More woe...Fuel Gauge stuck...

[Quickurt]

Could be any number of things, most of them simple, two of them expensive.

"If you feel like you're under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-Mario Andretti (cliche!)

"Dad taught me everything I know, but he didn't teach me everything he knows."
-Michael Andretti

[Tool Pants]

There is a problem with some 2002s. There are hoses in the fuel tank. When the tank is empty the fuel level float can get hung up on the hoses and give you a false reading of an emptly tank. Porsche issued a bulletin on this in 2004. The fix is to tie the hoses out of the way of the float.

You might just keep driving the car and see if the float frees itself.

I hope you put in a total of 10.4 gallons, and not 5 plus 10.4. The tank does not hold 15 gallons....

[BoxsterLewis]

When i fill up i got 16+ Gallons..it was almost $70 to fill up yesterday

[fragdude]

Thanks for the tip tools pants! I'll prolly try some hard accel/braking to try and dislodge it

As for the tank, I believe the manual said it could hold something like 17 gallons...Porsches generally have relatively large fuel tanks (my brothers is 22 gallons)

[Tool Pants]

I just looked at a 2002 owners manual and it is 16.9 gallons. The most I have been able to put in in 9 years of ownership is about 13.5 with 15 miles remaining on the obc, so you guys are running these things dry.

It might just cure itself once the fuel level starts to go down and the fuel sloshes around to dislodge the float.

[fragdude]

ergg...lets hope I don't have that long! the fuel gauge is showing about 2 mm above E. It would be a total bummer if I was trying to dislodge the float and just ran out of gas....

[rick3000]

If you can't get it dislodged, a cheap solution would be to do the OBC hack for about $50. Then you will get your miles till empty, which is all I use now. I rarely use the gauge anymore.
But the OBC may be dependent on the gauge.