Creaking door - United Bimmer Community

**Boxer19** · 05-25-2007, 06:31 AM

Does anyone have a creaking driver side door? Now that the weather is getting hot it is creaking....mainly when opening. It appears to be the flat bar that goes inside the door. I tried silicone, fluid film, even wd40. It is not the hinges. I have an E39 525i '01.

**c1apton** · 05-25-2007, 08:57 AM

try a grease on the actual bar - there's also a bulletin out about the E34s' support (bar) that a weld on the inside can break & it needs to be re-welded by a body shop.

**xsperf** · 05-25-2007, 10:43 AM

this happened on my brother's e46, he just sprayed a ton of wd40 on all the hinges and joints and it isnt doing it anymore

**Boxer19** · 05-28-2007, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by xsperf

this happened on my brother's e46, he just sprayed a ton of wd40 on all the hinges and joints and it isnt doing it anymore

Thanks guys, I used multi purpose grease (wheel bearing grease) and the problem was cured.

**mullethunter3** · 05-28-2007, 12:43 PM

And if you don't like the color of white grease on your pretty black car, use synthetic grease, most of the times it's black.

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**maximk2** · 06-03-2007, 10:50 PM

yea i actually had the same problem on my e36, and just a bit of castrol did the trick.

**Dudesky** · 06-04-2007, 04:39 AM

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It automatically changes to that between 990 and 1000 posts, then it'll change to 'I live here'. But you can now change it to whatever you like on the User CP.