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is it normal on these vans to have nearly 1/2 a tank variation on the fuel guage depending on cornering and hills?

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Mines like that .......sometimes I think I have a leak but it slowly meanders back. The shape of the tank and position of the sender don't help much!
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Mine is the same :cry: I don't recall the diseaseal being like that though....
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ahhh.so im not alone :ok
came back from the coast the other week and thought i had 1/4 of a tank left when i got home..parked up on the drive with nose downhill slightly..next day it was coughing and spluttering when i started it up and got worse till it cut out.im thinking oh bugger the trip out has killed it!!!.got a fivers worth in a can and put that in and away it went again.learned a valuble lesson though,fill up b4 it gets to the red bit !!
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We learned the hard way never to let ours get anywhere near the quarter mark, did you know there's no filling stations between the M25 & Dover ? :roll:
Seems to be a VW thing, the Golf's the same, oneminute easily quarter of a tank left, next morning gauge hardly rises.
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will do andi :ok ..i consider mesen lucky to get home that time....it wont happen again :ok
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Mine constantly sits just above the red regardless of how much LPG I use 8)

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Cruz wrote:Mine constantly sits just above the red regardless of how much LPG I use 8)
here we go with the 'gas heads' taking the preverbial... :roll: :lol:
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