Fuel Gage drama
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#14
You guys are not understanding me. Strong signals nearby can create havoc with these electrical systems and cause modules to turn on lights or gauges to weird out. You find everything is normal on the next start. Do you try and find out why the light(s) turned on or gauges weirded out? Yikes.
OK?
OK?
#15
My wild guess is that it has something to do with the car being fully loaded on the return trip. Again, just guessing, maybe the sender wire harness got pinched, pulled or stretched just right to lose it's connection for a split second. Might be a "one in a million" that it happened that way.
Check closely all the wiring that you can see going to the fuel tank. Last resort would be drop the tank down far enough to check the sender plug in.
Check closely all the wiring that you can see going to the fuel tank. Last resort would be drop the tank down far enough to check the sender plug in.
#18
I have never experienced anything with interference of strong signals, Ive driven lots of cars in the vincity of all types of towers, trucks ...ect.... The cars do not run off radio frequencies except the remotes to start/unlock..ect.. they are not going to make the gas gage go nuts or the ECM/BCM lose its mind.... otherwise it would be a very serious hazard that the FCC would not allow. Loose connections, corrosion would be more typical with this type of issue. Ive filled up a couple times after going close to empty, no issues with fuel gage, no issues with the drive to our designation and no issues on the way home until it decided to just drop to empty. Driving around all day today with no issues, so its possible its a loose connector under the car from the highway winds? I will eventually get to looking it over, everything from the tank connections to as far as I can reach.
As for the strong signals if you lose the shielding for either the wiring or any module that uses it they can freak out at simple little things. Garage door opener can do it. As for the FCC and the laws we have many things that are operating at or near the same frequencies and in the same proximity of each other. The reasons they will have bad interaction is because of a failure in a devise, thus the shielding I mentioned. When I worked for Comcast in the 70's we would get complaints from people who had antennas. Our shielding at an amp would get loose and it would basically transmit and the results to those in a two or three block area would be getting these dark wide streaks in the picture from their antenna. They are called sync bars.
At any rate, things fail and stuff happens and sometimes there's nothing we can do about it.
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