bouncing fuel gauge.help

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s4bainsy
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bouncing fuel gauge.help

Post by s4bainsy » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:35 pm

my fuel gauge is bouncing about.and just started not working at all.then it will read all differnt levels.any advise on what ill need.thanxs

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RE: bouncing fuel gauge.help

Post by Blue_Thunder » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:51 pm

Most likely the sensor or some of the wiring.

Do you have Vagcom? You should have a fault code registered, either for the sensor or the gauge.

Hopefully it's not the gauge, as I believe you need to replace the cluster.

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RE: bouncing fuel gauge.help

Post by Dippy » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:51 pm

Fuel sensor is known to go bad on the S4. Not an easy DIY job I understand.
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RE: bouncing fuel gauge.help

Post by tartan_rob » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:15 pm

I replaced my sensor on my B5 and it wasn't that bad. The hardest part was routing the piping so as not to foul the float and of course getting the large ring nut off (and back on).

A little tip, don't smoke whilst doing this job (or even have the interior lights swtched on)...
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RE: bouncing fuel gauge.help

Post by yorkie » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:46 pm

Doing near to November 5th not a good idea either :)

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