BMW X3 Front Driver & Passenger Side 2 Piece Control Arm Set TRQ PSA62812

You want to keep in mind when you're doing this job after you're done, you're going to want to go to a local garage and have the vehicle aligned so you don't have premature tire wear. I'm gonna take the wheel off. Use a 17-millimeter socket. Take these lug studs off. So, I'm going to hold the wheel on, take that stud off, and then grab the wheel. Take it off. We're going to take the shield off. There's all these screws all over along here. They're 8-millimeter. There should be one there, one there, and then the same on the other side. Use an 8-millimeter socket to take all these out. All right. And then just pull this down, slide it back. Take these two out as well. Slide this panel out of the way, just like that. Be careful with the wire for the ambient air temp sensor. If you have to, you can disconnect it, and we want to get that nut off right there, that bolt. I'm gonna use a 10-millimeter socket. The point of taking this panel off is just to gain access to this bolt. So, if you wanted to, you could just leave that in that location, or you can take this nut off over here. Just use a 10-millimeter socket and just slide it out of the way. It gives you a little bit more room. I'm going to take this nut off right here. Use a 22-millimeter socket. Just to prevent this from popping off, I'm just going to put the nut back on just a couple threads.

I'm going to put a 21-millimeter wrench on the nut side, right there. Use a 21-millimeter socket over here. Take the bolt out, bolt up. Now, you could try to use a pickle fork if you have one that's small enough, you just have to be careful not to hit the other ball joint, or I can just take a hammer and give it a tap. And get it separate from ball joint. You can take the nut back off, pull the arm right off. All right. Take this control arm. Take the bolt. I'm gonna slide that in position right there. Just like that. In that, get that started. All right. Holding this up. You can take a 6-millimeter hex bit. Just move the stud around a little bit. Oops. And get the nut on. Get that started. Use the 22-millimeter wrench. Tighten the nut up. If the stud starts spinning, you can use that 6-millimeter hex bit to hold the stud from spinning. All right. Make sure that's good and tight. All right, I'm going to put a pull jack underneath the suspension to raise it up so that it's at ride level so that I can torque these bolts. I'm going to use a wrench on the inside, torque this bolt to 74 foot-pounds, and then I'm going to go an additional 90 degrees. So, if you have a torque angle meter and you can get it up in there, then do that. If not, just do the best you can.

All right. That's 90 degrees. Now, I can lower the screw jack. All right. Take this panel. Slide this in position. I'm going to slide it over the stud right here and then take this plastic nut, get that started. That goes right there. And then this bolt, goes right there. All right. Now, I'll tighten this up. And gently tighten this nut up. It is plastic so be careful. That good. Line this up. If that ambient air sensor popped out, pop that back in. Good. And get these bolts started. Tighten those up. Now, reinstall this panel just to get it lined up. That's good. Take all the bolts. I'll get those all started first. Now, I'll just go around and tighten them all down. Take the wheel, put the wheel back on. Get the lug stud. Now, I'm just going to torque these lug bolts to 110 foot-pounds. I'm going to do it in a star pattern so that it tightens the wheel down evenly. And then just go around again, double-check.