Ira Chandler
12-09-2003, 21:04
My daughter (30 yr old) drove my 2001 truck (see below, 28,000+ miles) on the Interstate, and three times last Thursday (50F degree day), while running 65-80, the pedal became unresponsive, the engine dropped to idle, and she had to pull over. The engine never stopped. A couple of minutes at the side of road, everything was back to normal. SES light was on when she returned the truck.
I had started using the block heater again and generally plug in when I park at night to be ready for the morning. We often get down to 20F here in North Georgia.
I drove the truck to the dealer the next day without any problem, other than it seeming to stick in third at about 2800 RPM till I let off the pedal (wanna say "gas") - once.
They found two codes in history, one "fuel temp" and one "overpressure on turbo." This is basically a stock, well-maintained truck. Fuel filter had about 10K on it, oil was changed 5K ago. The "change oil" message had been coming up because I did the last oil change myself. Nothing else weird. I checked the fuel cooler in front of the tank and it is clean.
I had the fuel filter changed (without inspecting it, as I now read I should be doing), oil & filter changed, and they sent me on my way. Truck is running fine on the way home and around today.
The day was not cold enough for the fuel to have gelled, though it was on a 1/4 tank when this happened. My son was in the truck and saw it happen, so I know she is not TOO crazy...
Any ideas, or has this happened to anyone else???
(sorry for length of post)
I had started using the block heater again and generally plug in when I park at night to be ready for the morning. We often get down to 20F here in North Georgia.
I drove the truck to the dealer the next day without any problem, other than it seeming to stick in third at about 2800 RPM till I let off the pedal (wanna say "gas") - once.
They found two codes in history, one "fuel temp" and one "overpressure on turbo." This is basically a stock, well-maintained truck. Fuel filter had about 10K on it, oil was changed 5K ago. The "change oil" message had been coming up because I did the last oil change myself. Nothing else weird. I checked the fuel cooler in front of the tank and it is clean.
I had the fuel filter changed (without inspecting it, as I now read I should be doing), oil & filter changed, and they sent me on my way. Truck is running fine on the way home and around today.
The day was not cold enough for the fuel to have gelled, though it was on a 1/4 tank when this happened. My son was in the truck and saw it happen, so I know she is not TOO crazy...
Any ideas, or has this happened to anyone else???
(sorry for length of post)