All posts tagged: p0340

BMW Intermittent Random Stalling Issue Help

If your BMW is randomly stalling out, it is dangerous to your safety on the road, and it must be resolved ASAP. Here are some of the common reasons why your BMW might be exhibiting stalling issues. The fuel pump is faulty and needs to be replaced. 2. The crank position sensor is faulty and needs to be replaced. This is common on older classic cars such as the E30, E32, E34 and E36. But it can also present as an issue on modern cars like the E39, E46. 3. One of the most difficult to diagnose stalling issues is when the intake camshaft position sensor is beginning to fail. This part will fail very slowly overtime, and will not always throw a service engine light with stored code. This makes diagnosis next to impossible. This stalling happens in slow speed such as coming to a stop sign or slow drives around a shopping center parking lot, for example. If your BMW is showing these symptoms of intermittent stalling, with no trouble codes present, it …

BMW Random Stalling Issue Solved!

Over the past seven months or so, I’ve had an intermittent issue with my E39 where it randomly stalls at slow speed. Thankfully the issue only happened a few times spread out over several months. The difficult part about this issue was that the service engine light never came on and provided codes as a starting point for diagnosis of the issue. I suspected that either the camshaft position sensors were starting to fail, or that the MAF was starting to fail. Both were very plausible considering the symptoms and original mileage on those parts, which is 135,000 miles.