Have A BMW With An N54? See Why These Guys Are Pissed

Well, I guess no one is perfect, but the most ridiculous thing about this engine is that it actually won "international engine of the year award" for 4 years in a roll and (I am guessing here) myriad of other "best engine awards". Brilliant example of objective journalism, aint it??
And, this is an engine that had to sacrifice variable valve timing technology for the sake of DI while, just for comparison, the 2006 2GR-FSE of Toyota/Lexus somehow manages to have DI, port injection an dual VVT at the same time.

I think the lawsuit is justified. The fuel pump problem has been going on for years. For moost owners, with the problem, their car goes into limp mode. However some owners have been placed in a dangerous situation because thier cars just stopped dead (some in fast moving traffic). The response from BMW has been poor. In some cases, dealerships have tried to put the blame on the customers by saying they have bad gas (too much ethanol). That's unacceptable, especially since these pumps have been failing in countries that don't have ethanol in the gas.

Rectifier..
well the judges for international engine of year awards are obviously paid off .. also have you seen howe many Germans are on the panel..

Obviously. The payoff scheme is the real accomplishment. Check out the list of judges. How are they keeping all of these people quiet?!?!?

Argentina
Carlos Angio, Pablo Jorge Gualtieri

Australia
John Carey, Bill McKinnon

Austria
Horst Bauer

Belgium
Etienne Visart de Bocarmé

Brazil
Marcelo Moura

Canada
David Booth, Jim Kenzie, Marc Lachapelle, Richard Russell

China
Gary Tsang

Czech Republic
Tomas Hyan

Egypt
Mohamed Sheta

France
Christophe Congrega, Thierry Etienne, Yves Maroselli, Benoît Pérot

Germany
Thomas Imhof, Georg Kacher, Jürgen Lewandowski, Juergen Zoellter

Greece
Nikos Kounitis

Holland
Jeroen Jongeneel

Hungary
Gábor Szécsényi

India
Adil Jal Darukhanawala, Hormazd Sorabjee

Ireland
Padraic Deane

Italy
Lorenzo Facchinetti, Marco Marelli, Massimo Nascimbene

Japan
Yasuhiko Kawamura, Jack K. Yamaguchi

Mexico
Sergio Oliveira, Rogelio Rivera-Nava

New Zealand
Brian Cowan

Philippines
Carl Cunanan

Poland
Robert Bielecki

Portugal
Joaquim Oliveira, José Vieira

Romania
Dan Vardie

Russia
Leonid Golovanov, Mikhail Podorozhansky

Slovenia
Tomaz Porekar

South Africa
Francois Rabe, Jake Venter

South Korea
Charley Chae

Spain
Arturo de Andrés

Sweden
Rolf Gildenlow

Thailand
Richard Kajornsak Leu

Turkey
Halit Bolkan

Ukraine
Oleg Vasilevsky

United Kingdom
Paul Horrell, Graham Johnson, John Simister, Dean Slavnich

USA
Mike Allen, Eddie Alterman, Jason Cammisa, Dan Carney, Ken Gross, Patrick Hong, Frank Markus, Marc Noordeloos, Dennis Simannaitis, Dave Vanderwerp, Chris Walton

International Judges
Matt Davis, Greg Kable, Peter Lyon, Peter Nunn, Peter Robinson

Well played NannerPus, well played indeed. Touche.

engine of they year on paper, or tested in new cars...because you can't pay them off unless they're German....

Didn't we all know this already? My friend has been in dealer four times just for the engine alone. Hope N55 solves the issue once for all, since I'm putting it back to shopping list now.

your friend doesnt know how to drive.

If he drives even harder he'll only spend more time in dealer.

BMW = Bring My Wallet

NannerPus..
I'm not talking about them being quiet, I'm talking abou them awarding it the best engine for years..

Of course they can be bribed into voting for..... look at the London 2012 olympic comittee with the official olympic car..

Follow all the incentives the car journalists on the panel are given, the truth is there..

