Inaccurate Fuel Gauge

[Diznavis]

Quote [hr]Originally posted by: Mbow I have heard about the gauge issues but hadn't experienced anything until today. I was on my way to pick up my wife and daughter from a friend's house when I noticed the light came on and the needle was sitting on that last red line. I had to go about 15 miles or so and decided to wait to fillup on the way back. Well, on the way back the light goes off and the needle jumps up saying I have a 1/4 tank of gas! So, my daughter takes a nap and we drive around looking at some houses and the needle still says 1/4 tank. We head for the house and I decide to fillup so I don't have to in the morning. I pumped 12 gallons of 93 octane into my mofo car! I thought the darn thing only held 11.2! I had to be running on fumes and about to be left stranded. Meanwhile, my gauge says I have fricckken 1/4 tank of gas!!!!![hr] its a 13.2 gallon tank, not 11.2

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[SpooooN]

My meter goes up when my car is on a incline.....actually it pretty much goes all over the place

[Mbow]

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[hr]ts a 13.2 gallon tank, not 11.2[hr]

You are absolutely right! I don't know why I was thinking that it was 11. However, it still doesn't explain the problem with the fuel gauge. Hmmm.....every other time I have let it go down to the e indicator and have only managed to put in a max of 11. I guess I have a gauge with a mind of its own as well.....

[NickDaMans02Civic]

I didn't experience this until the AZ meet but I went to go see star wars episode 2 on the digital screen and it was awesome but I come out start my car start driving and its lugging like a mother I had the A/C on it but it was way worse. So I look the fuel light is on and I had I swear a 1/4 tank when I shut it off. So I try to find a station and can't I was freaking out this thing is pegged on E and its driving like crap. So I finally find a station and it just happens to be a chevron so I fill it up and it only took 11.6 gallons of 91 octane 1.57 a gallon thats the on going rate out here for the good stuff. So yeah that was my first experience with the gas gauge but didn't have to walk and still made it too the Meet but I was freaking out that I would have to leave my ride alone and get some gas. Uggg

Nick

[frekyjason2002]

just discovered that today, i was at half a tank but when i hit the freeway it went to full, too weird!!

[slavetothedark]

my car goes for about 10 gallons before the light comes on..

[bullseye]

I talked to the service manager at my dealership and he acted like he had never heard of 01 Civic fuel gauge problems. I worked it out with him to have a gauge cluster installed with the correct mileage - had to estimate the mileage I would put on in a week. He said the company that does it had to run the new cluster on a machine to add miles. Arrived at the dealership with about 5 miles left so I drove around a little so my odometer would have the exact same mileage as the new odometer. They installed the new cluster and the fuel gauge acts just the same as it did before!

[ALLcustom2k1]

the truth is, that part of our cars is probably just poorly designed, but if we complain enough, maybe someone will do something about it at honda... i have learned the path of my wayward gauge and estimate... i use "trip A" and reset to zero every time i fill up and usually get between 320 and 350 miles, which isn't that great, but at least i know when to get gas [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG]

[Righter]

If you have a Civic the tank will hold up to 13.2 gallons

[HippyCivicEX012]

i was on e and i decided to fill up, my car only took 10.2 gallons

[erikku]

i noticed that it takes 10 times longer for the gauge needle to drop down from FULL to 1/2 than from 1/2 to EMPTY

[watewate]

I just got my 02 Civic Coupe less than a week ago, and this is the first thing I noticed... Every time I park the car for a prolonged period of time [3+hrs], the needle on fuel gauge seem to drop anywhere from 1 measure to 2...

My pops says it's probably the sensor inside the tank moving around, but I'm skeptical, I even check the bottom of the car to see it anything was leaking. T.T

I'm on my second tank of gas, and I seem to be doing just over 400km per... is this on par?

[mattskav]

the guage has a design flaw.

as for 400km per tank, do a search you will find that the range varies a lot in these cars, i get about the same (250 miles per tank) with an intake 17" rims and a thule up top.

[OsOBooSTeD]

i have the same prob... it sucks

[silverdevil]

I must have been one lucky mofo becaue my car has had 0 problems since I got it 10 months ago.