Dropped it off this morning should have it back in a day or two. I talked to Tim at KCAS and he told me the valve is a real pain to get to, so I am just having them do the whole thing. VC, OW seperator valve, all of it, as well as an oil change. I am thinking the whole thing will be about 7 hundred, which sucks but it has to be fixed. I look at the bright side and am glad it was not a head.

Tim did tell me that the factory oil change intervals are part of the problem. The VANOS requires the use of synthetic but the factory interval is like 15k miles or more. While he has mine apart he will be able to tell if they oil has been changed more often. It will be much cleaner if the oil has been changed more often but I fear the car has only been serviced at the prescribed intervals. The more often the better, more like 5k miles just for the cleaning advantage. I used to drive a lot, 50k+ a year and ran synthetic for 10K miles at a shot but changed the filter at 5k againg for the cleaning. On most of my other vehicles get changes at 3k no matter the 'specified' interval. The changes are easy to do so from now on mine will get them more often. At least it was 37 today and not 5. Cheers Richard.