2008 BMW 335I

I WAS DRIVING MY CAR GETTING ON THE FREEWAY AND THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM CAME ON STATING " ENGINE TEMPERATURE, ENGINE TEMPERATURE IS HIGH. DRIVE MODERATELY TO COOL THE ENGINE. IF TEMPERATURE INCREASES AGAIN. HAVE THE SYSTEM CHECKED BY YOUR BMW DEALER SHIP." I RECENTLY PURCHASED THIS CAR ON 6/9/2014 ON THE 30TH DAY THE CAR HAD THIS ISSUE WITH ME. THE CAR TURNED OFF 4 TIMES WITH ME AS I TRIED TO DRIVE BACK HOME. MY 2008 BMW 335I SERIES WAS PURCHASED WITH ONLY 60,000 MILES ON IT. I NEED TO KNOW IF THIS IS RECALL SO I CAN TAKE IT IN ..BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH AND SEEN THAT ALOT OF BMW CUSTOMERS ARE HAVING THE SAME ISSUES BUT YEARS AGO.... I NEED HELP CAUSE WHEN I CALLED THE DEALERSHIP THEY LOOK UP THE VIN # AND SAY THERE IS NO RECALL ON THIS CAR.... HELP I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?????? I BEEN BACK AND FORTH WITH CHRYSLER IN CLOVIS CA WHERE I PURCHASED THE CAR AND THEY WANT TO CHARGE ME $1500.00.... *TR

I WAS DRIVING VEHICLE ON 295 NEAR HAMILTON NJ AND WHILE ACCELERATING THE CAR LOST POWER. THE CAR WAS NOT RESPONSES AND WHEN I WOULD TRY TO PRESS ACCELERATOR THE CAR AND STEERING WHEEL SHOOK VIOLENTLY. THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. THE SPEED RAPIDLY DECREASED AND PUT ME IN VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. I WAS VERY LUCKY THAT I WAS ABLE TO PUT HAZARD LIGHTS ON AND PULL TO SHOULDER. I TURNED CAR OFF AND RESTARTED AND THE CAR, THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT TURNED OFF AND I IMMEDIATELY DROPPED CAR OFF AT DEALER. *TR

BMW NA HAS ISSUED THEIR "VOLUNTARY EMISSIONS RECALL CAMPAIGN 10E-A02" THERE ARE THREE PARTS TO THE RECALL: ECU REPROGRAM, HPFP (HIGH PRESSURE FUEL PUMP) REPLACEMENT, AND INJECTOR REPLACEMENT. WHICH PARTS ARE PERFORMED IS SPECIFIC TO VEHICLES VIN. I HAD BROUGHT MY CAR INTO THE DEALERSHIP LAST MONTH AND INQUIRED ABOUT THE RECALL. I WAS TOLD ACCORDING TO MY VIN THAT MY CAR WITH THE ORIGINAL HPFP AND INJECTORS ONLY NEEDED TO BE REPROGRAMMED. THIS WAS CONFIRMED WHEN I CALLED BMWNA AND WAS TOLD THAT THEIR ENGINEERS DETERMINED MY HPFP WAS NOT FAULTY. SO I ONLY HAD MY ECU REPROGRAMMED. I HAVE NOT HAD ANY SIGNIFICANTLY LONG CRANKS. TODAY I WAS DRIVING WITH MY DAUGHTERS. AS I PULLED OUT ONTO A MAJOR ROAD, THE ENGINE STARTED TO STUMBLE AND LOST A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF POWER. THIS HAD PUT ME AND MY FAMILY'S LIFE IN A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. AS I HARDLY HAD ENOUGH POWER TO PULL UP THE SMALL INCLINE OF MY DRIVEWAY. FORTUNATELY I HAD NOT PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF A SPEEDING CAR OR CUT SOMEONE OFF AND WAS NOT T-BONED OR REAR ENDED. MY CAR IS NOW AT THE DEALER GETTING A HPFP REPLACEMENT AND BEING RUN THROUGH A "PRE-PROGRAM". *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 BMW 335I. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE HAD BEEN EXPERIENCING A RECURRING FAILURE IN WHICH IT WOULD CRANK FOR AN EXTREMELY LONG, UNUSUAL TIME BEFORE STARTING. ONCE THE VEHICLE WAS STARTED, IT WOULD BEGIN TO SHAKE UNUSUALLY AND ACCELERATE EXTREMELY SLOW. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS WHERE HE WAS INFORMED THAT THE FUEL PUMP WOULD NEED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 19,500 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 21,000.

WAS DRIVING ON PUBLIC ROADS IN TRAFFIC AND THE ENGINE SIMPLY STALLED OUT. I TRIED TO START THE CAR AGAIN. DIFFICULT TO START, BUT FINALLY DID. NO POWER TO ENGINE AND CAR SIMPLY BUMPED AND SPUTTERED ALONG UNTIL THE ENGINE STALLED AGAIN. I WAS STILL IN TRAFFIC. TURNS OUT IT WAS CAUSED BY FUEL PUMP FAILURE. FUEL PUMP HAS BEEN REPLACED. *TR

