I just filled up my gas tank today and then I stopped to get food but when i started up again i was down to 3/4ths of a tank. I was wondering if something was leakingor something. But then when I started it back up about 20 minutes later it showed the original almost full tank again. Same thing happened where it said that I was empty and I went to fill up and it said I bought 10 gallons when the fuel tank is 13.2 gallons.

 

Were you parked on an incline? I know when I park in my garage which has a VERY slight incline, I'd say less than 2-5 degrees it will make my gas gauge read 1-2 bars higher.

 

No it was completely flat almost and mine read about 6 bars lower.

 

cold weather???

happened to me.

i took a long trip and five minutes before i got the Hotel i filled up. I valet the car and the next morning when i was leaving i saw i had 2 bar left. (From Full) man i was pissed, i bitched and bitched and called management and reported that someone used my car overnight, i even had my receipt from the gas station and theirs and it showed a 5 minute difference. i went to fill up my car after the big drama and it said full. i was confused. and felt like an as$.

 

Oh man haha.

I guess it would have been cold weather if thats what was affecting it. I just bought the car yesterday and I was worried that I might have some sort of leak or if the car really ate this much gas. There had to be something wrong with it because no way I drove it that hard after filling up.

Thanks for the feedback I'm glad I'm not the only one. But yeah it sounds like a pain since it happened to me twice and I was really worried about it.

 

dont worry. its just the cold weather, it took a few days for mine to fix up, it has now been 8 months and no more problems.

 

How did it "fix up"? The owner before me lives where I live and he says that he has never encountered this problem. And I've run across it twice within a day.

 

i just watched my milage till empty, usually about 240. then filled up again and the problem never came back. just be careful not to run out of gas. that cant be fun.