On Wed, 5 Oct 1994, David Carment wrote:

> Any way the point of this is that the Vanagon gas gauge is way off...the
> needle was hardly at the red point on the gauge when it died....and the gauge
> will
> read half empty after only 90 miles have gone by....what's up with that?
> How is it fixed......any ideas - DC
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 I have noticed that the gauge on my 82 sometimes "seems" inaccurate, that
is it follows mileage/consumption for the first half, but on the
"bottom" half the gauge can move around a couple of needle widths, or
even stick at the beginning of the red zone. Maybe the sender arm thingy
needs work, but I'll tackle that when I eventually drop the tank and have
everything cleaned. Until then I rely mainly on the trip odometer, I seem
to get a consistent 360 miles to the tankfull.

(also my fuel pump buzzes when I'm really low, kinda built in warning device)

Alistair