[Gr330zhp]

Hello everyone!

So I am going to be doing quite a bit of maintenance on my sister's 09 328i xDrive coupe 6 speed this week. I've done most the fluids and any other small repairs on the car until now, past few years. She drives a lot though and the mileage has piled up, around 115k. Have don't lots of extensive BMW repairs in the past and have lots of the right tools, know the M30, M54 and M62TU completely, a little on my S65 and S85, time to dig into her N51 a bit and looking forward to it. What I'm doing includes radiator and hoses, serpentine belt with pulley, oil filter housing gaskets, valve cover gasket with Valvetronic gasket, spark plugs, differential fluids, gearbox fluid(third time around), coolant flush, and power steering fluid with reservoir. Have the Bentley for the E9x too so that should be handy as always (though I wish it included my M3)

Valve cover gasket seems to be a little tricky with the Valvetronic? Does something need to be reset? can it be done without resetting?

Planning on ordering autoenginuity this week as well to have and also register a new battery it needs. Would that work to reset Valvetronic setting?

Thanks

[coriolis14]

Originally Posted by Gr330zhp

Hello everyone!

So I am going to be doing quite a bit of maintenance on my sister's 09 328i xDrive coupe 6 speed this week. I've done most the fluids and any other small repairs on the car until now, past few years. She drives a lot though and the mileage has piled up, around 115k. Have don't lots of extensive BMW repairs in the past and have lots of the right tools, know the M30, M54 and M62TU completely, a little on my S65 and S85, time to dig into her N51 a bit and looking forward to it. What I'm doing includes radiator and hoses, serpentine belt with pulley, oil filter housing gaskets, valve cover gasket with Valvetronic gasket, spark plugs, differential fluids, gearbox fluid(third time around), coolant flush, and power steering fluid with reservoir. Have the Bentley for the E9x too so that should be handy as always (though I wish it included my M3)

Valve cover gasket seems to be a little tricky with the Valvetronic? Does something need to be reset? can it be done without resetting?

Planning on ordering autoenginuity this week as well to have and also register a new battery it needs. Would that work to reset Valvetronic setting?

Thanks

The water pump & thermostat should be replaced if she hasn't already had that done (should be done at 100k).

You also might want to clean off and swap her VANOS solenoids.

[Gr330zhp]

Originally Posted by coriolis14

The water pump & thermostat should be replaced if she hasn't already had that done (should be done at 100k).

You also might want to clean off and swap her VANOS solenoids.

Thanks for the reply. VANOS solenoids have been done under warranty