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John Darrell Norman Jr. Posted on Oct 25, 2014

Why does my gas gauge needle never go below 3-4 tank?

My gas needle goes between 3-4th and over the F. Never goes below 3-4th tank. Also I know I use more gas then $22 sometimes. When I try to fill up. The Gas pump shuts off at $22 like its full.

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I would guess the fuel level sending unit is malfunctioning, deposits sometimes build up on the resistor pack, or there is and open circuit in the resister pack, does the fuel gauge needle do a full sweep from empty to full and back when the ignition key is turn to the run position? This is a cluster self check mode, if it fully sweeps than the cluster is ok, I would suspect it needs a fuel level sending unit which is located in the fuel tank as part of the fuel pump modual but usually can be serviced separately

Testimonial: "Thank you for your help. Week later needle started working again. Maybe I had too much gas to begin with and threw i off some."

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SOURCE: car will not accept gas

try pulling back a little on the nozzle, the tank has an anti rolloverball in the pipe and this sometimes cause it to shut off when the nozzle is stuck all the way into the filler pipe

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  • Posted on Feb 01, 2009

SOURCE: 2005 Buick Rendezvous Fuel Gauge

well the gage is made of rubber it could be sticking no other way than to replace the gage itself/ please rate my response thank you very much

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Feb 14, 2009

SOURCE: Gas gauge problems with 2004 Buick Rendezvous

No, there is not a fuse for this. Unfortunately, you have a bad sending unit. In order to replace the sending unit you have to drop the gas tank. Sooo............drive it more to get rid of all of that gas and it will be easier to put back up.
please remember to rate this solution.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 18, 2009

SOURCE: Filled up gas tank and gauge still shows empty. I

ethanol fuel effects the fuel sending unit ,even just 10% ethanol.New sending units from gm adress this.

Mike

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  • Posted on Sep 07, 2009

SOURCE: gas gauge shows empty after filling gas tank

The gauge circuit is shunted on most cars, this is wierd, but needed to stabilize the readings... Your description sounds like normal function. Drivers would complain if the qauge were to be instant, going around corners, starting, stopping, all move fuel, and the gauge would indicate this, cauing driver alarm...Been this way for ever, although yours sounds like it is on the far side of the scale...if it reads correctly after a while, you could replace everything and you would have the same performance.

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