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Comment on 2008 BMW 335XI – Fuel Delivery Lemon Story by Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:35:31 +0000

Left on the side of the road; many service engine lights; 2 fuel pumps in 16 months. I traded my 335xi in January 2010. I now have the 335d. Wish me luck!

Comment on 2008 BMW 335XI – Fuel Delivery Lemon Story by Mike

Mike — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:35:54 +0000

I lease on a 3 year term half way done and Have had my 335xi coupe white on white, Sport package BMW in the service department on my third fuel pump and turbo issue, also experienced major issues with the run flats and my alignment out of the factory. Looking for a new lease through BMW should be an interesting saga. Good thing the service department has been wonderful so far. I will keep posted. 24k on the odometer. Sticker 52,690

Issue is Engine Malfunction and Complete shut down. Great when you live on the foothills of the sierras. Anybody gotten out of their lease or trade up etc?

Comment on 2008 BMW 335XI – Fuel Delivery Lemon Story by Ray

Ray — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:55:39 +0000

This info is good, thanks for doing it. I have a 2009 335xi coupe I purchased end of may. At 178 miles, engine service lite came on, replaced all six injectors, one coil & spark plug. 203 miles lite back on, said gas had too much ethanol (18%) ?? So was not cars fault, get rid of gas, should be ok. 1839 miles lite on replaced high pres fuel pump. 2806 lite on, limp mode also, now waiting for new design injectors from Germany. So my question is at what point do I start bugging the manufacurer?? Do I let them fix it again and see what happens. They are not counting the gas problem as an infraction, which to me is BS. The dealer (Westmont, IL) has been very nice. Thanks, Ray

Comment on 2008 BMW 335XI – Fuel Delivery Lemon Story by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:06:27 +0000

Hi Brent, I am having the same problem with my 2008 335i (engine malfunction). Before purchasing I did some researched and found out that there was a problem with the 07’s but I had no clue it would spread to the 08’s as well.

My car has been in the shop 3 times for the same problem just recently and the next day I started my car the same issue occurred. Now the Service Manager wants me to come into the dealership this weekend.

Comment on Anatomy of Hard Disk Drives – A Deep Look into Hard Drives by munsif ali from pakistan

munsif ali from pakistan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:10:53 +0000

Thank you brendblawat- Tour information on smart disk further enriched my knowledge, I have now removed that software program called one click maintenance, which would make analysis of start , programm, history list and other issues and later correct it. It would also check the degree of fragmentation and I guess later defragment the hard disk, but actually, debugging errors programm is already officially provided by microsoft in windows operating system called dr. watson. so it is my habit that I always keep noting the superficial details about correcting problems from website. and later further research into it. It is absolutely necessary before using a computer that one must have an idea what mechanisms are involved on installation of programs and storage of other readable/editable data.

while I was installing windows xp software, my 10 GB hard disk each time was showing 7 GB, I was not becoming able to format it so that I could have two partitions, i tried my level best then inserted bootable CD of SP3 pack, which helped me format the disk but set up could not copy files to hard disk, I removed it and once again used windows xp CD, and this time because of use of SP3 CD, it created two partitions and I proceeded with installation. Now in case if I have to write some tutorial literature on installation of operating system fromm CD, I would begin as follows,

01- Do You want to completely erase all data on your hard disk, if you are not interested in backing up your files, and want to create new partitions.

02- in the above case, if you want to bring your hard disk into basic partition, and your already installed software is not working, so kindly take the following steps,

now mr. brenton this is how my philosophy of work is, because I encountered such problem when my already installed software disappeared, and computer screen was showing only the green lanscape of windows xp and all icons had disappeared. So looking for correct literature on websites has remained my hobby, hoping you will agree.

Comment on Anatomy of Hard Disk Drives – A Deep Look into Hard Drives by brentblawat

brentblawat — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:53:59 +0000

Munsif Ali – While there is no actual way to see if a mechanical malfunction is occurring, there is something integrated into every modern hard disk drive called S.M.A.R.T. This is a low level system of the hard drive which will detect mechanical issues and report them to the IDE Bus. When you query the S.M.A.R.T. in a program, you will learn if a hard disk is bad. Can you from Windows detect if a hard drive is bad? – not always. If you write code to have the mechanical arm read the high and low sectors (outermost and innermost sectors), upon failure of the mechanical arm, it will knock and only read the sectors as far as it can extend. While for all practical purposes data is returned (and might look as a success), it might be the wrong data.

Comment on Anatomy of Hard Disk Drives – A Deep Look into Hard Drives by munsif

munsif — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:57:32 +0000

I am munsif ali from pakistan. I found your literature very important in understanding the work of hard disk. Just recently i downloaded a one click hard disk maintenance software, which could tell after analysis of hard disk, that wether hard disk have any structural defects . I do not know what can be structural defects, except bad blocks on coated platters, but is there any software which could detect mechanical system faults, such as moving of mechanical arm.

referring to such an analysis report of a software program, Can I ask, wether such a software can detect any abnormality in mechanical arm, if it is jammed or not moving freely between tracks. I have decided to get a thrown away hard disk, and will open its case, and see wether any servicing to platters and mechanical arm can revive the hard disk.

Comment on 2008 BMW 335XI – Fuel Delivery Lemon Story by Vimean

Vimean — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:38:33 +0000

Hey Brent…I received the same letter, but it was from BMW..so they are extending the warranty on “…the high-pressure fuel pump of certain MY 2007/2008 BMW automobiles equipped with a 3.0 liter engine…BMW will extend the emissions warranty for the high-pressure fuel pump to 10 years or 120,000 miles, whichever comes first.”

Since I last wrote you and they replaced my fuel pump and fuel injectors 1, 2 and 3…I experienced the same problem one more time…this time they replaced fuel injectors 3,4 and 5 and some spark plugs…I’m happy to report, it’s been a couple of months of no drama with the car! I am keeping my fingers crossed that the problem is solved…if you don’t hear anything else from me…no news will be good news!

Comment on Command line (CMD.eXE) for Pocket PC 2003 by brentblawat

brentblawat — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:47:25 +0000

Shaf -
This is the exact reason why I have this blog.

-Brent

Comment on 2008 BMW 335XI – Fuel Delivery Lemon Story by brentblawat

brentblawat — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:45:56 +0000

Kurt,

Stay Tuned! In the next few days I am posting my outcome with BMW. Very Exciting!!

Thanks!
-Brent