[iki4life]

-2013 bmw 328i sportline, 47k miles- all maintenance done on time---

So my wife drove to NYC to pick up a friend from the airport. Drive was fine on the way. On the way back they stopped to pick up some food and suddenly the car wouldnt start. at all.
Road side assistance guys checked the battery and it was good. They also tried to restart the car again, and it did for about 3-4 minutes, and then it turned off by itself again. after that, it wouldnt start.
Towed the car to bmw of manhattan, and they said they couldnt get back to me till wednesday.
my guess was a fuel pump failure. Googled it but most recall issues are for 2014/15 models, while mine is a 2013.
Diagnosis?

thanks for your 2 cents!

[robbiep]

Impossible to diagnose.
Could include :
Fuel filter, fuel pump, throttle position sensor, MAF sensor, bad fuel, bad connection to fuel pump ... the possibilities are almost endless.

What it needs is fault codes reading, initially. That should help to narrow it down a little. Until then, any guess is just that - a guess.

[iki4life]

got it checked...it was fuel pump failure....dont know how a fuel pump can fail after just 47k miles.

[floydarogers]

Originally Posted by iki4life

got it checked...it was fuel pump failure....dont know how a fuel pump can fail after just 47k miles.

Look up MTBF - Mean Time Between Failure.

The probability of something failing is never zero. You were unlucky - good thing it didn't fail 3,000 miles later.

[Pete1978]

Originally Posted by iki4life

got it checked...it was fuel pump failure....dont know how a fuel pump can fail after just 47k miles.

that is beyond ridiculous, $50k car, pump dies after 40,000 miles....

[iki4life]

Originally Posted by Pete1978

that is beyond ridiculous, $50k car, pump dies after 40,000 miles....

exactly my thought.

My family has owned toyota's for most of their lives. The least driven was a '98 corolla with 186,000 miles, and the most driven was a '85 pickup with 320,000 miles. Sold an '89 Tercel with 280,000 miles and Sold an '07 camry with 270,000 miles and now own a 2013 avalon and a 2013 Lexus ES350 that probably won't die until 2025, as well as a 2006 sienna that has 140,000 miles and running like new. its crazy.

On the flip side, my friend owned a 2002 3 series that he had to trade in due to constant breakdowns for an infiniti g35, and my aunt drove her 5 series for less than 3 years before her transmission blew out. I still took the risk and bought the F30. I didnt expect the fuel pump to fail so quickly, and I'm heavily considering buying the extended warranty. I love my car, but its a fact that germans just dont produce the best bang for its buck as compared to the japanese.

[rugbyfool89]

I f ze germans would just buy their fuel/water pumps from the Japanese...