Fuel level switch
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Fuel level switch
Yesterday I was making the usual drive from Houston to San Antonio. I filed the car up before I left as usual. It always takes me just less that ½ a tank to go the 195 miles. Well right about the time it gets to the ½ mark all of a sudden light comes on the dash to check gauges. I look and the fuel gauge is at empty and the DIC says low fuel. I push the fuel button and run through the readouts. Getting 25 mpg average and 28 instant but there is no reading for the millage left.
I pull into a station to check it out thinking that maybe I hit something in the road and it punctured the tank and drained it out. No hole or anything dripping so I filled her up only took 10 gallons. Got back in the car started her up the gauge flashed to full then went back to empty. As I was driving out of the station it slowly moved to full. I’m thinking that the fuel level switch may be going bad.
I have a code searcher would it have thrown a code for this issue?
I pull into a station to check it out thinking that maybe I hit something in the road and it punctured the tank and drained it out. No hole or anything dripping so I filled her up only took 10 gallons. Got back in the car started her up the gauge flashed to full then went back to empty. As I was driving out of the station it slowly moved to full. I’m thinking that the fuel level switch may be going bad.
I have a code searcher would it have thrown a code for this issue?
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Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Texas Where God intended me to be.
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2022 C5 of the Year Winner - Unmodified
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St. Jude Donor '08 thru '11,'22 thru '26
I only buy either Exxon, Shell & Valero. I try to switch off every tank.
