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Originally Posted by crystalworks
Rebuilding a vanos at intervals was an m54, m52, and other older style vanos systems I believe. New vanos is solenoids coupled with valvetronic (again, I believe). I have never heard of rebuilding the vanos on any of the more modern BMW engines.
20k is a lot of miles. Annually I can understand, but 20k is longer than BMW's old 15k intervals and they (their customers) ran into all kinds of problems doing that. Sludge, wear, etc.
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Good to know about the VANOS being less likely to need a rebuild these days.
The wife averages around 8K miles a year now, so if I'm changing annually, it's normally around 8K on this vehicle. It's at 11K now just b/c life has put me behind the curve a bit. I'm working now to restore my universe to its proper order.