SInce 11/15, my last post, it had been running fine with no problem. Then last week, on the way to work, it must have died / restarted 3-4 times in about 20 minutes, I turned around and drove home.
I figured it wasn't the ovp, since it was just restarting (a few times asap, a couple after a couple of minutes
).... After reading some of the responses, and doing some diagnosis, I changed to fuel pressure regulator and went ahead and changed the fuel filter ( I thought they were good, per my maintainance manual, for 60K miles) with 94K miles on the car, the fuel filter had been changed at 60K miles and the fuel pres reg at about 85K miles (6 months ago!!)....
So far so good, no problem.
As I mentioned before, I do idle quite a bit.. traffic shouldn't be an issue, as it is stop and go... but sometimes, at lunch time in particular, I might have to do some paperwork or just chill, I go start up the car, sit in the a/c for an hour.... I have stopped doing that, maybe the heat in the engine fried the fuel pressure regulator, maybe my "theory" previously mentoined about the fuelt filter, I don't know.....
Looking at it as an "enthusiast"... the prior OVP's were caused by the water leaking (but a real POS, when the fuse doesn't blow, but the whole thing blows), the first fuel pressure reg 6 months ago, maybe a fluke.... and this time, maybe for whatever reason. So if you eliminate the "wet" ovp's... its only been the 2 fuel pressure regs... Oh god I am accepting this, LOL
12-07-2004, 09:07 PM
Hybrid Mode
