Fuel Gauge Problem!!
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Fuel Guage Problem!!
Im having problems with my fuel gauge needle constantly going up and down. If my gas tank is full of course I have no problems but If I have anything less my needle goes up and down everytime I make a turn or stop quickly. Anyone have this problem? should I take back to the dealer? or is it something I can fix?
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Rep Power: 0 It's just the fuel moving around in the tank that's causing that to happen - it's not broken, if you live in a hilly area or throw your car around it's bound to happen - just drive straight or stop in order to get a correct reading. There's nothing that the dealer is gonna do for that.
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Rep Power: 314 Problem is that it never did it before and now all of a sudden it's doing this and it's anoying. If I have less than half a tank and I make a sharp turn my needle drops and my "Low Fuel" light turns on.
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Rep Power: 0 your gauge is probably gone, I would have the dealer check it out. The gauge should never noticably move when you stop or go, whether on a hill or on the flats. My jeep would move when I took a sharp left, but that was because it was off road more than it was on-road and I was a Jamboree Guide....
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Rep Power: 0 Wow, ok.
This is a really old problem and it is quite common in the civics infact there is a TSB about it.
Basically there is a design problem the fuel guage swings wildly on some cars and is unresponsive when the car sits on a hill, it often takes the car 30 mins to read acuratley. They used to replace the fuel senfing units, then guage clusters trying to figure out what was going on...
But none of it worked, so they called it "normal" and went on with life.
Incidently replacing guage clusters kills the resale value of your car because the miles are no longer accurate and people become very leary of the car...
Honda eventually bought my car back because it was torn apart so many times....
This is a really old problem and it is quite common in the civics infact there is a TSB about it.
Basically there is a design problem the fuel guage swings wildly on some cars and is unresponsive when the car sits on a hill, it often takes the car 30 mins to read acuratley. They used to replace the fuel senfing units, then guage clusters trying to figure out what was going on...
But none of it worked, so they called it "normal" and went on with life.
Incidently replacing guage clusters kills the resale value of your car because the miles are no longer accurate and people become very leary of the car...
Honda eventually bought my car back because it was torn apart so many times....
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Rep Power: 0 ITS YOUR FUEL SENDING UNIT..OR OTHER WISE KNOWN AS YOUR FUEL METER....TELL YOUR GUAGE HOW MUCH GAS U GOT OR DONT HAVE... TAKE IT TO THE DEALERSHIP...THEYLL REPLCE IT...OR IF YOUR CAR ISNT UNDER WARRANTY ANYMORE U CAN DO IT YOURSLEF...IF U NEED SOME TIPS.....ON HOW TO REPALCE IT ...GIVE ME A HOLLA......
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