Fuel gauge wackey

[tranprop]

Just bought this 97 beauty yesterday, but have 2 known problems:

1 Fuel guage either reads completely full or completely empty. It goes back and forth even standing still. Sounds like a short or open circuit. Any history of this problem giving me a clue where to start?

2 Non Bose radio/cd/tape unit accepted a tape, but will not play the tape or eject, in fact, the radio keeps playing with the tape in.


Any help or input?? Thanks.

[ckpaas]

Not being a dick here but read your owners manual.. Also scan through the postes on here, there is a lot of good information.. Congrats by the way.. They are nice cars..

[Indy8]

Please read all the other bad fuel sending unit threads.

[tranprop]

OK, I'm sorry to be a nuisance. I know that most new guys don't bother to search, since I belong to a forum for my Toyota Supra, and one for my Triumph TR7. Before I posted, I read the title of every old post and read many of them. I failed to realize that the topic was covered within the text of a few posts without the title suggesting the fuel gauge problem.

Thanks for your patience and I'm looking foward to some very nice days in this car. It is "white diamond" with sunroof and autobahn package. I feel that God blessed us with this one. It has 70K miles and was purchased from a lady for 7,250. Looks like it just left the showroom.

Happy motoring

[Indy8]

Good deal! WD is the best exterior color. My 97 is Silvermist Metallic. I bought it in 01, two days before 9/11. I'm second owner, it had 50k miles at purchase. Like new also. Original owner is a city councilman here and owns three NAPA stores. Back then I paid $14k for it and felt I did pretty good(wholesale at the time).

[HiLife]

Check your fuel level sensor... that's probably what it is.

HL