Thanks for sharing... Happy everything worked out for you bro. I was following the original thread and was like dang, so many errors...

 

Thanks for the info; I’ll be waiting for the images of the item replaced. My car is 08, 528i N52 and have replaced few things trying to solve rough idle and now I am getting randomly cylinders misfires on different cylinders every morning without any engine light come on yet.

 

thanks for sharing, my car this morning said Increased Emissions. I will have to take a look at this over the weekend.

 

UPDATE: There is an elbow joint at the bottom of the vacuum pump that the mechanic thought was the problem, it's a $12 part that gets brittle with age and cracks easily. However, it turned out that my vacuum pump itself cracked in half, so the repair was a little more than originally thought ($160), still very reasonable considering the alternatives (O2 sensor = $150 each X 3, Secondary Air Pump ~$200, Coil packs $35 X 6, etc). I will post pics later.

 

Okay, here is what happened to my car:
First, this is what your vacuum pump is supposed to look like:


Here is what mine looked like:




Here is the elbow the mechanic thought was the issue at first, he said it gets brittle over time and can crack:


Lastly, I have an elbow running from my Secondary Air Pump to the motor, that for some reason was held together with electrical tape. The mechanic replaced that one as well as a precaution:

 

ahhh.. pictures say a thousand words. Imagine BMW could have charged you over a thousands bucks lol

 

LOL, yup, and based on the errors the car was showing they would've changed all my coil packs, my O2 sensors, my secondary air pump, and STILL not fixed the issue.

 

Nice find! Bookmarked.

 

Thank you for sharing the happiness!

 

Thanks for sharing.

Just one thing, it's an oil separator, not a VP