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Fuel Gauge Issues

bigfut

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Has anyone had this problem?

Driving back from Bendigo this week wasn't paying to much attention to the fuel gauge, but it got to 1/4 and stopped going down, end result, running out of petrol with it on 1/4 of a tank.

Faulty fuel sender?

When I filled it up, it went back to full, but I dont exactly trust it!
 

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Has anyone had this problem?

So I'm guessing the low fuel warning display didn't occur either! Take your car to your local holden dealer to look into it. It's not worth risking it again.
 

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possible the the sender jammed or a malfunction in the instrument cluster,

heh you must have though you were getting exceptional milage lol
 

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Yeah the milage was going well, just under 600kms, which was a bit more than I normally get with round town driving with a bit of open road.
 

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So I'm guessing the low fuel warning display didn't occur either! Take your car to your local holden dealer to look into it. It's not worth risking it again.

No, it was business as usual, still on 1/2 tank, range was about 140km I think. Yeah I will be taking it in today hopefully
 

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Had the same issue, except mine showed 1/4 one day and empty the next. I thought it was odd but i trusted the previous day's reading and...ran out of fuel.
I argued with the dealer who said he needed to drop the tank to confirm fuel level, to do this he had to also drop the exhaust and drive shaft. He said due to me running out he would bill me the labour for his time. I contacted the engineer at my Lease dept who promptly contacted them also. Eventually the dealer conceded he could not calibrate the sender correctly and the entire sender replacement and labour were done via warranty.
I had no low fuel warning (and I believe you get 2 before you get critically low).
Take it back and ask them to recalibrate if they can.
 

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Faulty sender unit was the cause, now I can go back to trusting the fuel gauge. haha
 
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