Fuel gauge

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hasler88
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Fuel gauge

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Hello all

I got hold of a set of 5 dials from a Y reg hdi 110 since I put them in the fuel gauge doesn’t seem to be working, it was on the second line from the red when I fitted them drove around 100 miles it didn’t move so I put £20 in it then moved to half a tank and stayed there, I’ve put the old 4 dials back in and the has taken about 10 mins to move from the 2nd line to around 1/4 of a tank. Is this a problem with the dials or my car, the oil temp gauge doesn’t work but going to see a nice man from the Peugeot forum on Sunday to enable this and the trip computer.

Any help is appreciated don’t fancy running out of fuel on the motorway

I have a W reg hdi 90
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Re: Fuel gauge

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hasler88 wrote:taken about 10 mins to move from the 2nd line to around 1/4 of a tank
So that's moved from a sixth to a quarter. That's about 8% of the needle's full travel, so not very far at all.
I'd have said that's within the margin of error of the fuel gauge :roll:

For the oil temp there are three places you have to enable it: the instrument cluster, the BSI, and the engine ECU. (The engine ECU will be told that the car doesn't have an oil temperature sensor even though it does.)

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Re: Fuel gauge

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That was when i put the old dials back in, the new dials is still stuck on half

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