White smoke pluming out our BMW??!!! Don't fret it's just a gasket.

I've noticed white smoke coming from my engine when I would be at idle. It finally got so bad the smoke was really getting noticeable.

I decided to look around and noticed oil on the downpipe then discovered oil pooling on the head (see video).

I followed some instructions on e90 post which helped a lot but I went to aggressive with the putty knife to loosen the valve cover. Well I broke it!!! GRRRRRR.

Grrr! cracked the cover!

broke this too!  new one on bottom

Ordered a new one and bolted it all up. I no longer see smoke!

It's not a hard job but you need to unbolt a lot of things and some areas are hard to reach. The biggest pain was trying to get the big tube off the rear of the cover which I couldn't and ended up breaking!

So if you're not a patient person I do not recommend you to do this. Try a independent shop versus dealer as price quotes can be astronomical!

changed the sparkplugs since already opened up and coil packs removed

bungee cords to move wires out the way. makes things easier!

everything put back!