I think it's pretty silly too, but the situation he described is probably worst
case-
new cars typically don't come with very much fuel in them, and at idle they
aren't going to use much fuel, but the fuel pump has to run the whole time that
the car is idling because it not only is moving fuel from the tank to the
engine, the fuel pump is the component that maintains high pressure for the
injectors to work. So it is sitting there having to maintain pressure for a
long period of time, with no fuel around it, and it isn't actually pumping much
fuel either. That's not justification for it to fail though, since idling
while almost empty is certainly a legitimate use of the vehicle.
> See I have my nice SAAB 9000, same fundamental setup, fuel pump/sender
> in a nice canister in the fuel tank. I regularly run the thing on
> fumes with no fuel pump in 150 k miles. To think that a modern
> vehicle can trash a fuel pump by idling until it runs out of gas is ..
> is... unthinkable. Something is rotten in Denmark..
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