Suspected last week my fuel gauge was dropping a bit fast so ,this morning I put in £10-00 worth of fuel and saw the gauge reading 71%,two minutes later the gauge had dropped to 61%.Anyone else noticed anything like this?.

Was the car on a different gradient/slope between checks?

The gauge has gone up to aprox 67% now.At the garage it showed 71%,drove for aprox' 1 mile and at the traffic lights it showed aprox 61%,no real change in gradient etc.Will keep an eagle eye on it this week and see what happens.Just got the feeling in the last couple of days the gauge was going down a lot faster than usual.

The gauge always drops quicker from the half full mark than from full to half full mark. It's the nature of the gauge on this and many other cars.

 

Also I think the problem you talk about, when putting a certain amount of fuel in the gauge always shows a higher reading when restarting, then after a short distance travelled the gauge will settle down and read correctly.

 

Another thing to watch with this gauge is when you fill to the brim and start using the fuel the gauge hardly moves from the full mark until you have travelled around 80-90 miles, then it seems to drop slowly. And as said after the half full mark it does seems to drop at a faster rate.

 

As you describe I reckon there's nothing amiss with it.

Yes,I could be getting concerned about nothing but I have the figures now and can work out over the coming days if the gauge is working OK..

This worried me at first when I got it but have learned how it reads now.

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I'm surprised that anyone can differentiate 61%, 67% and 71% on these gauges!

I'm surprised that anyone can differentiate 61%, 67% and 71% on these gauges!

This..... I was about to ask! (ive had mine 3 days and the gauge is still 101% full lol

This..... I was about to ask! (ive had mine 3 days and the gauge is still 101% full lol

It'll stay like that for several days, start to move ....then drop like a stone!

This..... I was about to ask! (ive had mine 3 days and the gauge is still 101% full lol

 

I've just done a trip down to Wiltshire about 120 miles, the gauge only started to move from the full mark when I had done around 90 miles or so. Having returned from there and run around a few miles, the trip reading is 250 miles, the gauge still shows over half full. I know though it will drop rather quicker now to the empty mark, infact I reckon there is around 120 ish miles left in the tank. From past experience doing that trip and then using what's left of a full tank doing local runs I get around 360-370 from the full tank.

Edited 8 December, 201312 yr by MickA

I'm surprised that anyone can differentiate 61%, 67% and 71% on these gauges!

If you have trouble reading a simple petrol gauge,should you really be behind the wheel of a car in the first place?.

If you have trouble reading a simple petrol gauge,should you really be behind the wheel of a car in the first place?.

Touchy! The really funny thing....you say "aprox 61%" and "aprox 67%".

Approximately....as opposed to what, exactly?

OK,exactly 61% and exactly 67%,happy now?.

OK,exactly 61% and exactly 67%,happy now?.

Why so tetchy? Where's the world-famous Scouse sense of humour?

As for my ability/inability to read a simple petrol gauge...I've never felt the need to read it with a precision of 1%. "Just over a quarter" and "just under a half" does me!

Come on guys, no need to make a mountain out of a molehill

Tis the season of goodwill after all

Come on guys, no need to make a mountain out of a molehill

Tis the season of goodwill after all

Yes,quite right.

Yes,quite right.

I agree...my original comment was MEANT to be light-heated. And we are fellow Scousers after all!

Light Heated? Is that calmer than getting hot under the collar? 

Just finished my first tank - 374 miles... even the last quarter "red" bit goes double quick.. can even watch it moving!

Not bad for a tiny tank