Hi all,

My X5 started to develop this intermittent knocking specifically when engine is hot, while idling, and with transmission on Drive, and when turning the steering wheel. It will knock for one to three second when I steer left or right under the previously mentioned conditions. When I try to recreate the knock, I sometimes have to do a left-right-left or any combination of steering to get a knock and sometimes it can happen on the first turn. As I said, it's about a second to three seconds of engine knock. I was once able to sustain the knock a bit longer by holding the position of the steering wheel once the knock happened. No knocking when running, accelerating, normal idling (no movement of steering) etc. In fact, the car runs great as I only have 56k miles on the clock, I do have a 'smoking after idling in traffic' issue which seems to be a valve cover gasket issue (based on my research in this forum; specifically McDonalD's thread). I've been searching the forum but can't seem to find a fix.

In addition, no issues when engine is cold, doesn't knock on startup.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Philp

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