One of those TVR electrical things
Discussion
Not after a solution, just interested to hear other peoples experiences.
The fuel guage on my S3 stopped working properly about 18 months ago. It registrs a full tank, but stops working when it reaches about 75% full. Also, as is the way of these things, it always registered fuller whilst going around right handed corners - so if I went around a long right hander and the fuel guage registered anything I knew I still had plenty fuel in the tank.
Yesterday I took the car out for the first proper drive in a couple of weeks, and the guage is now registering when I go around left handed bends, and not right handed. I cannot think of any plausable explanation for this, other than when the car was in for it's last service it had the fuel tank frame replaced. Would it be possible for the fuel sensor/sender to have been affected, or is it another TVR electrical "characteristic".
The fuel guage on my S3 stopped working properly about 18 months ago. It registrs a full tank, but stops working when it reaches about 75% full. Also, as is the way of these things, it always registered fuller whilst going around right handed corners - so if I went around a long right hander and the fuel guage registered anything I knew I still had plenty fuel in the tank.
Yesterday I took the car out for the first proper drive in a couple of weeks, and the guage is now registering when I go around left handed bends, and not right handed. I cannot think of any plausable explanation for this, other than when the car was in for it's last service it had the fuel tank frame replaced. Would it be possible for the fuel sensor/sender to have been affected, or is it another TVR electrical "characteristic".
Ah yes Mr Podie, I forgot that S's don't have seperate trip counters! You could either try hitting a speed bump at 90mph to jolt the thing into action, or now that the mists of time are clearing, I recall that I kept a notepad in the glovebox and wrote the mileage down eash time I filled up. Tedious, but not as tedious as running out of petrol...
Not after a solution, just interested to hear other peoples experiences.
The fuel guage on my S3 stopped working properly about 18 months ago. It registrs a full tank, but stops working when it reaches about 75% full. Also, as is the way of these things, it always registered fuller whilst going around right handed corners - so if I went around a long right hander and the fuel guage registered anything I knew I still had plenty fuel in the tank.
Yesterday I took the car out for the first proper drive in a couple of weeks, and the guage is now registering when I go around left handed bends, and not right handed. I cannot think of any plausable explanation for this, other than when the car was in for it's last service it had the fuel tank frame replaced. Would it be possible for the fuel sensor/sender to have been affected, or is it another TVR electrical "characteristic".
The problem will be caused by the gauge sender unit in the tank, as the float moves up/down/ side to side it's coming off the resitor track.
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