Quote Originally Posted by H3_VX View Post
...oh, lastly, would a mechanic lie about such repair even considering its a big job with a lot of work entailed? It seems he'd try to fix it in an easier fashion. Also considering this is a busy shop. Just wondering. Fwiw, this shop fixed other problems I've had with my vx in cheaper fashion, which makes me believe they honestly know I need said fuel pump replaced.
Let's just say that it wouldn't be the first time in history that an auto repair shop told a customer that their vehicle needed an extensive repair knowing that the problem was actually an easy/quick fix, then charged a lot of labor costs even though hardly any time at all was involved in making the repair.

Quote Originally Posted by H3_VX View Post
...lol, you guys will be annoyed by me 2night, but the tech also mentioned that my bad fuel pump contributes to my high idle, which was one problem they lessened recently for me. Is that true?
The problem I personally see with that statement is that if the fuel pump was contributing to a high idle problem, there's really nothing else in the fuel system that could have been adjusted/"lessened" recently except for your throttle linkage. The paranoid side of me is starting to think that they didn't diagnose the root cause of the problem correctly the last time they "lessened" the symptoms you were experiencing, and are now trying cover their previous work by suggesting that a new fuel pump was what was needed all along, because if anything, it seems that an electric fuel pump that's failing would cause the idle to be lower, not higher. At least that diagnosis seems counter-intuitive to me anyway.