Sagaris fuel gauge

[JonRB]

Just thought I'd share this for amusement...

The fuel gauge on my Sagaris appears to become slightly neurotic when the level gets down to around 15L

Yesterday I had the following (if you'll forgive the artistic licence taken)

"16L, yeah fine, no worries, 15L, OMG! OMG WARNING! 2L! Christ! We're going to run out. No, wait, 6L, it's ok. Actually I think it's 14L; you're fine. OMG! No! It's 4L! Warning! Warning! Oh, wait, 8L you're fine. No 6L. Oh I dunno, 12L? Maybe 5L"

So I pulled in to a petrol station, gassed up, got 45L in, at which point the gauge read 54L.

[Pharoah]

Mine does that as well I worked out that braking whilst the car was leaning to the left gave the lowest reading Seems to vary by about 5l depending on whether you are braking / accelerating / cornering. I have had mine down to 2l which is the lowest I dared to go, a warning comes on at 4l but I am sure there is more in it than it says.

[darkmark07]

When I got mine yesterday evening to drive home (car on flat / level surface) the gauge read 14l - cue mental arithmetic - draw conclusion that I'll probably need to fill it up today.

Drove in to work this morning. Parked car on same flat / level surface (in fact in the same parking space). Sat in the car for a few seconds with the engine running enjoying the ambience - checked the fuel gauge and now have 16l. So I gained 2l over 20+ miles - who said keeping the tiv in V-Power might prove expensive? The more I drive, the more I save seemingly!

[KillerJim]

My Sagaris does exactly the same, below 16L it becomes very inaccurate.

My story is much the same, sitting with 16L at the house thought I would be able to do the 3 miles motorway to work and then grab some fuel. Unfortunately as soon as I joined the motorway it was queued out and have the 16L.. 6L.. 10L.. 4L *warning*.. etc..

I never let it go below 16L now

J

[SAGTAFF]

yes, its a nightmare taking the car to France. Had a couple of close calls this year when at Le Mans - they hide the petrol stations over there so as soon as you get to about 20ltrs its best to fill up again.

[sascha]

something more:

after filling up i got -6L, after a while 157L then 133L and finally 60L

a miracle fuelmultiplication.

it ended now with error code 11 and again -6L

resetting the "fault code" with mbe-tool did'nt help. i think the fuel gauge in the tank gave up and made suicide ..

[rhyspw]

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[SteveSPG]

mine now says 2l. (tam but same story)

i opened the tank as i need to change fuel pumps, and was presented with around 5 inches of fuel in the tank.....somewhat more than 2l i think


had to close the tank back and go for a run to use the fuel... as i only had a small jerry can not an oil drum to drain the rule

then decided it was sunny so the fuel pump can wait

[RedSpike66]

This wandering fuel issue causes problems when doing track days....
I shall have an interesting update on Sag/T350 fuel tank and guages in a week or so to solve the problem, and allow me to drive firther between stops too :-)

[Zippee]

RedSpike66 said:

This wandering fuel issue causes problems when doing track days....
I shall have an interesting update on Sag/T350 fuel tank and guages in a week or so to solve the problem, and allow me to drive firther between stops too :-)