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Has anyone noticed the fuel gauge in our civics is not too accurate? Mine skips from full to half in no time at all! Also, I can stay on empty for literally 25 miles! Is there something wrong with my gauge? Has anyone else noticed this?
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if you take it in to get fixed, they replace the whole guage cluster, which will reset your miles to zero (sounds good but its not, it can lower the value of the car, and the old mileage will be recorded)
actaully, they aren't switching them out anymore. it is a known problem but honda says it is normal so they don't want the dealerships swapping them out and wasting money.
I top off the gas every Monday so i dun have to worry, but i don't see anythign wrong with mine, when it's on 1/2, i pump about 20 or so litres, and our cars are 50 litres capacity...
Yep, I just bought my car a few days ago, and I've noticed the same thing...
Oh well, I actually watch mileage personally. Also, it sure is a benefit to have a dummy light (gas light). Comes on when you have about 2 - 2.5 gallons left. At least in my car it does.
i have that problem too.....just couple days ago....i start up my car and realized that the Fuel Gauge Light had came on...so i thought, "Oops time to get gas!" then after driving for 1.5 miles...the light went off and the gas meter jump a inch upward...i was like "WTF?"...anyways..got get that fix soon[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]
my 02 has been weird lately, but mostly with the gas light. it used to come on when i had used around 10.5 gallons, but then it started coming on when i had used around 9 gallons a couple times lately, but then it hadnt even come on yet and it took 10.7 gallons or so.
yeah. I tried one dealer and they're like "Thats a feature, the first time it hits the light its a warning that you have low gas... then it goes back up..." bullshit. I dont want any warning, 1 warning is enough. if you're gonna have 2 warning light at two different time, then tell me its different... when he told me that, I was like, wtf? okay er. fine.
but now that I think about it, er.. bullshit. the manual says nothing about that. its really a hassle, I've stalled my car 2 or 3 times cuz I thought I had enough gas but I dont. I'm going to take it to the dealer I bought my car from, I duno what'll happen though.
as far as the light going on and then off again, it happened to me once too, but think about this. how was your car sitting when you shut it off? if it was not level, that may be the reason. on my 86 grand am, however, now that was annoying, once u hit a bout 1/3 of a tank left, any turn and the guage was movin'. i think that the pick-up was in a bad place though, b/c when i had a just under a half tank or so, and i floored it, the gass went to the back of the tank, fuel pressure went down, and it bucked liked a chick w/ a sreaming orgasm. that was a pain in theass, o well, no probs w/ my 01
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!!!!!
Mine simply goes up and down + or - .1" . Sometimes when i use the air conditioner, the level moves up! [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG] lol, weird.
