At 04:01 PM 10/20/2009, David Beierl wrote... >Half-full is how the gauge has behaved on both my '84 and '89. Do >you really think that der Volks at VDO would put significant-looking >marks on the gauge for no reason? We're more used to them putting on >tiny insignificant-looking marks that are intensely meaningful My '81 (both sender and gauge were tested/calibrated according to Bentley when I replaced the tank) hits the first mark at about 75-80 miles (I get 19-20 MPG), and the second at about double that. Note that all the marks are the same length, _except_ the second one which is shorter. That's all consistent with the smaller mark being 1/2 tank. The gauge is non-linear, it drops much faster near full. Perhaps they changed the sender on later years so it reads more linearly. |
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