state police behind me and got towed, yay love fuel starve!

cossie1600

Last night my wife was out, I decided to take the dogs to my friend's place to hang out. As I came off a highway off-ramp (sharp right hand U turn), car suddenly cut out and I had to coast to a stop at the shoulder. Despite numerous attempts , the car refused to start backup. I had about a 1/4 in the tank and 6 LED on the fuel gauge before it happened. Of course once the fuel sloshed to the other side, my gauge was showing 2 LEDs. I must have tried to start the car at least 40 times in the next 15 minutes, yet the car just refused to do so. After sitting for about 10 minutes, I decided to call AAA to have them tow me to a gas station. When they offered to bring gas, I declined because I needed at least 10-15 gallons. Just as I got off the phone with AAA, the state police came and got behind me with his lights up. He proceeded to help me rush the tow truck driver to the scene. While we were waiting, I was explaining him the situation. He was just puzzled at how a nice looking sports car can have a design flaw this big. He was great and he waited with me until the tow truck driver came. There were at least 200-300 cars that had passed me during that time, everyone probably thought I got busted for doing something stupid. Well maybe stupid for buying a car that has a design flaw like this, but then I honestly didn't know about it when I bought the car since everyone only complained about oil temp.

Anyway, the tow truck driver came. He was able to get me to a gas station relatively quickly. Instead of just dropping the car immediately, he allowed me to fuel up while the car was still on the flatbed. 14 gallons later, car was full and it started on top of the flat bed. He proceeded to lower the vehicle and we were both on our way. The incident ate up 1.5 hours of my time, my dogs were scared $hitless as we were sitting on the side of the road. I was probably seen as that road rage maniac who got busted by the police with the police behind me flashing his light. This all happened with 5 gallons of gas in the car.

Moral of the story, don't let the car run down past 3/4 of a tank as fuel starvation can happen at any points lower. If you are lucky, car will pick right back up (which I have had happened many times in the past). Yet if you are unlucky like me, you will end up seeing your car on the back of a flatbed in front of a cop getting towed away.


Please do all Z owners a favor, report the fuel starvation issue to the NHTSA. Hopefully if enough people bitches, NHTSA will look into it and perhaps issue a recall. There is currently no fix for it right now short of replacing the gas tank or keep filling it up all the way.

https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/

If my wife wasn't pregnant, I would be shopping for another vehicle today. I love the car, but some of these stupid problems just drive me insane