Quirky Digital Petrol Gauge

[Boz]

I have a 2003 Toyota celica, which ever since I bought it seems to have had a quirkly digital petrol gauge. Regularly 2 bars will disappear at once, then after a few miles travelling one will re-appear.

It is really annoying. Has anyone else experienced this ? and is that any way to stop it happening ?

[dmjuk]

yeah mine is a bit temperamental too, also it doesn't seem to folow any logic, when i fill

mine up it takes ages for the first bar to move sometimes 20 or 30 miles, then it takes a good 200 miles to get half way, the last half just seems to disappear in abotu hundred miles, and my driving style stays the same throughout

[dolla g]

someone told me that our gauges react on the way we drive. i dunno how true this is. it does make sense though!

[JohnnyC]

someone told me that our gauges react on the way we drive. i dunno how true this is. it does make sense though!

I doubt that - it's not a trip computer :D

As for it going down a bit quick then back up - well it's just the same as a regular guage. Like the regular guage in my MR2 goes up & down depending on whether the car is going uphill or downhill or accelerating quick.