accessories » BMW Rear Side case mounting rack bolt torque?

While installing new LED tailights, I removed the luggage rack for the BMW side cases.

Turns out, I did not need to do that... oh well :-(.

Now that the new lights are installed, I am ready to install the luggage rack. Unfortunately, I cannot find any torque values for these specific bolts on the internet.

The bolts are 8mmx1.25- 8.8 grade. Using the internet, I see values ranging from 19 - 40 NM.

If anyone has the installation instructions for these racks and can share the listed toque value - that would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Bill

Looked it up- Frame/luggage rack 8mm bolts: 19Nm of 13.5 ftlbs.
The good sense tighten method per GG works just fine also. A drop of Loctite blue or purple won't hurt either.

Frank

GG - Understood - had pretty much done that and the gap (about 1/16 to the rear) was still present. After looking at how the bracket is made, no amount of torque is going to close the gap. Too much reinforcement at the bend.

Frank - where were you able to find that spec? My older version of the BMW RepRom did not have it (or I could not see it... probable)

Regards,
Bill

Indeed 19 Nm is listed in our Haynes manual too for pannier/grab rails.

As above, that’s simply “quite tight”. But not “Very Tight”.

Not even a “little grunt”.

Not Mission Critical like some bolts, so go practice your “feel” for the bolt. You’ll not break an 8mm one.

Coincidentally, 19 Nm is used for the front axle pinch bolts IIRC. Into alloy, so that ain’t very tight.

19Nm is roughly equal to .5 Ugah Dugah