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Old May 18, 2009 | 09:26 PM
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gas gauge question

when my car has a quarter of a tank of gas left or so. My gas gauge goes from half a tank to empty, back and forth while driving. is all thirdgen like this or is just my sending unit going bad
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Old May 19, 2009 | 05:34 AM
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Re: gas gauge question

Could be or you could be missing the baffles in the tank.
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Old May 19, 2009 | 06:40 AM
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Re: gas gauge question

The gas gauge reading is a common complaint in our cars, so you may have to do further research to ID any real problems.

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Old May 23, 2009 | 10:01 PM
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Re: gas gauge question

would the 4th gen gas tank make the fuel level sender a more stablized reading
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