Quote Originally Posted by FWP! View Post
You mention you ran the car out of gas, it is possible the low pressure fuel pump overheated (the one in the tank). Or, the pump could have picked up some junk in the bottom of the tank, clogging up the pre-filter (or damaging the internals of the pump). I'd be checking to make sure the fuel pressure is sufficient going up to the high pressure pumps, which can be done with VAG COM. The issues describe sound familiar to problems other people have had and it was solved by replacing either the in-tank fuel pump, or the high pressure fuel pumps.
I don't think that low fuel pressure will cause the EPC light to come on.