Losing Gas
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Losing Gas
Hello everybody I have a 99 2.5 L and my question isevery morning I lose alot of gas(for example) let say that my gas hand is at half a tank and when i drive to school thats about 20 miles away my gas hand drops between half and quarter tank is this normal???? but thanksin advance for yall replies.
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RE: Losing Gas
mine does the exact same thing... almost like when you leave the car sit overnite and start it up and drive it seems to go thru an ungodly amt of gas... but when its warm like you said it acts like normal and hardly ever moves.. pretty much when the engine is cold or w/e you can pretty much look at ur gas gauge one min and the next it will b below where it was!! its pretty annoying and i wanna figure out the prob 2 lol... My guess could it possibly a fuel sensor in your gas tank going bad cause my gas gauge tends to bobble sometimes like say i am at a half tank and the needle suddenly drops below half tank (as such in the morning) and if you keep driving a few more mins.. you will notice the needle will climb itself back up past the half tank mark? i really dont get it either.. [:@]
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RE: Losing Gas
Sounds a lot like a fuel tank float problem to me. Has any of you yo yo's checked you fuel mileage yet. Fill your tank, set yor trip odometer and drive the car till you reach say 200 miles then refill the tank. how many gallons did it take to drive 200 miles. So if lets say you refilled useing 10 gallons of fuel and had just ran 200 miles then your fuel mileage would be 20 miles per gallon. Simple math just take the number of miles divided by the number of gallons.Hmmm I'd be checking that first before changing parts. It's just like climbing a ladder you go one rung at a time to get to the top. Now go check your fuel mileage so we can figure out the problem.
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RE: Losing Gas
If after checking the fuel milage as suggested before and the milage seems low you might check the temp. sensor.If it dosent tell the ecm the correct temp. at start up then the car will run rich until it warms up.Also is the thermostat working properly?A cold engine always uses more fuel to run.
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