Fuel Gauge

bighairypict · Post by **bighairypict** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:45 pm

Anyone noticed a fuel gauge that seems sticky after filling up?

Any other time it seems responsive enough - goes down steadily while driving, drops to the bottom when the ignition switch goes off, comes back up to where it came from when switching back on but after refueling it starts pretty much where it was before and only creeps up slowly.

Is this any indication of problems to come or nothing I should worry about?

madmile · Post by **madmile** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:54 pm

Are you sure it goes down when ignition switched off - I thought it stayed put at all times. Also it should be very slow to respond due to the damping built in.

dandywarhol · Post by **dandywarhol** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:04 am

Sounds like a dodgy earth. Under the middle seats carpet you'll find a removable panel, under that is the sender unit. Make up a seperate earth and attach it to a sound earth point nearby and the job's a carrot

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:38 am

Mine doesn't drop with the ignition off either....

bighairypict · Post by **bighairypict** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:21 pm

Right enough, now that I have looked at it more closely it is the temp gauge that drops when I turn off.

Put fuel in this afternoon but the needle took a few miles to go up from where it had been before.

haydn callow · Post by **haydn callow** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:29 pm

perfectly normal

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:56 am

It does take a while to kick in bighairy...Glad its not just mine, must be a bongo thing...

bighairypict · Post by **bighairypict** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:35 pm

It seems we are all still learning about this vehicle, Bigdaddy

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I would conclude this is, as Haydn commented, "perfectly normal" $\:D/$

Thanks for the replies folks

now on to the next discovered quirk.....