I was on my way to work this morning after not having the car cut out on me for a day, but unfortunately, on the 15km stretch from my house to my work, my car died on my three times.

This got me very upset. Upon arriving at work, I did some reaserch, and I discovered the MB road side assistance number thanx to one of the posts here.

Since it is a free service, I gave them a try.

There was no hold time at all, which was amazing, cause that's what good customer service is all about.

I had to provide some information to a nice lady, she suggest a few options, and then she passed me onto Danny who was the mechanic in charge at that time, also no wait time.

I told Danny what my problem was, that the car dies on me without warning, at anytime and refuses to restart for a few minutes, Danny said that this looks like a fuel issue, and that it is very possible that the fuel pump relay is overheating, or that one of the temp sensors is giving an incorrect reading which causes the fuel to shut off to prevent damage to the car.

I also mentioned the ignition and he said that the ignition module will work as long as it works, but if it goes, it goes for good, so there is no need to consider it as a factor in this problem which takes a lot of weight off my chest since that part costs a fortune, well for now at least.

Amazignly enough, I am tempted to think that the bypass on the fuel pump which was done on my car before I bought it was done because of the same problem I am having now. I guess what I can try is to jump the fuel pump relay for the drive home and see what happens, after all, I put the fuel pump relay back into work, and it worked well for a while, maybe I should just get a new one and see what happens then.

Anyway, for now I'm gonna go and pull it ouf of my car and see if there is any signs of heat damage or anything like that, any signs of something out of the order.

I was wondering if anyone had a similar experiance, just to confirm my findings.

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