BMWs Rule!!!

Perhaps this is just a coincedence, but I'm a first-time 335 owner (2011 335i), and with only 1,600 miles on the odometer, the engine failure light came on, later it misterously turned off. The dealer claims that it "calibrated itself" and therefore is nothing to worry about, but I'm a little leary about this! Anyone else out there with the new N55 engine experiencing early problems? I heard too many complaints about the N54, and that's why I waited for the 2011 N55.

I have yet to here any compliants about the new N55 But I know it hates ethonal fuel any thing over 10% it going to kick on a light.

I can imagine that it won't win engine of the year next year, A black eye for BMW, they are making Toyota look good here.

yet, I can imagine if there was a problem BMW would stand behind it. I like BMW, but there are some fanatical BMW lovers here, blind fanatics!

I drive the n54 in a E93 335i,and I can tell you it's running perfect with no problems.

That's my real life story.

Not everyone is like you.

xj13, you are just lucky. failure rate is high but not 100%. just because your car is running perfect does not mean others did not have problems with their cars.

I am in the same boat. I am on my 2nd 335i with the N54 engine and I have totaled 80,000 miles between the 2 vehicles and I have had ZERO issues. I know why exactly too.
1 - Most people do not put premium gas in their cars. The BMW dealership I service my vehicle at said they noticed that with a lot of those cars. putting regular in a turboed vehicle!?
2 - i DRIVE my car. I drive it hard and spirited. The people who only drive under 30 MPH to work and never get the vehicle up to speed have the issues.
3 - I'm not lazy with my maintenance. A lot of people still do not bring their vehicle in at the scheduled time and date, even though it is free!
Ask any BMW dealership, these are big issues. Driver error.

They have had problems before. Wasn't there an M series engine that was blowing up?

Yes there was. That was the previous generation M3.

Yes, it was literally blowing up.... ruhtard.

It would be interesting to know what the failure rate is? And if its high then shame on BMW for not stepping up and taking care of the problem. The E46 M3 engines that blew up the first year were taken care of by BMW without hassles.
It would also be interesting to know weather these pumps are replaced by engine tuners like Dinan for example. I have not heard if they do, but if there is an underlying problem with the car then that would make sense since they immediately fitted a oil cooler to address the overheating problems.
All cars have weaknesses and one of BMWs chronic problems has been there catastrophic water pump failures at high mileages. This causes anyone driving there car for years to replace the pump prophylactically. A true pain if the A**

They have been addressing this problem. In the beginnning, they needed to get away from Siemens because their HPFP failed a lot. They switched to Bosch and added an oiler cooler to vehicles with a sport package and there were not any issues afterwards.
The failure rate is considered high because I have heard a lot of people are just bringing their vehicles in complaining they don't work, regardless of no light coming on. I think people cant afford them and are trying to get out of them because of the economy. look at toyota, how many people really had braking problems?

I take issue with the comments of 2ndbimmer. I have a 2007 335i convertible (w/sport package), which I purchased (32k miles) in April of this year. I absolutely love my car, but it was in the shop 5 days last month with HPFP issues at 37k miles. After 4 days of diagnosis, a software update was performed, but no parts were repaired or replaced.

I do use premium gas - every time. I drive the freeways of LA each day to/from work, and hit 80-100 mph (yes, I have a lead foot) for a fair distance of my journey each way, so I drive my car hard, too. And, I always have the car properly maintained. All of the 2007-2010 N54 cars are under warranty, and there is no reason that any of them would not be properly maintained, as the BMW warranty covers pretty much everything but tire wear.

I just wonder if we’ll ever find out the percentage of N54 cars which have experienced HPFP problems. From what I’ve read, it seems like it’s not a small percentage.

On my second N54 335i with a total of about 50K miles between the two, both are/were tuned and running bolt ons. I have dragged the second one about a dozen times (just to see) and drive spiritedly. No HPFP probs.

So there.