Wheel hop

[bigjae46]

Axle CV? I've pulled apart almost a dozen axles. Everyone had liquified grease in it. IMO, almost every E46 is due at least a cleaning, inspection, and repack of the CVs. Probably should replace the boots too.

I'd try to see if the CV is binding and then carefully inspect the ball bearings in the CV and look for flat spots or pitting.

[Casa de Mesa]

I have a wheel hop issue that I've been ignoring / changing my driving patterns to not encounter it. I *believe* it's from the right rear.

Could it be from a bad or slowly going rear shock? Or a shock that's mismatched to the suspension? Some time ago, I replaced one of the rear shocks (it was leaking) with the same model shock but wondering if the damping characteristics are different between the original and replacement.

I saw in THIS post, cobra solved this (or at least isolated the cause of) by reducing rebound:

My wheel hop was caused by too much rebound damping on the shocks, causing them to pack and then alternate between grip and losing grip.

I'm running BC Racing. It came with my car and when setup correctly, it is adequate. A full re-do to something a littler higher end has been on the docket for a while now. This might finally push me to do so (getting tired of not being able to hang the ass end out when I want), but I wanted to see if there could be other causes and solutions to wheel hop anyone has come up with.

I thought for sure it was bad bushings somewhere in the rear axle or suspension, but I've rebuilt and replaced every single bushing at every single point in the rear suspension and driveline.