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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grand" data-source="post: 426594" data-attributes="member: 6501"><p>You may want to troubleshoot the oil separator first. Mine was emitting white smoke at startup and after idling at traffic light. Changed the oil separator and the smoke is gone. This could be due to the oil separator being clogged and egnine oil seeped thru. This is a much cheaper and quicker alternative repair route compared to changing the valve seal. I have been to several other workshops prior to this and most of them recommended changing the valve seal. If not for the time factor to change the seal, I would have accepted their suggestion and parted with more than RM2K although the seal may not necessarily be the culprit. And once they open up your engine top to change your valve seal, they would normally suggest that you might as well change the oil separator. Thus in the end, you may not be sure whether it is the replacement of the oil separator or the valve seal which solve your problem, or may be both :burnout:. See my post at the E60 thread. :wink:</p></blockquote><p></p>