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Stranded! For the very first time.
Well, after 11 Years, 51 weeks and almost 238,000 miles my Passat stranded me for the first time today.
I was in a parking lot close to home doing the "wait for a space" thing when the car just stopped running.
It's definitely a fuel issue, the motor cranks fine and all the electrical "stuff" works.
Hopefully it's a simple thing like a clogged filter and not a pump failure or worse.
Meanwhile the flatbed tow will be at least $125 and the rental (a Chevy HHR - not too bad, but VERY "American") will be about $42 per day ($35 plus 19.625%tax(!)).
Sometimes ya just can't win.
I was in a parking lot close to home doing the "wait for a space" thing when the car just stopped running.
It's definitely a fuel issue, the motor cranks fine and all the electrical "stuff" works.
Hopefully it's a simple thing like a clogged filter and not a pump failure or worse.
Meanwhile the flatbed tow will be at least $125 and the rental (a Chevy HHR - not too bad, but VERY "American") will be about $42 per day ($35 plus 19.625%tax(!)).
Sometimes ya just can't win.
Re: It's Baaack! .... and it was the Fuel pump.
I don't recall my Mercury Sable ever stranding me in the 16-17 yrs I had it, but it was critically injured on the way home from LK (lost all coolant on NJ Turnpike traffic jam, head gasket ruined).
My first war was jinxed: died 3x on the BQE (elevated highyway with NO shoulders)