my boy bought a gauge cluster because he needed to replace his old one. so we get it and install it and everythings fine, but then the gas gauge plummets down as far as itll go. so we take it back out and check all the connections and tighten screws ect. and it fixes it a little but it works intermittently.

do these gauge clusters really short out this easily? i was told that it shorted out because we didnt disconnect the battery first. i dunno ive never disconnected a battery before just to install a gauge cluster. do these things really short out this easily or is the seller just BSin my friend?

 

Ive never disconnected the battery to pull the gauge cluster and Ive never had a problem

 

ive never done it on ANY car. simple plug and play parts that arent an airbag? why would you disconnect the battery for that?

 

Seller must be BSing cause I've removed my cluster so many times without disconnecting the battery and I've never had any issues.

 

word i told my boy to file a paypal claim

 

Does he have much gas in the car? My old guage cluster used to do this. But it was just when I went around a sharp corner when I had about 1/4 tank left. It would go well past E but then come back up.

 

hes got a 1/4 tank, but he isnt driving it around. so its not the corner thing. the needle goes all the way down slowly, just like it fills up. and it doesnt just go to empty. it goes ALLLLLLL the way down. but its intermittent seemingly to the gauge cluster connections. as in messing with them makes it come back or go away. definitely wasnt happening with the old gauge cluster.

 

Mine went well past E as well. When the tank is super low it happened to me

 

It moves like that based on the position of the fuel level sender. Take a left turn and watch it rise, take a left and it will drop.

 

Sometimes it went down just going straight lol. It was a crazy guage needless to say but the light would come on the same time regardless. Now I have money and dont have wait to fill up.....awww the old days

 

yeah he probably got a bad cluster. He did get the same year as his own, right? 95/96/97 OR 98/99?

 

mines does the same thing goes up and down but only when its close to E

 

yes.

im familiar with the level moving while turning, thats no big deal. even when i ran out of gas my needle never went down half this far.

 

my needle goes down when I drive the car... it starts at the top, and the more i drive the more it goes down

just teasing, GG. Have your buddy get his $$ back, he got a bad cluster bro

 

hear that, luckily he used paypal

 

Have you tried putting more gas in it? That should make the needle go back up.

 

That's a temporary fix, though. And quite expensive. There's gotta be a better way

 

if you tape the needle to the F then youll never run out....

 

ooh that might work...

 

Took mine out a couple of times with no problems when putting back in....

 

did you swap the gas gauges to see if it was faulty?

and now the whole cluster is faulty? swap back in the old one to see if it does the same?

 

cant swap back in the old one. he had to do a wire swap he was having center console issues. its all resolved now but this gauge cluster has problems. when i tightened the screws on the back it seemed to help for a minute.

 

i pulled over 100 clusters never once disconnected the battery, they dont short out like this,

 

thanks, thats what i figured. same here.