06.24
The repair shop called… no fuel was flowing so they suspect a bad fuel pump.
Suspect?
They want to also replace the fuel filter (not a bad idea) and some relay that works with the fuel pump… because they smelled an electrical smell when they were in there.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
While waiting for my ride, I thought I smelled an “electrical” smell too, so much so that I mentally toyed for a bit about the story-telling potential of the car bursting into flames… but the the smell passed. I assumed it was someone driving by.
So, yeah, replace the electrical smelling relay. But if the relay is bad… then the pump should be fine, right? Or conversly, if the pump is bad why would the relay be bad? How could one cause the other to fail? That’s like you breaking a finger on a light switch because the light burned out.
Also in my experience electrical parts tend to fail en mass from a greater cause, so is this indicative of a greater electrical problem?
Whatever, just fix it… it’ll give me time to shop for something else that wont strand my ass on the freeway or burst into electrical smelling flames.
Oh and the best part: one of the parts (which part I don’t remember) won’t be in until Tuesday. The main reason I took the can to the dealer was I’m tired of “we have to order the part…” runaround you get from non-dealer shops.
