elbeau
New Member
2007 Expedition XLS
88k miles
1 owner / no accidents...kind of...see below
The other day while my fuel warning was reading 32 miles to empty, the engine stalled, then it wouldn't start for a minute or two, then it started right up. When it stalled there was no hesitation or anything like it was starving for fuel, but I assumed the miles-to-empty calculation was wrong so I drove straight to a station and filled up, hoping the problem wouldn't occur.
A few days later my wife was stopped at a light (with a full tank of gas this time). When the light turned green she pushed the gas pedal and the engine shut off immediately. She put on her hazards and was trying to start it when the driver two cars behind her mistook her gas pedal for her brake pedal and caused a 3 car accident. The pickup in the middle ran into our ball hitch and the impact caused the engine to fire right up...I know...wierd.
What is going on? I suspect a fuel pump but I don't want to spend to fix it without knowing that it's not something else that I can fix myself. Has this happened to anybody else? Any ideas or suggestions besides the fuel pump?
P.S. this is off-topic but mildly entertaining: The guy in the pickup that was in the middle of the accident had rear-ended another ball hitch less than a week ago. He was polite to my wife, but EXTREMELY frustrated about losing accidents to ball hitches so he called his insurance company to see if it was legal to leave a ball hitch on your vehicle in Texas. I loved their reply, they told him it was the best thing you could do!
88k miles
1 owner / no accidents...kind of...see below
The other day while my fuel warning was reading 32 miles to empty, the engine stalled, then it wouldn't start for a minute or two, then it started right up. When it stalled there was no hesitation or anything like it was starving for fuel, but I assumed the miles-to-empty calculation was wrong so I drove straight to a station and filled up, hoping the problem wouldn't occur.
A few days later my wife was stopped at a light (with a full tank of gas this time). When the light turned green she pushed the gas pedal and the engine shut off immediately. She put on her hazards and was trying to start it when the driver two cars behind her mistook her gas pedal for her brake pedal and caused a 3 car accident. The pickup in the middle ran into our ball hitch and the impact caused the engine to fire right up...I know...wierd.
What is going on? I suspect a fuel pump but I don't want to spend to fix it without knowing that it's not something else that I can fix myself. Has this happened to anybody else? Any ideas or suggestions besides the fuel pump?
P.S. this is off-topic but mildly entertaining: The guy in the pickup that was in the middle of the accident had rear-ended another ball hitch less than a week ago. He was polite to my wife, but EXTREMELY frustrated about losing accidents to ball hitches so he called his insurance company to see if it was legal to leave a ball hitch on your vehicle in Texas. I loved their reply, they told him it was the best thing you could do!
