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Ron Stygar Carl Buckland Dale Beuning Forums Help
From digest.v5.n458 Sat Oct 26 15:47:36 1996 Hi Folks, After 6600 miles, my 96 M3 Lux developed a squeak somewhere near the rear shelf/seat area. An earlier post mentioned that some E36's had a vibration of the brake light clamp/housing on the shelf. Mine was coming from the edges (passenger side) of the folding rear seat near the latching mechanism. Its the vertical edge which can begin to wear away the 'mouse-fur' on the short, sloping forward edge of the rear shelf. If you have the squeak, first lower the folding rear seats and see if you have wear marks on the 'mouse-fur' (phony velour-like material). I put some adhesive foam strips (black quarter-inch) along the vertical ridges of the rear seat. Hopefully, they will survive multiple lowering/raisings of the rear seats. The squeak is now gone! BTW, i tried a thin application of silicon lubricant on the vinyl edge, as well as vinyl cleaner- to no avail. FYI The E36 coupe can fit a 10-foot length of PVC rain gutter- with the passenger seat lowered, the 'pipe' fits & allows the trunk to be closed. The relevance of this tidbit is thats how i discovered my squeak was seat-position-dependent.
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