Camshaft position sensor

Camshaft position sensor

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JDR33

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135 posts

99 months

Sunday 19th May 2019
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Hi all,

A few months ago I was driving my 116i e87 2010 and white smoke appeared in my rear view mirror due to a load of oil spill on to my exhaust. The engine sounded very rough and obviously stopped using it since.

I put an OBD code reader in today and came up with P0015 which comes up as a failure with the camshaft position sensor- retarded timing bank 1. Is this what's causing the rough engine and oil leak by my manifold area? Has this caused damage to my engine? Or will a new CMP sensor generally set everything back to how it was?

Appreciate any replies.

JDR33

Original Poster:

135 posts

99 months

Saturday 1st June 2019
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The tensioner was loose and also the chain, I've tightened the tensioner bolt best i can but do I need a new chain? Or is there something else I can check on as I don't fancy pulling apart the engine.