My recently replaced fuel gauge (sender), with the latest version I am told, takes about 60 miles for it to drop from a full indication, makes sense with the mileage at about half way, then continues to fall rapidly to the fuel warning light and at 1 bar left on the gauge after about 130 miles takes 15 litres to fill the tank. The calibration is obviously far from linear. My local dealership, who has always been very helpful, says they would have to "take a look at it". Is anyone else experiencing similar with the latest fuel sender ?
Yes. Had mine replaced earlier this year. Worked perfectly until last month when it became very slow in recognising a fill up. Now it's becoming inaccurate showing one flashing bar after 90 miles with 4 miles left on the range. When I fill up it only takes less than 13 litres. Very frustrating!
Thanks for that @Majvs and @Pete1950 As long as it is consistent then I can live with it. I will hope that the time I switched the bike on knowing there was half a tank and the gauge showed a full tank to then drop back to the correct reading within a couple of minutes was a one off :Wideyed:
I've just had mine replaced for the 2nd time, Fuel light comes on after about 115 miles, when it shows a flashing bar and a range of around 7 miles it only took 18.6 Lts to fill up. (The previous one at this point would need 19.5 Lts)
This weekend I have discovered that my fuel gauge has become highly accurate, to my astonishment. It shows full when full, half empty when half empty, and even more surprisingly when the gauge shows red and the range zero miles, it really is empty. Don't ask how I found this out.
Mine was OK until I didn't use the bike for about four months last winter. It was all over the place at first but slowly improved over several tankfuls - it now is rather slow to register a fill-up and starts to panic when I've actually got about 5 litres left in the tank. But it is consistent enough for me to be able to adjust things to suit.
