[TheRealCJ]

Hey all, I've got a question about my fuel gauge in my Vitara.

For some reason, it falls below empty when there is quite a large amount of fuel left in the tank. According to everything I've read, my tank should be around 40L, however, when I fill up my car from "below empty" (according to the gauge), it overflows anywhere between 30-33 litres, oftentimes a lot less (like today, dead empty, 29 litres).

Anybody else have the same problem? Any ideas on a fix?

[royce]

you can pull the sender and clean it and see if that helps, or even bend the float arm to adjust it but its all a pain in the ass to do unless you can test it with the tank out easy.

I jsut go by the odo as to whether I should think about filling up or not

[TheRealCJ]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing lately. But since I've gotten a snorkel+bigger tyres+ roof rack, my fuel consumption is something of a mystery.

[SuziBlu]

Fuel consumption is the easiest thing in the world to work out, forget the fuel guage, totally useless things.

Fill you car with fuel, zero the odometer, drive it for around 200kays, go fill up, divide one by the other and you get either liters per hundred kilometers, or kilometers per liter.

200k takes 22 liters to fill.

200k / 22l = 9 kilometers per liter (KPL)

22l / 200k * 100 = 11 liters per hundred kilometers. (LPH)

I never look at my fuel gauge, rather, every time I fill I zero the odometer, and when I fill, I can guess to the liter just about as to how much she will take.

[royce]

yeah but what he is saying is it all over the show

I do a pretty set route every day and my consumption can move to teh poit of being 3 or 4 litres off where I thgought it would be

[adsport]

Mine does the same, i thought about servicing the resistor strip but i think its just probably a better idea to get a new sender.....