wrote:
> My 540 tourer has done 54K miles and I have noticed rattles in the
> doors etc. My 535 had done 130K miles but it wasn't a tourer and it
> rattled less than this car. What is a ball park mileage figure for
> replacing shock absorbers on a 6 year old 540?
> pete
> --

Door rattles have very little to do with bad shock absorbers. Shocks do
not get replaced based on mileage since it depends heavily on the
quality of the roads the miles are covered over. They are replaced on
failure.

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-Fred W