I have been taking my car back and forth to the dealer for this same rumbling noise/hisitation for the past half year. Finally I was rolling down the highway at 70mph in a nice 80 degree day when all of a sudden the car just quit. I was coming back from church with my pregnant wife and 2 year old girl. I had to pull over and stop. The car would start but would not catch idle, so I had to leave my wife and kid on the highway, and run to find help in my church clothes. I crossed two creeks, jumped a fence, climbed rocks, over a wooden beam, and walk across a large aprking lot after running about a mile on the highway to get to a nearby church. It was an adventure to say the least.
Well now the dealer says the car is running even though he said the tech did hear a wierd noise (laboring fuel pump) when he started it. They cannot duplicate the problem. I will not take this POS back again until it is fixed. I cannot let me ar especially my family drive, or ride in the Ford in disquise. What can I do? I have 59K miles and an extended warranty. So far the warranty is only worth the free tow to the dealer. I am even more pissed because the dealer knew there was something wrong before but because they couldn't find it my vulnerable family and I were stuck on the side of the road anyway. My wife is due any day now, and if this had happend while her water broke I would be on this six o'clock new today. If they have to duplicate it to fix it, it may not duplicate it again for a month. I will turn the POS in by Friday if they don't fix it. I had better reliability in my 88 mr2 which I traded in for this so-called reliable Japanese POS. Unless things change Subaru

 

It's an 02 wrx.

 

The closest dealer is in North Detroit (100 miles), and I don't trust the car to get home, let known Detroit. I think I should try the lemon law.