Originally posted by Ray:
Someone recently stated of a knowledge of programming of the fuel sender or guage.. people were complaining of poor mileage so it was programmed to go down slower at first, then faster at the end to make up for the slow period.


Not that I jumped all over the theory, just telling what I read.


Ray


That would be another fellow CEGer and me. Here is a link to how fuel tanks work.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-gauge1.htm

Read on to the part to where they talk about the microprocessor and tinkering with it. The other fellow CEGer (I can't remember his screename) said he read in a magazine (maybe Popular Mechanics? I'm getting old ) about fuel tanks and I remember reading an article some years ago about either GM or Ford who got complaints from their customers about bad gas mileage and they reprogrammed the computers and the complaints were reduced significantly.

"Always do the cheap and easy ones first." 1996 V6 ATX 96K miles