X5 4.4 - Sludge in engine and oil filter housing... help!

[sunny5280]

Originally Posted by JCL

It is the other way around, you have it reversed. The fluid flush tends to cause the valve body becoming clogged. It isn't common for a valve body to fail for other reasons, but I am sure it could happen.

No, I don't have it the other way around. You just said the VB tends to fail because it becomes clogged. Assuming the fluid wasn't flushed, and there's no reason to think it had, do you feel flushing the fluid would have prevented the failure? Seems reasonble to me the flush would have removed the contaminant and possibly saved me a lot of money.

Please don't keep assigning beliefs to me that you have erroneously formulated from various comments.

I'll keep this in mind should it ever happen.