Lettuce

iTrader: (1)

I was driving the lex and my gas light came on...I parked the car at a local movie rental place when I got back to the car and started it my gas gauge automatically went to half full?!?!??! w/o the gas light on?????I was like what the fu##K! Anyway I kept driving....after about 4 minutes I looked again, and the gauge went back down low warning light again??? weird////!?


just an fyi!!!

Solo_D33A

Slope of the parkade maybe?

j stuff

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im guessing maybe it got temporarily stuck at a point or some sort of slope

IAGS400

This is very normal.

From http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-gauge3.htm

The microprocessor can also provide some damping to the needle movement. When you go around a turn, or up a hill, the fuel can slosh to one side of the tank and quickly change the float position. If the needle were to respond quickly to all of these changes, it would be bouncing all over the place. Instead, software calculates a moving average of the last several readings of the float position. This means that changes in needle position occur more slowly. You may have noticed this when filling up your car -- you'll finish filling the tank long before the needle reaches full.

carbongs

iTrader: (13)

wow very informative thanks!

edro925

The float in your tank would have gotten stuck. If the guage seems to be back to normal, then it's probably working again and just got stuck temporarily.