Found a puddle of oil below a cylinder, on investigating the cam chain tensioner bolt had slackened allowing a drip of oil to run down onto the header. Had to remove the throttle body to get access to tighten said bolt.
After doing a bit of homework on this it seems to be a common problem with these motors.
Anyone else had this experience?
Cam chain tensioner oil leak.
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guest2360
Re: Cam chain tensioner oil leak.
Not a common problem I think. Done up properly it shouldn't happen again.
Re: Cam chain tensioner oil leak.
Hopefully not, there is a fair bit of info on it online.
When i read about the perils of drinking i gave up reading.
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David.
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Re: Cam chain tensioner oil leak.
Not had any problems with either my 2010 or 2012 TC's.
Found this thread on BMWMOA, http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php ... k-6K-miles, might be worth saving for future reference.
Found this thread on BMWMOA, http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php ... k-6K-miles, might be worth saving for future reference.
Re: Cam chain tensioner oil leak.
When you read Davids above link, through, you see that the problem was eventually traced and resolved, so as said worth noting for future reference. ( good `find' , David )......... 
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Re: Cam chain tensioner oil leak.
That was my experience with mine and solved the same way.
When i read about the perils of drinking i gave up reading.