2006 4.4i startup issue

[iturregui]

Hello guys,

I'm having an issue with my new to me 2006 X5 4.4i. Whenever the engine is cold it has some kind of miss or sputter during the initial startup. If you turn it off and back on again there is no miss whatsoever. It doesn't have to be cold outside (actually here in the tropic it's never cold outside). It just needs to be sitting overnight and even if it's 90 degrees outside it will still do it.

I bought the vehicle on February of this year, with about 40K kms (25K miles) and have no complaints about it other than this annoying issue. It drives perfect, no noises, nothing.

I installed a stage 2 Afe intake thinking that it might be related to some kind of leak in the stock one. But it did not solve the problem.

Here is a little youtube video of the issue happening:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9LzmGjDcXw

I hope this is not an early sign of the intermediate levers problem.

Any comments are highly appreciated.

Regards