I have a 2001 Ford Taurus SE with about 100,000 miles.\u00a0 Recently, I’ve started having some problems.\u00a0 It starts absolutely fine when the engine is cold.\u00a0 After I drive for awhile, if I stop the engine to run in for a short errand, it starts, cranks, and then sounds like it is struggle, and dies.\u00a0 If I wait another 15 to 30 minutes, it starts fine again.\u00a0 Once it’s going, it runs fine with no problems.\u00a0 Codes were checked and they come up clear.\u00a0 This all started the same day that I stopped at a different gas station to fill up.<\/p>\n
My local mechanic has said that he thinks the problem is the fuel pump and the repair will cost about $1000.\u00a0 Does this sound legitimate or does it sound like the problem\u00a0is\u00a0something else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have a 2001 Ford Taurus SE with about 100,000 miles.\u00a0 Recently, I’ve started having some problems.\u00a0 It starts absolutely fine when the engine is cold.\u00a0 After I drive for awhile, if I stop the engine to run in for a short errand, it starts, cranks, and then sounds like it is struggle, and dies.\u00a0… Read More »2001 Ford Taurus – sometimes hard to start<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}