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Fuel Gauge Problem? 850 1996

posted by  someone claiming to be Rob on  Mon Nov 18 08:26 CST 2002 [RELATED]

I'm not sure quite how to troubleshoot this one. My wife was driving her 850 this morning (1996 85K miles) and the fuel light went on the gauge read near empty. Usually we get around 350-375 miles per tank (I like to reset the trip odometer everytime I refill just for info). The odometer was at about 250 miles. So she filled up the tank. It only filled about 11-12 gallons instead of the 15 or so that we usually put into it. When she got back into the car and started it up to go, the gauge only read that there were about 12 gallons in the car. So here's the question - is the gauge broken (did it read less than the car actually had) or is there some other fuel tank related problem?

What do you all think?

TIA

Rob

95 854T 105K/96 854 85K






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