Happend once to me, filled up and got out of the station and my gauge read empty still. I than stopped at another gas station and filled up a little again and the gauge was almost full. I guess it just doesnt read the gas level sometimes.

 

 

I had that happen once also. I was at two bars and put in $10 worth. When I drove away, I remember thinking: "man, !0 bucks doesn't move the gauge much." The bars slowly rose. Then I made a stop at a store, came out, started the car and the gauge read correctly.

 

I believe this problem occurs when you leave the car either running, or with the accessory switch on when you get gas. So, if you like listening to music while you are getting gas, it would be more likely to happen to you.

I had the problem once when I just got the car, and when I asked my dealer, there wasn't a specific bulleting for the S, but a similar one for another model. Sure enough, I always turn the car off when I fill up, and sure enough, the gas gauge always resets correctly.

 

I hear it happens once in a while. Mines done it a couple times. There was another thread a while back about it. No biggie. Its fine.

 

That just happend to me. I filled up $10 and when I drove off it read empty. Then the next morning it read almost half tank.

 

My room mate who is on the board insists there is a reserve tank and drives on like 1 or 2 bars all the time and I've tried to tell him there is not a reserve tank, its not a 4 wheeler or dirt bike. Its never good to drive under a 1/4 tank if you can help it from what I've always heard.

 

your friend is a retard

 

Hey.. if you can convince him there isn't a reserve tank more power to you!

 

Most gas guages have an electronic damper on them so that the level doesn't change rapidly durring acceleration/braking or going up and down hills. I know on my jetta there is a trick where you can get into a diagnostic mode on the instrument cluster where the odometer reads rpm and the fuel guage reads instantaniously. I drove this way once and quicly appreciated the damped fuel guage because my tank would go from full to empty every time I stoped at a red light (tank was actually half full). My guess is that especially if you leave the accecories on (although not neccesarily depending on how it is wired), the damper doesn't reset and it just takes time for the lavel to get up all the way.

Ethenol or shell gas has NOTHING to do with this. Any fluid is going to be dense enough to make the float rise to the surface.