OMFG! Help! Theres a broken bolt in my driveway!

[Hortos]

Ok, what on a 325iC could use a 19mm or bigger bolt? I'm thinking it may be a driveshaft bolt or maybe one of my subframe bolts I haven't gotten under the car to start looking for the missing piece yet... This sucks.

[Jordan]

Post a picture of the bolt, I will tell you where it came from.

Far too many 19mm bolts on a e30 to make a random guess.

[Hortos]

Ok here we go

Ok I'm leaning towards Subframe but heres a bunch of ugly pictures because my CLIE is getting old

Cut and Paste the links because this cheapo freebie webhost I found an hour ago sucks.

http://hortos.freewebpage.org/1.JPG

http://hortos.freewebpage.org/2.JPG

http://hortos.freewebpage.org/3.JPG

http://hortos.freewebpage.org/4.JPG

http://hortos.freewebpage.org/5.JPG

[Fuggly Stick]

pics are not working for me

[Jordan]

I don't know of anyplace on a e30 that uses a red x

[rs4pro3]

Driveshaft is 17mm, so I doubt it's that

[Erick]

copy/paste the link and it works.

I have no clue where it's from tho.... looks like a wheel lug from the last couple of pics, but what would I knwo.....

[Hortos]

I checked under the car, its not from anything obvious all the subframe bolts are in the control arms are on its not one of the steering rack bolts but it does look like a larger version. The bolt has the six dash pattern on the top. This is starting to worry me because this bolt is about as thick as my pinky and it looks like it just snapped. If nobody can guess the mystery 19mm bolt I'm going to have to pull the car out tomorrow morning and go over the damn thing slowly...

[Jordan]

Copy and paste does work..

I cant tell what it is from those pictures. They look like they were taken with a 10 year old webcam.

How about a real picture?

[DaN]

Why not just look over the car and find out for yourself?
It's kind of hard to guess....

[mentaleeill]

diff. mounting bolt?? i'm pretty sure they're 19mm.

[windsor318is]

dont worry be happy, just through it out stuff like this will drive you nuts :D

[Beej '86 325es]

Well, I just tore apart every pice of the rear drivetrain and suspension this weekend, and the only thing it would resemble in the rear is the lower shock mount bolt or the diff mount bolt like mentaleeill said.

[franz]

caliper carrier bolt?

[Beej '86 325es]

caliper carrier bolt?

Possibly up front, the rear is 17 mm.