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2010 RT-S digital gas gauge no longer showing full - need to remove sender to check?

langevn

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Hi. I've been having this little issue with the gas gauge. I am currently using the main digital dash gauge, I have replaced the analogue gas gauge with an oil pressure gauge, so gas goes direct to main screen. But lately, my gas gauge has been barely showing full. When I fill the tank, it shows about one notch below full. Do I need to remove the assembly to check if anything is broken???
Thank you
 
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I would say you have a sender problem. You could dig into it, or just use your trip set to give you miles on a tank full. You know how many miles you can stretch a tank and go off from that.
 
The gas gauges on these things are notoriously inaccurate - the analogue gauges are worse than the digital gauges on the dash screen, but the digital gauges are still not really great! Especially not on the 2013 & earlier RT's. :banghead:

If you want to find out more & see/read what others have done, just type 'Gas Gauge' into the Search field; tick the 'Search Titles Only' box in the drop-down list below that; submit the search; and settle in for some reading! There's LOTS of info about them having this problem; a couple of posts explaining how some have improved there's, but not resolved it; and heaps that suggest that your best bet is to use the gas gauge as nothing much better than your best guess at how much gas you have less, so you are better off using your trip meter, just like many here already do!! :lecturef_smilie:

You can spend a lot of time & $$ chasing an improvement in your gas gauge accuracy; or you can spend nothing on it, just work out how far you can safely go without ever emptying the gas tank completely (they need to keep at least a couple of quarts remaining in there always, or you WILL start damaging potentially expensive things! :rolleyes: ), and then simply reset a trip meter every time you gas up, never going beyond your safe range...
That'll be more reliable than anything you can do to either the analogue or digital gas gauges, and it'll be a whole lot cheaper in the long too! nojoke

Just sayin' :thumbup:
 
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The 2010 RT-S was notorious for the "gas gauge" problem. I switched mine to the Digital Gauge version. I believe the fix was to just unplug the Analog gas gauge. I was always going to replace the unused gas gauge with something, but I never did.
 
That's what I did - I went from analog to digital on day 1, only last month or so it started to do this, which it never did before. When I went digital, it was over 2 years ago - with no problems until just now.
Thanks for your support, it's very much appreciated.
 
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My Tank RARELY shows full, so I'm depending on the trip meters, & I preferably run ethanol free gas. Have been dealing with this for at least five years. Dealer has investigated (side jobs with tire changes & other work, no luck) and I have noticed a delayed reaction of the gauge - after putting the cap on & riding maybe a mile down the road, it will gain 1 peg - **MAYBE** I can’t say it's due to a specific bump or anything, I just memorize a good safe mileage & reset the trip meter religiously. Don’t overfill it either, that’s whole other headache!
 
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Unless you do a cannister-ectomy, then you can stuff it full!
 
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