AR stalled on incline???

[Dpowe907]

So every morning I have the exact same routine. As my coffee brews I go outside to walk my husky and start the AR. When I was walking back up my driveway with Cowboy I noticed it was wayyy too quiet. I always listen for the SAI to turn off. Sure enough car was in the on position but had stalled. I tries cranking it over but it just kept sputtering. I also have no lights in the dash and no codes. I threw it in neutral and rolled the car to face the opposite direction. A few cranks and it turned over and ran fine? WTH?!?!!!

Sent from my MB886 using Tapatalk

[4rings2turbos]

Perhaps fuel pump. How many miles and have you ever replaced the pump? They go out all the time around 130k.

Edit: they'll do weird things when they're dying.

[LINDW4LL]

Sounds like fuel pump.

[rogersb6]

My AR does this when it is low on fuel and the nose is pointed uphill. I used to have a very steep uphill driveway I would park on, whenever I was below 1/8 tank, it wouldn't start until I let it roll back to a more level surface.

When you consider that the fuel tank looks like this:

http://www.trinicenter.com/img/audifueltank.jpg

It's not too hard to imagine where the fuel level is.

[Dpowe907]

Wow your exactly right. Is there anyway to fix this besides the obvious? I don't normally let my tank get low but that's concerning...If I were to park downtown on a hill in between two cars...would be quite the problem.

Sent from my MB886 using Tapatalk

[Dpowe907]

I have 140k on the dash and I'm not exactly sure if its been changed before.

Sent from my MB886 using Tapatalk

[4rings2turbos]

If you find that you're still having issues after maintaining a more full tank I might suggest picking up a new pump and keeping it handy. They're very easy to swap in 30 minutes or so the first time you do it, as long as you have less than 1/2 tank. More than that and gas gets everywhere when you open up the hatch.

Spending a couple hundred can help you from being stranded or waiting on the FedEx driver for a couple days.

[Sparkstack]

Agree with the above. They last a long time but fail with little warning. Change the filter also.