KIA sorento with a fuelling problem

Blocked high pressure fuel filter
Blocked high pressure fuel filter

This KIA Sorrento was reported by the customer to suddenly cut out while he was driving it.

We suspected straight away that it had some kind of fuelling problem.

Initially we replaced the fuel filter as these are prone to blocking. The customer drove the car and came back about 1 week later with the same fault.

We were still sure that it was a fuelling problem so started to check the filter inside the fuel tank itself.

We found that the high pressure fuel pump inside the tank itself had a pump filter attached to it and was completely clogged up. We cleaned off all the debris from the filter and refitted the components.

We then road tested it - it appeared fine but asked the customer to go on a longer journey. He was happy to report that the fault had been cured and that the car was running fine.