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      04-24-2014, 01:59 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by cadman50 View Post
Recommended torque is 120Nm = 88.5lbs/ft...

I just called 2 dealers. one said that 100 ft-lbs is too tight. the other said it was perfectly acceptable and that you'd have to tighten them a lot more to strip the threads. So the previous suggestion that 80-100 ft-lbs seems reasonable. If I was doing it myself I would have used 90. But since the tire dealer I purchased my snow tires from changed them over to summers with 100 ft-lbs I'm not overly concerned now. But I will tell them only to torque to 90 next time.

Call the dealers back and tell them to ask the workshop to look it up in ISTA (The official BMW workshop system)

The below capture is directly from ISTA, its 140NM for all M14 wheel bolt cars, which are just about all the modern BMW models


They are endangering lives by quoting M12 torques for M14 equipped cars.
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