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This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that have an inaccurate fuel gauge. Technician should drive the vehicle to duplicate the concern. The fuel gauge will have a tendency to falsely indicate a lower fuel level than what is actually present. The fuel gauge will take a few minutes to show the correct fuel level. On vehicles equipped with an automatic transmission no buffering takes place when the transmission is in park or neutral. This is a normal characteristic and no repairs are necessary. On vehicles equipped with a manual transmission the fuel gauge is buffered in all gears and neutral. There is a timer which starts to count up when the clutch is depressed. When this timer reaches its calibrated value the buffering stops. This is a normal characteristic and no repairs are necessary.

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Source

Source: NHTSA Manufacturer Communications — Communication from a manufacturer to dealers (summary published by a government agency)
Reporter type: Manufacturer
Source reference: 10114443
Country / market: US
Language: en
Document version: Version 2 (2 held)
Note on the source: US federal government dataset of communications manufacturers sent to dealers. NHTSA publishes a summary of each communication, not its full text.

Dates

Incident date: Unknown
Received by source: 2017-08-15
Added to the source's file: 2017-08-15
Issued / published: 2016-02-27
First observed: 2026-10-05 02:21 UTC (initial bulk load)
This version fetched: 2026-10-05 03:49 UTC