mark666freelander · Sep 17, 2012

hi guys how good are the fuel gauges on the fl? the reason i ask is mines seems to have a mind of its own. when the light comes on i put in £20 of diesel and it brings it up to the second white line i drive say 10 miles and it drops to just above the red and then sits there for ages is this normal ? plugged in a code reader just to see and no codes any ideas ?

regards

mark

teddywood1 · Sep 17, 2012

they are not very relible on the earlier ones a bit better on the face lift thats acording to mine anyway other may differ

mark666freelander · Sep 17, 2012

thats what ive been reading mate

any fixes that anyone knows of ?

mark

Davidspect · Sep 17, 2012

You could try running it with more than a max of three gallons!

mark666freelander · Sep 17, 2012

Davidspect said:
You could try running it with more than a max of three gallons![/quote
do u think that would make a difference

Agspanner · Sep 17, 2012

depends where about the sender is in the tank i guess, mines the same

Freelaner · Sep 17, 2012

it's under the rear passenger seat drivers side and mines the same, summat else to live with

mark666freelander · Sep 17, 2012

So could this be the sender thats playing up ?

Freelaner · Sep 17, 2012

could be a lot of things tbh but if you want to get to the sender it's in the fuel tank as a unit with the pump and filter.

i'm staying away from mine until i absolutly have too

mark666freelander · Sep 17, 2012

Freelaner said:
could be a lot of things tbh but if you want to get to the sender it's in the fuel tank as a unit with the pump and filter.

i'm staying away from mine until i absolutly have too

Nice one mate am going to pull it out and have a look will post up my findings

Freelaner · Sep 17, 2012

mark666freelander said:
Nice one mate am going to pull it out and have a look will post up my findings

dunt go charging in................you can feck it up bigtime.

have a search on here for how to's and go easy...buy the sealing ring before you open it up cos you'll knacker the one already fitted...good luck

mark666freelander · Sep 18, 2012

Freelaner said:
dunt go charging in................you can feck it up bigtime.

have a search on here for how to's and go easy...buy the sealing ring before you open it up cos you'll knacker the one already fitted...good luck

yea mate ive had the pleasure of doing one of these befor on another car

Davidspect · Sep 18, 2012

My point was that with such a small quantiy of fuel in the tank you cant expect it to give an exact reading.

Freelaner · Sep 18, 2012

Davidspect said:
My point was that with such a small quantiy of fuel in the tank you cant expect it to give an exact reading.

it's a Land Rover...nothing is accurate on the whole vehicle

nickcc · Sep 18, 2012

Even my facelift model is far from accurate, reads full for about 100 miles then drops to just over half. Some mornings reads full and other mornings reads half even if the cars only driven a few miles. I always top up with a full tank when the gauge reads 1/4 full, well before the warning light comes on.

Freelaner · Sep 18, 2012

another item that works on the ouija board principle

mark666freelander · Sep 18, 2012

cheers guys i think am just going to live with this problem. lifes to short to be messing about with this

Freelaner · Sep 18, 2012

best thing to do with it really

teddywood1 · Sep 19, 2012

Freelaner have you had bit of film that from cool hand luke

sijwhite · Sep 19, 2012

nickcc said:
Even my facelift model is far from accurate, reads full for about 100 miles then drops to just over half. Some mornings reads full and other mornings reads half even if the cars only driven a few miles. I always top up with a full tank when the gauge reads 1/4 full, well before the warning light comes on.

Same with mine - although it doesn't drop off as fast as yours seems to. I also fill up at the 1/4 full mark but can get 60 odd litres in at that stage. That's pretty much a tank-full I think (13 odd gallons?)

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