I HAVE NOW EXPERIENCED FOUR FAILURES OF THE HIGH PRESSURE FUEL PUMP ON MY 2008 BMW 335I COUPE IN THE PAST YEAR. THREE OF THESE FAILURES RESULTED IN SITUATIONS WHERE POWER WAS LOST WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS IN HEAVY TRAFFIC THAT COULD HAVE RESULTED IN COLLISIONS FROM THE REAR. I ALL CASES THE CAR WAS BEHAVING NORMALLY AT SPEEDS UP TO 70MPH AND THEN THE ENGINE WOULD STOP OR GO INTO LIMP MODE ALLOWING TRAVEL AT LESS THAN 20MPH. THE FOURTH CASE RESULTED IN THE CAR NOT STARTING. IN ALL FOUR INSTANCES THE BMW DEALER STATED THE PROBLEM WAS THE HIGH PRESSURE FUEL PUMP. THE PUMP HAS NOW BEEN REPLACED TWICE AND THE ENGINE SOFTWARE HAS BEEN UPDATED THREE TIMES. THE MOST RECENT INSTANCE OCCURRED IN LATE AUGUST AND REQUIRED THAT THE VEHICLE BE TOWED. THAT IS THE OCCURRENCE REPORTED IN THE BALANCE OF THE FORM. PREVIOUS FAILURES WERE IN JUNE OF 2010, AUGUST OF 2009 AND JULY OF 2009. THIS IS CLEARLY A PROBLEM THAT COULD RESULT IN A VERY SERIOUS ACCIDENT IF IT WERE TO OCCUR IN CLOSE CHARTERS AT HIGH SPEED. *TR

I BOUGHT A NEW 2008 BMW 335I CONVERTIBLE. AT APPROXIMATELY 13,000 MILES, 12 MONTHS AFTER PURCHASE, THE HIGH PRESSURE FUEL PUMP FAILED "ENGINE MALFUNCTION-REDUCED POWER". THE CAR BEGAN SHAKING WHEN TRYING TO START IT. IT TOOK PROGRESSIVELY LONGER TO START THE CAR. A BRAND NEW FUEL PUMP WAS INSTALLED BY BMW OF DALLAS. 12 MONTHS LATER, THE SAME PROBLEM RECURRED WITH SIMILAR SYMPTOMS. ROSEVILLE BMW KEPT THE CAR FOR 1 WEEK AND UPDATED THE SOFTWARE CLAIMING BMW AUTHORIZED THE SAFE RELEASE OF THE VEHICLE PER THEIR STANDARDS. THE SERVICE PERSONNEL INSTRUCTED ME THAT THERE IS REALLY NO FIX FOR THE CAR AND NUMEROUS CUSTOMERS HAVE COME IN FOR THIS ISSUE, SOME WITH EXTREMELY UNSAFE PRESENTATIONS, SUCH AS THE CAR SUDDENLY LOSING POWER ON THE FREEWAY WHILE GOING 80 MILES/HOUR IN FRONT OF A BIG RIG. HE SAID THAT MY PROBLEMS ARE RELATED TO THIS SAFETY COMPROMISE. I TOOK THE CAR HOME AFTER ROSEVILLE BMW DEEMED IT SAFE. THE NEXT MORNING, I TURNED THE CAR ON AND THE CAR STARTED SHAKING VIOLENTLY AND THE RPMS WOULD GO TO 3,000 BACK TO 1,000 AND BACK TO 3,000 ON ITS OWN. THEN IT BEGAN SHAKING EXCESSIVELY AND THE "ENGINE MALFUNCTION REDUCED POWER" LIGHT CAME ONE. I CALLED INTO ROSEVILLE BMW, AND THE SAME SERVICE ADVISOR CALLED IT UNSAFE TO DRIVE AND HAD IT TOWED IN (WITHIN 16 HOURS OF RELEASING IT TO ME IN "SAFE CONDITION"). THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE THE FUEL PUMP AGAIN BUT ADMIT THAT THIS IS NOT A FIX BECAUSE THERE IS REALLY NO FIX FOR THIS PROBLEM. *TR

BMW 335I 6-SP MANUAL BEGAN SHAKING ROUGHLY ON START-UP, RPMS JUMPED UP AND DOWN WILDLY BETWEEN 500 AND 2000 AND CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. TURNED OFF CAR, RESTARTED, IDLING SETTLED DOWN, CAR RAN FINE, CHECK ENGINE LIGHT DID NOT COME BACK ON. SAME PROBLEM ON NEXT STARTUP, BUT CHECK ENGINE LIGHT DID NOT COME ON AND I DID NOT TURN OFF CAR. AFTER ABOUT ONE MINUTE OF IDLING, CAR BEGAN IDLING NORMALLY, DROVE FINE. SAME PROBLEM ON NEXT START UP--CALLED DEALER FOR SERVICE. STARTED CAR, IT SEEMED FINE, SO I DROVE AWAY. ON THE WAY TO THE DEALER, THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AND THE CAR BEGAN SHAKING ROUGHLY WHILE DRIVING AND HAD SEVERELY DIMINISHED ACCELERATION POWER. DOWNSHIFTING DID NOT HELP. COULD BARELY GET UP TO HIGHWAY SPEED, ESPECIALLY CLIMBING A HILL. TOOK IT TO THE DEALER. HPFP WAS REPLACED WITHIN 2 DAYS. SEEMS OKAY, BUT OCCASIONAL LURCHING, PERCEIVED LAG IN ACCELERATION AT LOW SPEEDS, AND KNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS A KNOWN PROBLEM WITH BMW X35S MAKES ME QUESTION THE CAR'S RELIABILITY. *TR