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    Default 2018 F3L fuel gauge problem

    I notice on the last few gas fill ups my digital fuel gauge is 1 bar short of full. Today I made sure the fuel was to bottom of filler neck like it should be. Even tried to added twice more so is full. Miles per tank seem the same as always. Has this happened to anyone else? Could it be the sending unit is bad or a digital bar light out.
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    It's normal for me and nothing to worry your head about.
    Ours is a red, black and chrome 2017 F3 Limited. Bought new in 2/2019. The avatar is my first bike back in 1952, a Simplex Servi-Cycle. Photo taken at the Barber Museum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JP58 View Post
    I notice on the last few gas fill ups my digital fuel gauge is 1 bar short of full. .....

    WOW!! You musta got a good one if it's worked up until now!! Many do that from the first couple of re-fuel fill-ups!!

    But RICZ is right, it's normal and nothing to worry about! The gauges tend to be juuust a little erratic in their readings; the 'low fuel' warning lights too, altho possibly not quite so much.... so one way or another you'll probably just end up doing what the rest of us do, which is re-set a trip meter every time we gas up & then ride aware of how many miles we travel before needing to fill-up next! cheers:
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    Mine always went to full. 17k miles on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JP58 View Post
    Mine always went to full. 17k miles on it.
    WOW, 17K on a fill up? How do you do that?
    Ours is a red, black and chrome 2017 F3 Limited. Bought new in 2/2019. The avatar is my first bike back in 1952, a Simplex Servi-Cycle. Photo taken at the Barber Museum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RICZ View Post
    WOW, 17K on a fill up? How do you do that?
    Amazing huh. Ha.Ha.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RICZ View Post
    WOW, 17K on a fill up? How do you do that?
    He got one of those "experimental" fuel injection systems that the big oil companies don't want us to know about.

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    The fuel gauge readout can be calibrated in BUDS. Have your dealer re calibrate the gauge. Mine reads full when I fill up and when the gas light comes on (last bar) it takes 5.5 gal to fill. But it was not that close as delivered. This does not require a megatech version of BUDS, just the dealer licence.

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