2005 X5 4.8 NO start ONLY CRANK

[Amendez92]

Originally Posted by upallnight

To check for sparks you will have to remove one of the coil pack from a sparkplug, connect a spare sparkplug to the coil pack, make sure the body of the spark plug is connected to ground or a metal part on the engine, have someone crank the engine. You should see a spark from the sparkplug.

You replace the fuel pump relay, but did you check to see if the fuel pump is working?

You can remove the gas cap, have some one turn the key to the start position and listen for the hum of the fuel pump spinning. The fuel pump will only spin for a couple of seconds and if the engine doesn't start it will shut down.

How much gas is in the tank? If it reads less than half you could have a bad transfer pump and the side that the pump is located in could be empty.

Thanks again will try again, now that you mention it she does show less than half a tank I will add some gas and see if that helps..