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02-04-2009, 03:39 PM
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X5 died today while driving
2008 with 10.5K miles. Had been driving for 10 minutes and exited a freeway. About a minute later while traveling at 45 MPH, the tac jumped to over 3000 RPMs and the accelerator quit doing anything. A few seconds later the engine shut down and I was in the left lane with no power steering. I was able to glide it onto a side street. All attempts to restart failed, it would run for 1/2 second and die.
Just refilled it last night, so fuel was full. It was -6 here, but it has been much colder. BMW Assist had a tow truck out in 35 minutes and my dealer has it in the queue. Anyone else experience this? Very scary to go through. 
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02-04-2009, 03:44 PM
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scary indeed but shocked by the response time after hearing of other horror stories. Did it already go through the annual checkup?
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02-04-2009, 05:40 PM
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I will post back when I hear back from the dealer. Sounds like it may be a day or two due to their backlog.
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02-04-2009, 06:10 PM
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This definitely sounds that bad gas. A few years back, a gasoline tanker operator mistakenly put diesel in the regular unleaded underground gas tank at a gas station in my town. Needless to say, many people (I believe about 2 dozen) had their car engines seize up. Hopefully your situation isn't as bad.
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02-06-2009, 04:07 PM
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Hope your back up and running soon OP.
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02-04-2009, 03:58 PM
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sounds like bad gas.
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02-04-2009, 04:23 PM
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The variable that might have caused this is the fact you filled up last night. I want to say there's something wrong with the petrol.
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02-05-2009, 02:13 AM
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Most likely it's your fuel pump. What you described sounded very much a fuel delivery problem.
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02-05-2009, 12:23 PM
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Just heard from my dealer. It was the fuel pump that died. They are ordering a new one and hope to have it by tomorrow.
My service adviser also mentioned that he has seen a few of these in recent months -- I wasn't the first. Obviously 10.5K is an early death for a fuel pump. Great work by my dealership so far. Very happy with their service.
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