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Does this look like bad motor mounts?

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Old 08-22-2023, 11:16 AM
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Does this look like bad motor mounts?

Made a video below. Car is in drive while I hold on the brakes and rev the engine a few times. I see some movement but wasn't sure if this was within tolerance or "you gotta change those".

https://youtu.be/qqbJETRnqoA
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Not much movement to complain about but I do hear a screech = may the fan hitting ??
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looks good to me. did u do it in reverse too, to check the other mount?
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Originally Posted by Sunnyslope48
Not much movement to complain about but I do hear a screech = may the fan hitting ??
Those are my tires squeaking!
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Originally Posted by Chevota
looks good to me. did u do it in reverse too, to check the other mount?
I have to do that next, forgot that step.

I don't have any symptoms of bad mounts but my car has 100k do i wanted to check. They may have been done in the past or are still holding up.
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When you eventually replaced the engine mount and 100K miles is guaranteed it has sunken........... you use that as a reference to how smooth the engine vibration is into the car.
No need to do rev+in-gear, simply by touching your steering wheel at idle you can tell a very good mount to a slowly aging mount, let alone an aged mount.
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It actually seems very tight, so I wonder if maybe it has aftermarket mounts?
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Off idle vibration is the best measurement of motor mount condition.
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Off idle vibration is the best measurement of motor mount condition.
Yeah none of that, no symptoms at all. Just wanted to be extra precarious since I just did the tune & UPD air box. Thing pulls soooooo much harder now its insane, don't want my engine bopping around lol
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Originally Posted by tkelley.EClass
Yeah none of that, no symptoms at all. Just wanted to be extra precarious since I just did the tune & UPD air box. Thing pulls soooooo much harder now its insane, don't want my engine bopping around lol
Now it will, the question is when.
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Now it will, the question is when.
Haha, yeah been reading about people swapping them multiple times from driving aggressively, never mind doing it once at 100k!

Probably going to do those black series mounts soon. I'm already a few grand into the car, might as well keep going. Maybe an upgraded suspension as my last big project then just drive the ***** out of it.

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