I'm sure you've googled "eccentric shaft sensor" and found the part is about $300 and the install is quoted at an obscene 8 hours.

I'd just take a weekend and do it with a few hours at a time...just mechanical hand dis/re-assembly, as I see it...

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If it were my daily driver, I would. But the wife drives it and she doesn't want to wait around and drive the other cars while I get done "at some point." :D

Sorry to resurrect a really old thread (I'm usually just a lurker), but I just had this code appear with my 2008 3.0si yesterday. I had the code read at Autozone and it came up P1017; an indy shop scanned it this morning as well. The indy shop said it was related to the VANOS and would need an hour or so to diagnose the problem exactly (when the light comes back on since they cleared it).

I cannot find the eccentric shaft sensor when I look on getbmwparts.com, but I can find the VANOS solenoids. They all look like fairly straightforward fixes, but I just want to make sure I am getting the right parts. Any advice?

I had a thread with a trouble-starting issue here and it turned out to be "intake vanos solenoid, both replaced. They found a bulletin on it too. SIB 11-02-08 "

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...t-start-2.html

If it's a bulletin I would suppose you have nothing to lose by asking them if it's related and get a free fix?

Hey, Just curious how's everything. Did the problem get fixed after you change the Eccentric Shaft Sensor?

I've got the same code for my 07' E83. BMW Code: 2A31 & 2A47, pointing directly to that EXPENSIVE sensor (labor-wise).

Keep us posted!