Fuel level gauge

street_fighterGT · Dec 10, 2007

Saturday night, I was on my way to the gas station for a fill up. On the way I stopped by a friends house and shut the car off. I stayed for about 10 mins and then went back to my car and started it up. Before I shut it off when I got to his house, the fuel gauge was reading almost empty. After I started the car back up, the gauge was reading in between 1/4 and 1/2 a tank. Whats going on? I put $10 in gas in it and the needle didnt move. I am going to drive it around and see if it drops, then I am going to fill it up and see if it moves upward. Can anybody help? Hopefully I can just replace the sensor (or whatever is involved). Some insight would help. Thanks.

Whistler98 · Dec 11, 2007

Well I am not sure what gas cost where you live but if you only got 10 bucks worth here in PA you would have only gotten 3.23 Gallons of gas and that isn't got to move the gauge to much.

street_fighterGT · Dec 11, 2007

Well $10 worth here is over 3 gallons enough to move the gauge and tell a difference in whats going on. Thanks a lot for all the help, but anyways its working fine now.

97GT4.6 · Dec 11, 2007

That's pretty weird. My gauge isn't perfect either. When it is almost empty, and i put ten gallons in it, it should be 2/3 full right? Well the gauge says that its completely full, but then it goes back down to half pretty quickly, only 50 miles and its at half..

And do these cars have a low fuel light?