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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DannyZ" data-source="post: 1424210" data-attributes="member: 22078">Yep, I'm going to take a look at the mounting hardware and see if I can reuse any of it, otherwise I'm going to order some new clips. The side skirts came off when my friend went off-roading with it on a dry lake bed.In the meantime I've been replacing some wheel studs... the cheap $20 eBay spacers that my friend bought decided to break. I'm really thankful that I made it from LA to Phoenix without them breaking. I noticed a loud squeaking noise when getting gas the other day, and I didn't think much of it, reasoning that it was a bad wheel bearing or something. Then I saw the rear left wheel was sitting pretty crooked so I checked it out and saw that it was super loose. I limped the car home slowly and once I got home I took off the wheel and a broken stud + nut fell out.<img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4159/34234233732_839a32243d_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />That was the stud from the spacer, so I removed the spacer and found that it also broke one of the car's studs too:<img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2857/34351425336_ca0097b155_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I figured out why the spacer had issues, aside from it being cheap garbage— it wasn't hub centric so it probably allowed additional vibrations that ended up loosening all the lug nuts and let everything wobble around at 80+ mph on the trip to and from LA. So the next spacers I buy will be proper name-brand, hub-centric spacers, because I really did like the way the inch-wide spacers made the rear end look.The other day I went and bought a bunch of studs and extra lug nuts (for some reason all of the wheels only had 4 lug nuts). Super cheap at Autozone so that was pretty rad (I'm used to $$$$ for BMW parts).Got the rear caliper and rotor off so I could get better access to the studs:<img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4191/34008492950_06fbb408d9_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />After a bunch of PB Blaster, drilling, and swearing, I finally got that troublesome stud out:<img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4188/34008493280_ba6694e7ca_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The new stud had some clearance issues because of the ABS/speed sensor gear, so I used an angle grinder on the new stud to create some more clearance. That worked like a charm and the new stud slipped right in with no issues. Much easier than removing the whole axle to create the necessary clearance otherwise.Now the other issue I ran into is totally my fault— when removing the parking brake cable, I foolishly removed that circular spring, so that's where I'm at now, trying to reinstall the damn spring. I spent like an hour trying to wrangle that spring with vice grips and pliers, but at 1am I still had no luck so I called it a night. I did some reading today and it seems like people have had luck with using a vice and strong zip ties— I have both so I'm going to try that tonight. Wish me luck!</blockquote>