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richardb

10-05-2016 09:58 PM

M54 Idle Control Valve Removal and Cleaning

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPV-XnmJyk

Ricky Bobby

10-06-2016 10:15 AM

Great videos as always richard - the positive is your videos are always very thorough - the negative is that you always remind me to go and DIY a repair :)

richardb

10-06-2016 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby (Post 1089761)

Great videos as always richard - the positive is your videos are always very thorough - the negative is that you always remind me to go and DIY a repair :)

Ricky, thank you. Yes, we are all blessed with the never-ending BMW maintenance!

O3X5	10-06-2016 08:53 PM

Might as well add to this to the weekend list. Great video

richardb

03-17-2017 08:53 PM

Link updated

richardb

12-20-2020 01:28 PM

Just an update here, I think our ICV finally failed at around 182,000 miles on our 3.0i

I believe it is worth cleaning the valve, the first time we cleaned it (in this video) we were able to extend the life another 50,000 miles! Amazing. A related pesky code came back recently and cleaning the valve did not resolve it.

Finally caved and bought a brand new ICV. So, try cleaning first, if that fails you'll need to replace.

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