Hi Guys,


New member here, just wondered if I could get some advice please?

Wednesday evening I had to call out the AA as my car wouldn't start, or should I say restart. I started up to leave work, reversed out of a space and my engine conked out. I tried to restart it, nothing. Tried bump start then finally concluded (with help) that the starter motor and battery were ok. The AA man found it was the fuel pump. He ended up hitting it/the fuel tank and it came back to life.
I was then told it could go again at any time and would need to be replaced, so he followed me to my local garage and I left it there. Neither him nor me thought it would be too much. The garage looked at it yesterday and can't find a fault with it after test I asked for a quote to get it replaced - around £400 inc VAT and labour.

Does that sound about right? Could it have been a blockage in the fuelline etc? I haven't got that much to spend right now and if I'm honest I'm a little nervous about it going again. Most of my 15 mile journey to (and so from) work is 60 or 50mph A-roads. I've not come across any reports of similar cases anywhere.

Any suggestions, comments please guys would be very much appreciated.

Thank you

Grey Fox