well, today, my father was sitting in my car, without the keys in the ignition, and he puts it into reverse. I hear noise....

crawled under the back of the car, touched the fuel pump, it was vibrating... unplugged its power, and the noise stopped. However, it is not the same noise/speed as when i turn the ignition on... but it's still really strange.

i do have problems with my rear light assembly, that i have yet to work out, but i dont think that putting the car in reverse should even remotely turn the fuel pump on....

help?

 

Sounds like you have an earth fault thats finding a path back to earth through the reversing light circuit

look for bare/broken wires in the loom for the pump and the reverse light switch ... I am not 100% certain but they may be on the same part of the loom

 

Dude, you guys refer to the "ground" as "earth"? I don't know why but that just struck me as really odd. haha guess I'm weird.

 

Dude, hes english. If you had of read the "USE OF LANGUAGE" section in you Haynes' Manual. You would of known that.

ehehehehe

j/k

 

I know, I've been to england they use a lot of different terms over there. I did read over that section of the manual, guess I missed the one. I think "bonnet" instead of "hood" is the best

 

a hood is somthing you find on a coat