Lucky you, you get to make your hands dirty again . MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

I had my oil changed and refilled with Castrol Magnatec 5W-40 C3 Fully Synthetic about 3000 miles ago. The dreaded rattle appeared about 500 miles before the oil change - and has not gone away in the slightest since the change. My rattle is a constant one, not just on startup. NW060

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johnboyairey wrote:

you can actually turn the solenoids out with just pump pliers used with some protection, on the actual solenoids as they are not supertight. its in a search of 'e39 vanos m63tu proceedure'
http://www.beisansystems.com/procedures/m62tu_vanos_procedure.htm

edit, here too. (simpler version!) http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/720836/

mine are mouse-quiet at 160k

Replaced the second check valve since I had to drain the system to fix a leak. 98% of the vanos rattle is gone. Used a standard 32mm socket but thinned the wall about 2.5mm with a stone wheel. Like the last solenoid this one was torqued much too tight.