OT: Passat fuel gauge

[sailingfc at dslextreme.com (DY Wong)]

Thanks Drew, that's good to know.  For now, I pulled the sender head and
bent the float arm just a little.  I filled the tank and it appears to be
better than before.  I'll know better when we start refilling the tank.

-Dick-


-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Mac [mailto:type53@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:38 AM
To: sailingfc@dslextreme.com
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: OT: Passat fuel gauge


On 3/30/07, DYWong <sailingfc@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> I'm thinking of pulling the sender and bending the float arm (by trial 
> and
> error) to fix this.  Anyone else seen this problem or have any other ideas
> how to fix this?

On later models you can recalibrate the fuel guage - there's a procedure
that involves draining the tank, filling up with a precise amount of fuel,
and then calibrating the fuel guage  with VAG-COM. Might apply to your 96
Passat.

Drew

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