And just one other thing to note.................in approx a dozen times that it failed at the weekend it never threw up a fault code in the ecm..................have had ecm spy connected tonight and only code was BAS due to me unplugging it for the ride back from Calais.

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2001 X1 2009 1125CR 2006 Uly X3 2010 Uly a fully Maz'd S1 and a 1991 RS1200 Westwind.

or leave it on and take the cover off, to keep it from getting so hot ...it was cooled Sunday morning

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I have been wondering if in hindsight if I'd done that if it would have kept itself cool enough to get home.......not sure how it would have liked the monsoon on the A14 though.......saying that i allways break down on that road anyway

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2001 X1 2009 1125CR 2006 Uly X3 2010 Uly a fully Maz'd S1 and a 1991 RS1200 Westwind.

hindsight....ja

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Once every 47000 miles. Hardly worth carrying a spare.

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I started out with nothing and still got most of it left.

says a man with a bit on the side...mind you with that many miles on the clock

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I guess the failure looked to the ECM just as if the engine was not rotating any more, which is not a fault from the view of the ECM. I assume it depends on how the sensor fails. If it is sending "obviously wrong" signals (however they might look alike, but I successfully simulated a boxer/inline twin engine's cps signal without any problems), or the signal wire is shorted to ground or supply voltage, the ECM might throw an diagnostic code - IF THIS ERROR IS ENABLED IN THE ERROR MASK! I'm not sure it is.

I've never heard about failing XB camshaft sensors, but I had two X1 sensor failures reported before, one of them exactly as you described. I suppose they are interchangeable, so it might be worth to proceed with an XB sensor.

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Is there an error check for it? Cam Sync Failure (56) is the closest I can find and that is disabled in the factory...

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This error code is the only one I would know of.

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Terry Pratchett

hmmmm Plot thickens as you've all probably seen from my other posts...........although this sensor was on the verge of meltdown it has not cured my problem by changing it .......is the new one faulty? .......not impossible but would have thought unlikely .........all i'll say at the moment is that me and Muffin are having a very strained relationship at the present time.....the excuse that his younger brother played up last week so he can as well doesn't wash with me I'm afraid

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2001 X1 2009 1125CR 2006 Uly X3 2010 Uly a fully Maz'd S1 and a 1991 RS1200 Westwind.

give you £20 for muffin

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You ought to be offering Muffin £20 for Kev...

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He'd rather ride the bike than Kev though.....

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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019

You'd get the mother and sister for that in Oswestry

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