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Just join this amazing group. I just bought BMW 218d last week and really love the car. plenty of room for carrying stuff and family as well. Since this is my first BMW and usually I use jap cars, so, I don't really know about BMW's maintenance, looking forward to learning from y'all guys.. cheers...

Just Pm'd you back, cheers. The crankshaft isn't out by 360, I was super careful about the timing matching. If I were to do one crank rotation, the cam would be 180 degrees off it's mark, but two and it's right on. As for moving stuff without the belt, I don't think I moved the crank at all without a belt, but the cam I did, I wouldn't say I moved it, more so tilted then tilted back, as I was trying to get to the cam seal and I had a screwdriver holding the cam mostly in place. I didn't end up taking the cam sprocket off as it was too tight. Thanks for the ideas though!

Is the crankshaft 360 degrees out? The crank goes past the timing mark twice in one revolution of the camshaft, so the marks line up twice in one engine cycle. Did you have to move the crank and or camshaft much from where it was when you took the old belt off to get the marks to line up again, or was it all pretty much all in the same place? Unlikely it is the case, but it is possible.

I'm interested. I'll take them.