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      12-29-2017, 12:15 PM   #62
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Drives: 135i N55
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Originally Posted by weehe126 View Post
Electric clicking sound when locking or unlocking the car. A little rough idle. Took 5 months for mine to throw a code.
I never had any clicking. Electronics must've went on the motor. I went to start the car up and valvetronic was dead. Eccentric shaft was stuck at minimum valve lift. Car wouldn't turn over. I didn't get any noise from it until I set the eccentric shaft to max lift manually. Then it clicked and threw codes until I unplugged it. I think it had "failsafed" to max lift. upon removing my batteyr the car tried ot re-learn the stop points and it finally died at minimum lift upon first crank.

I think my car had been running off the throttle for months... car threw an occasional valvetronic code, but I had no idea the DME was disabling valvetronic due to faults until it finally fully died. Idle was a bit lumpy and the car appeared to be running off the throttle plated in MHD logs. It now drives fine with valvtornic disabled (still lumpy idle and fault codes present obviously).
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