
- Some track time by previous owner
- Car standard
- No cracks found when preventative work completed summer 2013

[Pip1968]

Good idea CSLgirl. Sometimes women are brilliant and come up with fabulous ideas . It might put to bed some of the scaremongerers and of course help to maintain prices of non repaired ones if they are put up for sale .

1. 36,500 miles
2. Track work
3. No cracks
4. No preventative work

Pip

[Heisenburg]

Good idea. Here's mine;

CSL # 416

- 34k miles
- standard-ish
- tracked twice by previous owner
- no cracks (Oct '13)
- no preventive

Also, if this helps, my stock m3 cracked at 71k miles, totally standard, don't believe it had ever been tracked. Repaired Nov '12.

[cslgirl]

Just edited the first post, but may be a good idea too to put your CSL number down in case it was a "batch" of them that had the problem?

Originally Posted by Pip1968

Good idea CSLgirl. Sometimes women are brilliant and come up with fabulous ideas . It might put to bed some of the scaremongerers and of course help to maintain prices of non repaired ones if they are put up for sale .

1. 36,500 miles
2. Track work
3. No cracks
4. No preventative work

Pip

[Pip1968]

Looking at these posts it looks as though not having it repaired may be neither here nor there anyway: http://www.cslregister.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11428

I only read all those posts after the poll. Still it will be interesting to see how the poll goes - repair/ 'preventative' / none.

Pip

[73CSL]

CSL No 43

1. 63000 miles
2. All stock
3. repair to cracked rear subframe, 15/6/12 by BMW High Wycombe

[s.mac]

New boot floor replaced early 2013. 48,000 ish.

Tank slappers old car, plenty of ring laps
A few track days in my ownership, none since replacement.

Repaired with AP's, rtab limiter kit, AST suspension and titanium exhaust on

The crack was only a few mm but still one had appeared so it needed sorting.