Hi folks. Thanks for all your help over the years. Right now, my car is running remarkable smoothly, and that's all I'm going to say about that!

It had the fuel pump surprise at about 90,000 miles and 10 years.

Since then, fuel pump has run without issues.

But at 140,000 miles and 14 years on the second pump, am I on borrowed time? Or were replacement pumps more reliable?




I dont run the tank to the last drop, and lately I have a Battery Tender on it since it driven every five to seven days. I ve read about parasites hurting pumps.

I religiously use high octane fuel.

Are fuel treatments good or bad for pumps?; Seafoam, TechTron or B 44, formally known as BG 44K?

Replace if you can or leave it alone? Use only a certain brand of pump? Change the fuel filter for now and leave the pump as it is?

All advice welcome! Thanks.

 

I have no trust whatsoever in any kind of additives. Maybe I just don't know enough about them.
I just trust brand-name fuel stations to add those kinds of additives into their fuel at the bowser (Austr. slang for "fuel station"), which are good, thus I don't have to add anything.
I don't think there is much of a quality difference between OE and replacement pumps.
Obviously, when you put a new pump into your tank ensure 2 things:
1. The fuel in your tank is not old, as that would immediately destroy any new pump (but as you replaced the pump 14 years ago, that was obviously OK, when you replaced the pump 14 years ago).
2. make sure the filter is installed at where the pump sucks in the fuel (but that was obviously also done correctly in your case 14 years ago.

Other than that, the golden rule is: Don't touch it, if it is not broken.

But if you want to do something good to your car, which is fuel related: Replace the fuel filter...