TheEdgeofSanity
09-06-2011, 01:47 PM
so, its been awhile. hello to those who remember me and hello to all of you who don't!
my car is still going with nearly 160,000 on the clock but I don't trust it too much anymore!
for over a year now, I've been having an issue where I will notice for a few days that my car seems to stutter when going up hills after driving for 30 minutes or more. After a few days of this getting consistently worse, it will finally start dying. It usually cuts in and out a few times then the rpms slowly drop and it dies. no codes being thrown or anything. If I try restarting the car, it may spit and sputter but won't start. If I leave it alone with the ignition off for 10-15 minutes, it will fire back up like nothing ever happened. I can drive around a minimum of 30 miles and it will do it again. Some other info includes that I always keep my fuel above 1/2 tank and I run chevron techron fuel system cleaner through my car religiously every 10,000 miles. I use good quality gas from stations that my parents get fuel from and never had any issues with.
The car will keep doing this process until I take it in for service. The first time, I had my fuel filter changed and my throttle position sensor changed. Mechanic said it was in all parameters for fuel pressure and he could not get it to die on his test run. It was fine for 6 months with no symptoms, then exact same thing happened again. Took it to another mechanic who also could not get it to do this (it seems to only happen on 50+ mile trips or in heavy traffic shorter trips) and he changed the fuel filter too. Both mechanics said my fuel pump is fine because when fuel pumps go out, they just go out and never start working again. I am at a loss. Someone suggested it may be related to the FPR but idk. please help if you had this issue and resolved it!
I forgot to say that the whole reason I am mentioning this is because it is happening again and I don't know what else to do than change the fuel pump which is big $$$ that I don't have!
my car is still going with nearly 160,000 on the clock but I don't trust it too much anymore!
for over a year now, I've been having an issue where I will notice for a few days that my car seems to stutter when going up hills after driving for 30 minutes or more. After a few days of this getting consistently worse, it will finally start dying. It usually cuts in and out a few times then the rpms slowly drop and it dies. no codes being thrown or anything. If I try restarting the car, it may spit and sputter but won't start. If I leave it alone with the ignition off for 10-15 minutes, it will fire back up like nothing ever happened. I can drive around a minimum of 30 miles and it will do it again. Some other info includes that I always keep my fuel above 1/2 tank and I run chevron techron fuel system cleaner through my car religiously every 10,000 miles. I use good quality gas from stations that my parents get fuel from and never had any issues with.
The car will keep doing this process until I take it in for service. The first time, I had my fuel filter changed and my throttle position sensor changed. Mechanic said it was in all parameters for fuel pressure and he could not get it to die on his test run. It was fine for 6 months with no symptoms, then exact same thing happened again. Took it to another mechanic who also could not get it to do this (it seems to only happen on 50+ mile trips or in heavy traffic shorter trips) and he changed the fuel filter too. Both mechanics said my fuel pump is fine because when fuel pumps go out, they just go out and never start working again. I am at a loss. Someone suggested it may be related to the FPR but idk. please help if you had this issue and resolved it!
I forgot to say that the whole reason I am mentioning this is because it is happening again and I don't know what else to do than change the fuel pump which is big $$$ that I don't have!