Originally Posted by Freestyler

Johnny 5
I can recall my own frustration about this back when i started this thread.
But given that BMW's official solution to this issue is to replace the entire oil pump at a ridiculous price AND that the general opinion of whether to fix this or not seems to be "not", i chose the latter.
Now, almost 7 years later i still haven't had any issues with ticking or oil starvation at start up.
So my advice would be to toss the parts into your "things-that-spontaneously-fell-out-of-my-engine -drawer" and not worry more about that.





This one was fun.
I haven't seen LVP's post before today. But the metal sleeve-looking thing in his picture looked suspiciously like something i found on the garage floor after another oil change several years ago.
A quick look in my own "things-that-spontaneously-fell-out-of-my-engine -drawer" confirmed that.


Until today i had no idea that it also was part of the oil check valve. I thought it came from somewhere else in the engine compartment and had rolled off of the bottom plastic cover when i removed that.
Another mystery is solved.