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My fuel guage is terribly inaccurate, if i put fuel in then it reads one thing but then within a mile or two it drops drematically. I know its bad but i only usually fill by £10 fuel at a time and one minute it reads above the red but within a mile or so drops to empty and i have to guess the fuel i have left by the miles i have covered!
Is this a common issue?

The fuel tank is a peculiar shape due to where it is situated (basically behind the seats)




So at low levels it tends to drop quicker than most cars.

also you may find that you get the needle rising after vigorous righthand cornering, this is due to fuel in the section behind the driver sloshing over behind the passenger as the sender is in the large section that sits behind the driver.

Almost totally correct.
The sender is in the passenger side, as I think you intended to write. Unless you're driving a left hand drive, cobber!

Yep, ours wanders when it dips much below a quarter.

I am glad mine is inaccurate

I got 35 miles round the M25 on under red

I was bricking it all the way though

Mine started today to stay stuck down...
What's the matter?
Help!
Thx

You need to isolate where the fault is.
The sender.
the wiring
the gauge.

Sanchez wrote: wrote:

My fuel guage is terribly inaccurate, if i put fuel in then it reads one thing but then within a mile or two it drops drematically. I know its bad but i only usually fill by £10 fuel at a time and one minute it reads above the red but within a mile or so drops to empty and i have to guess the fuel i have left by the miles i have covered!
Is this a common issue?

Now from my understanding of the fuel prices over there in Pomgolia, with only 10 quids worth, you would be lucky to get as far as a mile!

Cobber wrote: wrote:

Now from my understanding of the fuel prices over there in Pomgolia, with only 10 quids worth, you would be lucky to get as far as a mile!

That tickled me no end. Little things please little minds like mine.