High pressure fuel pump failure - car went into limp mode while driving on a city street.

- Los Angeles, CA, USA

I bring in to longbeach BMW dealers and they mass up the car and they wanted 10,000 dallors to fixed it and I only bring to in for recalls I don't let me pick up the car

- Westminster, CA, USA

I have been having misfires. First cylinder 3&5. changed all plugs and coil packs. Ran well for a couple days. Then boom. Misfires again. Long cold start cranks. I can bring the rpms all the way up to redline as long as I don't step on the throttle more than 25%. as son as I go to put so throttle into it. It's hesitates/stutters. Then service engine soon and cel light come one. The high pressure fuel pump is the culprit. Same type of problems I had on my N54 motor. I thought BMW fixed this issue. Guess they need a recall on these as well.

- Upton, MA, USA

The high pressure fuel pump has failed and been replaced multiple times. It begins with the car taking much longer to crank and start. Then it completely fails potentially while driving, creating a safety issue, or will no longer start. The hpfp is easily replaced with just 3 bolts holding it to the side of the motor. Any competent shop can replace it in a couple hours at the most. The problem is exacerbated and made extremely frustrating by the service centers refusing to address the obvious problem. Instead they feign ignorance while hundreds of thousands of these are replaced after having replaced numerous other things. These other distractions are all more time consuming to replace and the root defective high pressure fuel pump is the last thing to be addressed when it should be the first and quickest. Every time once this has been replaced, it has been fixed right away. It is often that it will last for a few months or few thousand miles before failing again. BMW needs to properly design and replace these dangerous failing units on N55 and other 3.0L turbo direct injection motors.

- Dallas, TX, USA

BMW 2011 52I, fuel pump wire plug is get hot burn hold at top of pump housing, when tank is full it leak out under rear seat. [xxx] at satterfields' auto tech, Decatur, alabam 35601, phon # [xxx]I can send you pictures or the pump information redacted pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).

- Decatur, AL, USA

This vehicle has the same N54 engine and same fuel pump that was covered under recall for failing fuel pumps on the 2007-2010 BMW cars. It was the only BMW vehicle that used this motor in 2011 and such was left out of the original recall. There were only about 600 of the vehicles made for the usa so I suppose that might also be why they were omitted. BMW has informed us that they cannot cover it under the recall since it was not included even though it has the same motor and fuel pump that was recalled in previous years. This car has experienced a fuel pump failure while driving on a city street in traffic. The ECU went into "reduced power mode" and the car could not accelerate past 15 mph in fast moving traffic creating an unsafe condition and a near collision. The car also has the long crank time and engine error code P0087 which is normally experienced with the fuel pump failure. The 2011, 1-series M coupe should be added to the list of vehicles covered under the original recall and BMW should add their extended warranty to the fuel pump like they did the other recalled cars.

- Scottsdale, AZ, USA