Re: Running on empty - wacky gage

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> Every 80s vintage Audi and VW product owned (5) never shows 'full' on
> the gage after a fill-up. It seems like they are programmed to function
> correctly for the first couple of years and then only show 3/4 after you
> fill up.   Does any one know of an 'easy fix', or will my wife have to
> continue panicking every time the fuel gage is in the red, but we still
> have a 1/4 tank?

Geez, all mine have always been fine.  How's your coolant gauge?  They
both run off the same 10v regulator behind the inst cluster.  Sometime
when you're bored I'd check the wiring for *good* continuity.  Bent-ley
has a procedure for checking the gauge with fixed resistors to ground
(that's how the sensor works).  Look it up sometime.  Maybe it's the
senders, I've never messed with those.  Never had to.

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Huw Powell

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