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maybe your needles stuffed..mine is tells me all sorts of strange readings, i can fill up and it will say 3/4, or like today ..i was driving out to Macedon and the needle was on a quarter...f**king thing ran out of gas ..luckily its dual fuel :D

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mine does it too, sometimes I have 3/4 of a tank and if I'm in traffic for ages it will drop right down below E and no light. Then if I accelerate hard or corner hard it comes back up. Dunno why it does it but it's random so I don't care. I know how many kms I get from a tank on everage so I don't worry about it.

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It does it because the sender for the fuel indication is on one side of the tank. I have found out during a skidpan day. If you keep turning right in circles it will show that you have less fuel than you really do. Turn left the needle will show you have more fuel that you really have. Pretty standard stuff :D

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I think they are designed like that to hint that you need to fuel up soon. My evo and gtr both do the same thing. First half takes longer than the second half.

Sounds about right to me, all the cars i've ever driven have been the same way especially those without the fuel light. Of course if you own a VP Commodore you just go by the odometer because you know off by heart how much you get from a tank :)

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Sounds about right to me, all the cars i've ever driven have been the same way especially those without the fuel light. Of course if you own a VP Commodore you just go by the odometer because you know off by heart how much you get from a tank :/

I thought the rule of thumbs with Commodore was drive to the next petrol station after filling up and you should be right...but carry a jerry can just in case :P

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My car has run rich for the last ... Well... Ages. My o2 sensors are gone so the car reads it wrong n uses too much petrol. Might be that. Good news for u is that given u only have one instead of two expensive parts for it like I do... It'll cost u about 100 odd instead of 500 :/

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