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OK, heres the story. Was on the way to work, running out of petrol, pulled into caltex, and they were out of vortex and they had no premium pumps. So i put in $10 worth of regular unleaded (i know i know)

Now since then, my petrol guage went up, then went down, down, down, WELL BELOW empty (where its never been before). I suspected it may be dodgy fuel just sending my fuel level guage haywire so i stopped into BP and put $30 worth of ultimate98 in, and it went up for a short time, then when i started driving it went right back down under E.

Anything like this happened to anyone else? It seems to head up towards the normal level when idles, but when i go anywhere, it goes right below empty. Car drives fine, no problems, just the fuel guage is stuffed. Possibly the fuel level thingy in the tank could be stuffed?

Please help :thumbsup:

Cheers

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I've had the guage go down past the 'E', then float back up to full again, and then back down again.... but it would have been caused by installing a new fuel pump myself and knocking the sensor off. It's always fun to never quite know how much fuel you have!

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