Rear coils how to

[MUSHVROOM3]

Hey, i noticed there's no how to for rear coils and I searched and came across krystms' garage tread for i believe a first gen m3 rear coils. My question is, would that be pretty much the same for 2nd gen m3?
I'm planning on getting springs installed in the spring.

thanks

[Neggert]

yep should be exactly the same.

[Frnchplayr15]

First gens have pretty much the same hardware it's basically all located in the same place just a few differences

[MUSHVROOM3]

good, that would be much help

[MUSHVROOM3]

just curious if you can unbolt and do both coils at same time or just one

[dunston]

Rear coils just come out, no unbolting.

[CorkSport - Chris]

Originally Posted by dunston

Rear coils just come out, no unbolting.

What do you mean by no unbolting?

You need to unbolt the control arm to free the spring.

The easy way to do it is to unbolt the sway bar endlinks on both sides from the car leaving them bolted to the sway bar.

Then jack up under the control are and unbolt the 17mm bolt then lower the control arm down, you will want to leave the jack under the control arm about .5in then you stick a pry bar under the control arm and the brake where you just removed the 17mm bolt and pry it up and it will pop out. The jack under it will keep it from springing all the way down and causing your body some possible damage.

[dunston]

I was thinking that the OP was asking if the springs were bolted in place.

[MUSHVROOM3]

Originally Posted by dunston

I was thinking that the OP was asking if the springs were bolted in place.

Thanks for the info. I guess what I was trying to asked is whether can I remove both sb endlinks and the ca bolts to remove both coils. or can you only do one side at a time.