Fuel Pump problems of the 2008 BMW 335 - part 2

1. Used regular unleaded as atlanta was out of premium 2. Drove vehicle about 20 miles 3. Attempted to start vehicle, engine would violent shake then die, engine malfunction indicator would appear 4. Dealer replaced high pressure fuel pump.

I have a 2008 BMW 335i convertible. On two occasions, the fuel pump has malfunctioned coming off of the freeway in los angeles, resulting in complete lack of power. This has put me and my family's life in danger. I have read countless other reports of this occurring. Please make BMW issue a recall, ASAP before someone gets seriously injured.

At around 2000 miles on the odometer, the car began having long crank times. I took it to the dealer and they identified the problem as a high pressure fuel pump. The fuel pump was replaced under warranty.

I feel this situation warrants your immediate review for a possible forced recall. My 2008 BMW 335xi began having sporadic problems in September 2009. Because of my distance to a dealership and long time between problems I did not take the car to a dealership immediately. By December the problems became more severe and frequent. The engine warning light would become illuminated, the engine would have substantially lower power and the car would stall without warning. I had first taken the car to a BMW dealership for repair on Jan 2, 2009 and then again to a BMW service center 3 more times. In all 4 cases the service department claimed to have made a software adjustment and said the problem was fixed. In all 4 cases the problem was not fixed. It was not until the 5th time taken to a dealer and my calling the regional manager and threatening to return the car that the fuel pump was finally replaced. Based on comments made by technicians I suspect that BMW realizes it has a systemic problem with the fuel pump and they have implemented a stall policy on replacing the units to spread out the financial impact and/or hope the problem extends beyond the warranty period. The danger with this action is that it places the drivers and passengers at risk as the car can stall without out warning such as in an intersection as has happened to me on several occasions.

The contact owns a 2008 BMW 335xi. The high pressure fuel pump has fractured three times. This condition causes the vehicle to enter into limp mode, and subsequently stops fuel delivery into the engine. The fuel pump was replaced three times under warranty. The failure mileage was 27,000.

I own a BMW 2008 335 xi and have had three fuel pumps and pistons changed on it. The time before today, the fuel pump malfunctioned and pistons needed to be changed because gas was burning and smoke was coming out of the right tail pipe. Today it was towed for the fourth fuel pump replacement and burning gas smoke was shooting out of the right tail pipe while driving in the city. In every instance the car was in motion and will stop immediately. I have been fortunate that this has occurred in the city because I frequent the NJ turnpike and am fearful it will happen while on the turnpike. There are numerous people having this issue and BMW is aware of the problem but they just replace the fuel pumps with faulty fuel pumps. Please help me address this problem. I am scare the next time this happens it is going to cause serious damage and injuries (including death).