Wilma is an 08 with <18,000 miles.....the other day I parked on a steep grade (a parking lot) & when I fired her up the gas gauge read empty (tank is full). I can only assume the float / fuel sending unit got screwed up from the steep grade......

Anyone else ever experience this situation?



PS; I'm at work with about 2 hours till I retire!!!!!!!!!

 

What was the position of the car on the grade?

Happy retirement! You beat me by 1 day.

 

Have many happy years of retirement!

 

Using your logic San Francisco must have lots of broken fuel gauges.
I'm sure the auto makers take hills and slopes into account when designing.
Maybe they make special cars for Kansas though. LOL

 

Well, I'm pretty sure it was the steepest angle this particular car has ever been parked on....guessing 30 to 40.....with nose to sky. What's the odds the float (I assume) or the fuel sending unit would just happen to malfunction on the one occasion the car is parked at a steep angle???

 

I had sending units stick before on other cars. I guess it's possible. Don't keep the tank so full when parking on steep grades.

 

My wife thought someone had siphoned the gas, so I stopped to fill it up & it took less than one gallon. I'll give it some time & DRIVE VIGOUSLY to try & shake it loose.

 

Something like that happened on my '97 Jetta, but I wasn't on a hill. One day a full tank was reading around half. Later in the day it came up to full.

No idea what happened. Something got stuck.

 

Same thing happened to me multiple times in my 03' gti

People siphon gas in public ? What ? That's hard to believe

 

retirement ???? must be nice !!!! How old are ya ???? Im thinking about it !!! & thinking really hard too !!!! would love to call it quits just dont know if I can afford too ???? Might have to part with some toys if I do !!!

 

60.5

I go to the casino every day......waiting for the wife to get home from work.....



Only decision I have to make now is which XF to drive to the casino on any given day.

 

Miracle, after the trip meter > 40 miles.......Wilma's gas gauge is working again. That's the last time I overfill the tank & then park on a super steep grade.



She's still working......."A woman's place is on the job"!

(She drives the Chevy to work).

 

I always thought Kansas was flat. What can I say, I saw the Wizard of Oz, and I drove across it with a couple other Crossfires in 2011. Yep, it's flat.

 

I have this all the time on my chevy Express van. It is the slope. It seem to happen when I'm on very hilly work sites. Sometimes it takes 1/4 of a tank to start reading correctly. I get it on the hills never on the flats.