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)......:thumbs:

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

[Alx007]

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 :clown: . 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 :-D.

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.

[benfj180]

47900 miles

Totally standard

Never tracked

No cracks, inspected in April/May 2013

:supz:

no. 133

[CraigMillwardCroft]

21,000 miles
Tracked regular
AP's
KW's
Cavity foam by Giraffe April 2013
No cracks

[cslgirl]

:smokin: :-D

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?

Good idea CSLgirl. Sometimes women are brilliant and come up with fabulous ideas :clown: . 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 :-D.

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: https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/c...bframe-stories

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

Pip

[benfj180]

47900 miles

Totally standard

Never tracked

No cracks, inspected in April/May 2013

:supz:

no. 133

build number added............this should be interesting!

Is there a way of showing the results via a chart/graph?

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Still cannot remember my number or work it out :banghead: But Neil M will know it

[Mike RT4]

55k
APs
H&R suspension
Supersprint full system from manifold back
Tracked fairly regularly throughout its life with Billy's Dad and then a couple of times with it's last owner and then two track days by me and a 'ring trip, which finally showed signs of cracks in Sept last year.

Subframe replaced under warranty by Elms in November 2013.

[monkeycsl]

35k turner limiter kit, supersprint backbox,braided lines and 2 trips to the ring on half day Snetterton one day Donnington and no cracks found yet and my m3 has done 77k with coilovers bbk back box braided lines solid rear trailing arm bushes and no cracks on her either.:beer:

[cslgirl]

When all the details are down, I will use my secretarial skillz and create some sort of chart thingy :thumbs:

QUOTE=benfj180;161033]build number added............this should be interesting!

Is there a way of showing the results via a chart/graph?[/QUOTE]