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Old 10-21-2010, 12:15 AM   #2
Manolito

Name: Manolito
Title: Member
Status: Offline
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Sacramento
Rate My Car: 337 / 340
Your Ride: (2) '97 328s; '04 330; '04 325iT
Um - is there fuel in the tank?
This sounds like a sarcastic question but it is really not. You have two fuel tanks with a jet pump between them to transfer fuel. Your gas guage may say you have a quarter tank, but there may be no fuel at all in the passenger side tank where the fuel pump is.

If the car starts when you add fuel to the tank, that is your problem.

The jet pump may fail to work because it is old and cracked, because it has literally fallen out of its hole when you hit a big bump, or because the fuel filter is plugged and there is not enough fuel coming back from the engine to make the jet pump work. Replace the fuel filter and see if that helps.
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