For what it's worth, when this happened to me, the flange on the output shaft of transmission wore along with the bolt. The hole elongated and enlarged a fair amount. I talked it over with a friend of mine who had worked as an engineer, inventor, engine builder, mechanic and garage owner.

'New nut and bolt, and make them tight'

This is because a properly torqued non interference joint is effective because of the friction at the clamped faces, and not by interaction of the fastener with the bores of the respective holes.

I looked for a while for a new output flange but moved on to other things. This fix outlasted the original motor and body of the 240D, probably 10-20k miles.

Seen before on PP.

Driveline Uh-oh

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have an accident

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