330i stalled twice yesterday

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NateS

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I was participating in a Boy Scout volunteer function yesterday, I drove my 2004 330i (7,000 miles on it) very slowly through the neighborhoods as my son delivered bags to houses. After our work was done, we went to a place, had lunch, when I left, driving through the parking lot slowly, I made a right hand turn and the car died. It restarted right away. I drove over to the gas station, topped off my tank (no I was not out of gas) drove away slowly through the parking lot and again the car stalled.

I have not had any problems at all (except a few rough starts once in a while) with the car....she runs beautifully...except for this....any ideas.

Is this related to that RPM issue perhaps?

Appreciate any ideas...

[screwy]
 
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Was she cold? I've noticed that whenever my 2000 328Ci (58,000 miles) is cold

she idles rough for the first few miles/minutes and would occasionaly shut of

while idling. Also did the RPM's drop to around 500 before she died?
 
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I've heard of the E46s dying when making turns. Not sure why that would be happening, though, since the engine computer should compensate for the usual things that would cause a car to stall when turning.

I assume there were no warning lights when it happened or afterwards? If it really bothers you or continues, you could take it to your dealer, but they probably won't be able to reproduce it or figure out what caused it.
 
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jrt67ss350 said:
I've heard of the E46s dying when making turns. Not sure why that would be happening, though, since the engine computer should compensate for the usual things that would cause a car to stall when turning.

I assume there were no warning lights when it happened or afterwards? If it really bothers you or continues, you could take it to your dealer, but they probably won't be able to reproduce it or figure out what caused it.
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Yes! On turns. That was my camshaft sensor. The in-take one. Some peole call this the VANOS I think. Maybe you got a faulty one since you don't have many miles. Mine went at about 105,000 miles.

Nate, don't forget to let us know what it was in the end.
 
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Results from the dealer

Thanks for all your replies,

The car was warm when it happened and I had no lights when it died, it just cut off...seemed like it might be electrical.

I took it in on Friday to the dealer, got my oil changed and my wheels rotated and I had them hook it up to their diagnostic tool, it showed a couple of small anomilies but nothing related to it stalling, so nothing from the dealer.....

It has not done it since and I can't re-create the problem, I guess I'll just hope it was a quirk that day and it doesn't happen again.

I keep the VANOS intake idea in my head, I sure hope it's not that, the car is too new for something like that....

Thanks again.
 
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aNoodle said:
Yes! On turns. That was my camshaft sensor. The in-take one. Some peole call this the VANOS I think. Maybe you got a faulty one since you don't have many miles. Mine went at about 105,000 miles.

Nate, don't forget to let us know what it was in the end.
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Wow! I had the exact same thing happened when pulling into a parking spot and making a wide right turn. The car just died. It started immediately and never happened again. Sure enough, about a week or two later, it was a faulty cam sensor. Hasn't happended since.
 
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