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01-09-2012, 07:47 PM | #1 |
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Fuel Pump Failure
I bought a 2009 Yaris and now it has about 80,000 miles on it.
Last year I had about several gallons in my tank based on the dashboard and my car runs out of fuel and I have to call Toyota towing service to put some fuel in my car and then it starts to run just fine. Didn't consider calling Toyota to take a look at the dashboard to see if its reporting the right fuel levels. A year later, I'm driving to Vegas and I get 3 bars on my dashboard but my car suddenly stops again! Refueled and it started to work again. Now I'm curious as to why the dashboard fuel indicator is not showing the correct levels. However, I didnt bring it in to service, thinking they'd probably charge me just to diagnose it and that I probably bought some bad fuel or that it was the road conditions?. Finally, today I'm on the highway the car just breaks down and won't start. I finally get it towed into the dealership and I get charged an $800 bill for a new fuel pump and sending unit. I am killing myself right now because I just passed the warranty limit on my mileage. My question is, whoose fault is it originally that the car would report 2 bars but run out out fuel? Do I have a chance to sue Toyota for selling me bad parts that ultimately failed me later which I had to pay for? |
01-09-2012, 07:59 PM | #2 |
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You bought a car from toyota, not a bad part. I always rely on the trip odometer to keep track of fuel usage as a safe backup...
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01-09-2012, 08:04 PM | #3 |
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Are you telling me that I cant rely on a computerized dashboard? Hello! It's 2012 chips are everywhere. What kind of world would we live in if computer chips gave us inaccurate information and we were to rely in manual data entry.
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01-09-2012, 08:55 PM | #4 |
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Resistive fuel senders can be affected by impurities in gasoline, so it would be difficult to prove that it was a manufacturing defect.
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01-12-2012, 10:44 AM | #5 |
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800 dollars for a fuel pump is crazy. How can it cost that much?
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01-12-2012, 10:59 AM | #6 |
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Fuel pump lists for $327 and the sender for $80, so the rest must have been labor.
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01-12-2012, 07:59 PM | #7 |
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we have seen a few Yarii with FP issues. the first was DEFINITELY the sender; there was no fuel in the car and it was reporting 2 or 3 bars. The second was the pump gone bad. Not super common, but fuel pumps usually aren't with toyotas.
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08-06-2012, 12:23 PM | #8 |
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08-06-2012, 12:52 PM | #9 |
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^ Access to the pump in the Yaris is through the floor in the back. I think they have to remove the rear seat, maybe six bolts?
hey Scott, I'm sure it's standard protocol to change both, but couldn't they just change the sender (the cheaper part @ $80) and see if that fixed it? Sure doesn't seem like a fuel pump that failed.
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I doubt a fuel gauge would tell you you had gas when you didnt. But anything is possible. But to answer your question NO you cannot trust the fuel gauge. Not with your life or in an emergency. As a private pilot no one trusts the fuel gauges. Before takeoff you are required to take the cap off the fuel tanks and look in there to make sure you has gas because if you dont and the engine quits on takeoff you probably die.
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08-06-2012, 03:14 PM | #11 |
i would have to say its your fault for not bringing it in to have the fuel sender repaired or replaced when you first had the problem, running the car very low or out of fuel is more than likely what caused the pump to fail, fuel pumps will heat up quickly when there is no fuel to cool them. running out of fuel a few times can generate enough heat to melt the small wire that the pump motor is made out of.
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08-06-2012, 06:06 PM | #12 | |
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And I agree with Garm, why cant they just replace the sender and see if that fixes the problem?
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08-06-2012, 08:05 PM | #13 |
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The labor to replace the sender and then later replace the pump probably isn't worth it to do two rounds. Also, they two items in question have completely different functions, so diagnosing whether both or just the sender are bad is pretty easy.
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I have a 2007 Yaris went on my way home from St. Louis Missouri about a 2 hour drive from where I live. The car starts to slow down on me and when I give it gas nothing happens was able to drive it for several miles before the engine light comes on and then it stops all together. I had to be towed home and since i was over the warranty I took it to a local dealer which had told me that the timing chain had probably went out because there was oil all over the engine. I didn't have the money to have a new engine put in so it has set for 2 years and now have decided to take it repaired. Took to different person and he has checked out the engine and timing belt is fine and the engine is good. But still can't get fuel to make it go. Does anyone know what the problem could be. What could be blocking the fuel?
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