Davedstone
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Since owning my car (4 yrs) the fuel gauge has never registered on my dash, so I have had no idea on how much fuel was in the tank. Today I topped it up with hardly any miles driven in 4 years as I was always working on it until today when after a long time in my garage working on various issues, drove to local garage to put some petrol in it and much to my surprise, the petrol nozzle stopped at £22.80 with fuel close to the top of the filler neck.
Question:
Does anyone know what sort of reading to expect from the fuel sender unit in the tank which I will try and measure tomorrow after I finish work? Is this a common failure? I checked the fuel indicator in the dashboard when I had this out and it measured ok, so I am hoping either a broken wire underneath on the fuel sender unit, or worse case, the fuel sender unit. How can I test this? If I ground one side of the fuel sender, will this activate the gauge in the dash to read full?
Any advice welcome.
Thanking anyone in advance.
Regards,
Dave
Question:
Does anyone know what sort of reading to expect from the fuel sender unit in the tank which I will try and measure tomorrow after I finish work? Is this a common failure? I checked the fuel indicator in the dashboard when I had this out and it measured ok, so I am hoping either a broken wire underneath on the fuel sender unit, or worse case, the fuel sender unit. How can I test this? If I ground one side of the fuel sender, will this activate the gauge in the dash to read full?
Any advice welcome.
Thanking anyone in advance.
Regards,
Dave
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