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      12-23-2018, 11:37 PM   #8
juld0zer
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Drives: Prev 135i 7DCT, Now 130i 6sp
Join Date: Jul 2016
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Your diff is rooted. A bearing/the bearings have failed, causing the differential to float around in the housing. It sounds like a flat tyre and howls above 50kmh.

Get the car onto a hoist or securely raise the rear on stands and chock the front, get the rears spinning up to the noisy speed and have a look at the pinion (input) and output flanges. The last one i dealt with had failed carrier bearings and it also had oil leaking from one of the output seals. The output flange oscillated.
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