[quote=mrobinso]My car: 2004 Limited, 68,500 miles

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you find yourself in a similar situation as described above, safely pull over (its even fine to leave your flashers on, they should still work!) and wait for the engine to cool off. When the Crankshaft Position Sensor fails, it is due to temperature. As the engine heats up the Sensor will RANDOMLY fail and shut down causing the engine to stall. Let the engine cool down and restart the engine.
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If you sit and wait for this sensor to work you may be in for a long wait. I have had them go and they never come back to life, kaput, gonzo, bye bye. Maybe sometimes they do work intermittently but not any of mine.
To say they failed because they got hot is not true at all, they work in an area that gets hot so they should work all the time at that temperature. You had it work for a week, it got hot then and did not fail. It failed because it had a weakness in it. The heat may have made the weakness more pronounced but it did not cause the weakness, big difference.