BMW 5 Series: Valve gear
VANOS

- VANOS B58 engine
- VANOS B58TU engine
Following the changeover from a two-part chain drive to a single-part chain
drive, the camshaft
sprockets on the VANOS now need 46 teeth instead of the previous 36 teeth. To
compensate for the
additional weight of the larger camshaft sprockets, the adjuster was designed to
be shorter and more
compact.
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A new development for the B58TU engine is the split cooling. A cooling
concept which is used the
N63 TU2.
The split cooling function uses the electric split cooling valve, eSCV, to
enable on-demand
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Due to the ever increasing amount of traffic on our roads, Driver Assistance
Systems in vehicles
continue to gain in importance. The systems have different functions: some
gather information to help
the driver in the decision-making process, while others take on the driver's
roles in monotonous t
The Parking Maneuvering Assistant (PMA) supports the driver in many ways. The
assistant measures
the size of a gap between cars and decides, based on the result, whether the gap
is large enough to
accommodate the vehicle. It also relieves the driver of the task of maneuvering
into the space.
The