S2Steve

My fuel gauge has started lying to me, i ran out of petrol on sunday because of it and its not telling the turth since then. Anyone got any ideas?

picky775

fooked sender or sticking

S2Steve

Wheres the sender? And do you mean the needle sticking?

SteveW

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The fuel gague sender is in the petrol tank, mine lies to me aswel but havent got round to looking at it yet. When mine shows a quarter on the needle the car starts to cough and splutter and cuts out.

Dicko&Vacant

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my s2 did the same, ran out with 1/4 a tank left

tomhs123

My old one did exactly the same thing!

S2Steve

Yer, and now it seems to sayis its got 3/4 of a tank constantly, it didnt move over about 75miles yesterday!

JamboRS

wait till its empty,take of needle on fuel gauge on speedo and reset to in the red,sorted

S2Steve

That means running out of petrol somewhere!

JamboRS

drain the fuel into a jerry can,sort needle,put fuel back in

picky775

Wht dont you just take sender out of the tank,put ignition lights on then drop sender to bottom,check were needle is then lift sender up and check if its on full tank on needle if not take needle off drop sender and put needle onto empty then lift sender then needle should rise to full

S2Steve

Sounds rather complicated, how easy is it to get into the tank?

picky775

you will have to drop the tank down then turn the ring that holds the sender in to get the sender out.Its realy easy to test gauge to sender.Once sender is out,the arm on it has a plastic bubble on it that floats in the tank,hence giving you your fuel reading on the gauge.Plug the wireing back into the sender keeping the sender the right way up (as if it was still in the tank) let the arm hang down,turn ignition to the second click so your bat light comes on etc,then your fuel gauge should fall to empty,if it doesnt then take needle off and place back on empty.Once you have done that lift the arm of sender as high as it will go now the fuel gauge needle should read a full tank if not then the copper on sender is probably worn out so need a new sender.hope this helps.