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Old 02-09-2006, 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Earthworm
Mine started out like that when I bought it. Over the next few fills I would go further and further until it started reading accurate. It's almost as though the sending unit needed to go through its entire range to recalibrate itself.

That's my answer and I'm sticking with it
Same here really...I normally started to fill up around 250 miles (13ish gallons) and it slowly started to read for that to be empty but after a few long trips it will reguage to the more appropite 16ish gallons
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