the ball joints are a week old (lemforder parts) - I think I 'll have to mount the spindle on a chuck to see if its bent out of shape, We checked the arm bushings with a tool that is usually used on old GM and Ford cars its a claw shaped thing It pulls the arm and verfiies bushing flex - there was zilch flex (these MB bushings may look tired from outside but they are solid even after nearing 2 decades)

anyway - Im more leaning towards on the strut mount being fatigued as its very common practice to use camber plates on cars that do not allow adjustment like ours.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)