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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:33 pm 
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the other day drivin my ba xt put the foot down to go and car spluttered and had nothing put foot down same thing happened pulled over and turned the car off tried to restart and car wouldnt racv came out told me i had no fuel range said i had 110 ks til empty no fuel light was on this has occured before when i have had around 250 till empty when i got the car started it was idling rough but when i drove it for about 2 ks and turned it off it started again straight away and ran smooth and i got that 250 out of the tank has this prob occured with anyone else if so what was the problem racv man recons my instrument cluster needs re calibrating
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:50 pm 
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hmm sounds like your having fuel pressure / supply issues, dose anyone know how to test pressure and whether the pump is being shoddy?
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:07 pm 
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havent had it looked at yet the last time it happened before the other night was about 3 months ago its not a consistent occuring thing
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:53 pm 
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Fuel filter clogged.. or a dodgy batch of fuel..

 

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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:59 pm 
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has happened to me a few time mate.ford said its normal.lol
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:54 pm 
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Just love those intermittant faults.

Could be water laying on bottom of tank. Old trick with carbie motors was to pour a bottle of metho into the tank to absorb it. Don't know whether this will interfere with injectors or filters but should just pass straight through.

It could also be crap in the bottom of the tank being sucked up under hard accelleration. time for a tank clean and be bloody carsful as petrol vapours can suffocate in confined spaces and cause permanent damage.
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As far as ford saying this is normal, send an email to ford australia and ask them to explain.

 

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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:54 am 
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This is common on BA's. I used to work at Thrifty Car Rentals and we used to get this weekly. It's the guages that read wrong, and I believe Ford where re calibrating them because like you said, would show fuel remaining when in actual fact, was no fuel in tank.

Thats just a suggestion.
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:01 pm 
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Metho in the tank won't hurt injectors etc. Toddy had similar probs with his turbo. Turned out to be a bad batch of fuel. Cost the fuel company an absolute fortune to fix it. Were lucky that he could pin it on one servo...only because it was nearly empty when he pulled in and we didn't get 100m down the road before it stopped and wouldn't go at all...newest car I have ever pushed.... :lol:

 

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Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 5:59 pm 
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yeah just got back from mechanics they said that bas cant be recalibrated said that it is possibly the sender unit i changed the fuel filter on weekend and ran injector cleaner through it its been sitting on 375 - 360 till empty and has been fluctuating between them for about6 100 kis of driving C*** of a car
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