OK, my car is a 95 Ford Laser Station wagon. Automatic transmission. Works perfectly fine barring two things:
1) the aircon switch is broken (which we're fixing)
2) the problem which I'm about to put up here.
Because my car has a cassette player and not a CD player, my boyfriend gave me his old iPod transmitter so I could play my iPod in the car. Said transmitter plugs into the cigarette lighter, then has the unit which is set to a radio frequency and then plugs into my iPod. If I have it set up, but it's NOT running, it charges the iPod.
When I had it charging the other way on my way from my house to out near Nyoibo's way, the fuel gauge went REALLY funny. It dropped from F to E pretty damn quick, even though I KNEW I had a semi-full tank of petrol in there. Whenever I braked or was climbing up a hill, it would climb up a bit, sitting somewhere around the 1/3 mark (my tank was 2/3 full and the fuel economy on my car is 9L/100km) but afterwards would drop back down to E. I spoke to dad, who said it was normal for the gauge to swing a little bit, but not from nearly F to E pretty damn quick.
We filled it up on the weekend to eliminate a fuel leak and my boyfriend and I also learned about how the fuel sensor works. Driving it BACK home and doing a short trip today, the fuel gauge read fine (this was without said transmitter plugged in)
My question is: What could have caused the fuel gauge to go funny like that? What needs to be fixed?
1) the aircon switch is broken (which we're fixing)
2) the problem which I'm about to put up here.
Because my car has a cassette player and not a CD player, my boyfriend gave me his old iPod transmitter so I could play my iPod in the car. Said transmitter plugs into the cigarette lighter, then has the unit which is set to a radio frequency and then plugs into my iPod. If I have it set up, but it's NOT running, it charges the iPod.
When I had it charging the other way on my way from my house to out near Nyoibo's way, the fuel gauge went REALLY funny. It dropped from F to E pretty damn quick, even though I KNEW I had a semi-full tank of petrol in there. Whenever I braked or was climbing up a hill, it would climb up a bit, sitting somewhere around the 1/3 mark (my tank was 2/3 full and the fuel economy on my car is 9L/100km) but afterwards would drop back down to E. I spoke to dad, who said it was normal for the gauge to swing a little bit, but not from nearly F to E pretty damn quick.
We filled it up on the weekend to eliminate a fuel leak and my boyfriend and I also learned about how the fuel sensor works. Driving it BACK home and doing a short trip today, the fuel gauge read fine (this was without said transmitter plugged in)
My question is: What could have caused the fuel gauge to go funny like that? What needs to be fixed?
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