08-29-2016, 11:14 PM | #1 |
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Some of may have seen on Facebook that the Jaguar finally let me down. I was out Sunday to run some errands, got a few miles from my house and stopped at a red light. When it turned green and I started moving, it felt like it didn't make power, but it got me through the intersection and up to 40mph like a normal person. A couple moments later, I gave it some gas. Revs went up, but it wasn't really moving.
I decided to head home, which meant turning left at the next light. I was the second car in line with a red light. Light turned green and I barely made it into the intersection (what I was afraid was going to happen) before it stalled. It restarted, barely, and immediately stumbled and stalled again. A woman quickly helped me push it out of the intersection. I called AAA, a truck got there in 20 minutes and maybe 50 minutes from the initial stall, the Jaguar was back in my driveway. A couple weeks ago, I drove it to Altoona and back one evening without incident, turning it off and starting three times along the way (gas, when I got where I was going, pee break on the way back). Parked in the garage when I got home. The next morning, it didn't start, so I took the other car to work. When I got home, it started right up and I moved it from garage to driveway. Yesterday was the first time I started/drove it since. While waiting for the tow, I tried starting it a few times. It started twice, but couldn't hold idle. My first thought is fuel pump, which is cool, since I'll need to drop the 1/4 full tank (kinda glad I didn't stop for gas before it stalled) and ieven then, it looks like getting to it, which is above the differential, is a bitch. Internet research suggests a slight possibility it could be an ECU thing and switching between open and closed loop. If that's the case, unhooking battery for a few minutes might solve it. If it starts again, I should drive up the street and back a few times and log the fuel trims (if I can).
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08-29-2016, 11:36 PM | #2 |
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Not sure it would've revved up and not gone anywhere if it was fuel related. Sounds like this is going to be a fun one.
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08-30-2016, 08:45 AM | #3 |
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Based on my experience from a month ago w/ the e46 fuel pump failure, I'd think fuel pump. Sounds similar to my FML experience on the side of the road
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Everything similar to what happened that I've found googling and jaguarforums.com'ing has been fixed by replacing the fuel pump, relay and/or filter or resetting the ECU by disconnecting the battery for a bit (or an ECU reflash when the cars were new-ish). Assuming it's the pump, part that makes it "fun" is the relative inaccessibility of the fuel pump. It sounds like there's an easy-ish way to do it without dropping the tank (or fully dropping it) with some special tools, but you can't see what you're doing and the impression I get is you shouldn't bother with them if you haven't done the tank dropping way so you know what parts are where and how they move around. After I diagnose a bit more, if I think it's the pump, I'm actually going to call a couple shops for an estimate and figure it out from there. The part is either around $130 or $250 (mid-year part change and not sure which side the VIN falls on), another $30ish for a new fuel filter. Figure I'm charged 3-4 hours labor at a shop at about $100/hr vs an all weekend adventure that probably includes a big fuel spill in my driveway?
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08-30-2016, 10:58 AM | #5 |
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are there any good jag forums to search?
nevermind, didn't read your last paragraph
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08-30-2016, 11:45 AM | #6 |
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Hope it's cheap and/or easy. I'm still kind of amazed my 1M (N54) fuel pump hasn't died yet. Once it does, I'm sure it will do it in the Holland Tunnel or someplace equally convenient.
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Why? Do N54s or 1ers have shitty fuel pumps? Or are you confusing the shitty electric water pump that dies between 30 and 70k miles?
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The N54 HPFP fiasco went on for years. I think there might have even been a class-action suit.
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08-30-2016, 01:30 PM | #10 |
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Right, sorry was thinking the lp pump in the tank. I've had my hpfp replaced on the n54 (twice maybe?)
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