Cleaning vortex style engine breather?

[shaunos]

Well I saw this mentioned a few times here i.e. people wondering if there was any maintenance required on the newer vortex style engine breathers?

Well as I was servicing my X this weekend (air,oil,fuel & cabin filters + oil) I decided to have a look at the state of the new vortex breather I fitted the last time I serviced the car to see if it had accumulated any crud during the last 8-10k miles and the answer was no, not really.. It had a very thin film of oil on it but that was about all. I sprayed some carb cleaner through it seeing as I had it off the car but it looks like a fairly maintenance free part to my untrained eye...

Just thought I'd share

Cheers,

~S.

[X5Sport]

I think the reason behind the change was to make this a 'maintenance free' fitment. No foam filter to fill up with crud.