Help? Introduction of my Zed, myself and the first problem.

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lmario

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Hi,

I bought my bleu 2006 3.0SI in April after I had a dealer check it. It had around 56000km on the clock and it had just been serviced.
Since then I drove around 10.000km, first some commuting to get to know the car a bit better and the went for a long 2 week drive with the wife through Germany, Austria, Italy and France. (almost 3600 km, a lot of mountain roads, some without the wife, her screaming sometimes stil surprises me and I need my focus to hoon.)
So I feel I'm a Lucky guy. :D
I, that is: a 50 year old petrolhead that knows how to completely rebuild motorcycles and can do regular maintainance on a car but has no Z4 technical experience. :oops:

Now, my problem (besides the fact that my height of 1,94m is till too short for my weight) is that yesterday on the higway in france the engine light came on. The enige ran smooth, starts without problems, runs idle without any hesitation.
I stopped, read the manual: "your exhaust gasses do not meet the reguirements, see your dealer" :? and decided to drive home the remaining 600km.
Engine still ran smoothly, I could not notice any difference over the previous 9400km.
After about 150km I realised I had my OBD2 plug onboard and torque on the smartphone, so stopped and checked the error code: P0015- "B" camshaft position-Timing Over retarded (Bank1)

Because he had been running smoothly and the manual did not suggest to stop immediately, I resetted the fault code and "carefully" drove on. Meaning I did not rev over 3k.
The light stayed off for about 400km and then came on again.

Before handing the car to the stealer I would like to ask this ocean of Z4 knowledge, the forum, if you can give me some clues on the possible source of the problem?


Please know that I have been searching the forum first , but found only problems related to P0015 with multiple faultcodes and on other engines (no 3.0SI).

Regards,

Mario
 
Hi Mario

Welcome to the forum. I'm not very technically minded but I'm sure the problem can be solved within the forum :)

Have you got any pictures of your zed 8)

Adam


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Adam,

I don't have any pictures yet, sorry.
Will take and post some soon.

In the mean time I hope that some Z4 owners here can help me with some suggestions. 8)

Grtz,

Mario
 
Long list of codes here and indeed yours is related to the crakshaft position, but it states "correlated", so I'm assuming it's not the crankshaft itself. Could it be the belt timing? Not very technical either,but with this bump, others might notice this thread :P

http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9444
 
Keeping it simples the camshaft position sensor is the first thing to eliminate? Either that or sticky VANOS but the sensor has to be first. I've no experience of changing one but there have been threads about other members doing them so it's worth search. But personally I would get a good indi to run through it unless you fancy running the gauntlet of changing part-after-part until you get the right one.
 
Adamski said:
Hi Mario

Welcome to the forum. I'm not very technically minded but I'm sure the problem can be solved within the forum :)

Have you got any pictures of your zed 8)

Adam


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any pictures of you wife then ? :D
 
Sounds like a vanos error. Try clearing the code and see if it returns, it could have been caused by substandard fuel in France ( standards are not as exact as here ).

Then it's a case of having cleared all the codes then read all of them including any pending ones to make an accurate diagnosis.

:D
 
@Nelly WQelly,

Thanks.
That was my first assumption too. Tanked E10 for the first time.
I''ve filled the Z up and done a reset again and since then no new errors. (Haven't driven it very much.)
It was the only code, so I keep my fingers crossed that it does not come back.
grtz,

Mario
 
First thing I thought when I started reading....... Was shite fuel
I drive around Europe a lot in various cars and I see that error a lot.
Drive the tank empty, re fuel somewhere else , re-set , sorted ...
 
I had exactly the same when I did a road trip to Europe after about 3000 miles just after I had filled up.
When I filled up again after 300 miles I cancelled the codes and had no more problems, I assumed I had a bad fill of petrol. That was 2 years ago.
Give it a little longer run your tank almost dry and fill to top.
 
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