My Fuel Guage Is Dead

[LEXDOGG]

About a week ago i filled my car full of gas. the guage read fine until I got home and turned off my car. I them got back in it after 30minutes and i noticed that my fuel guage read empty. i thought I was trippin' , so I checked for leaks and nothing. So i then went back to the gas station and pumped .40 cents into my tank and it was full. i said screw it and drove like that all week untill i almost ran out of gas. When it almost ran out of gas the orage light(low fuel) was on. What should i do?

LEXX

[99lsguy]

So you think the low fuel light is accurate?

Just no movement in the needle?

[obergc]

You may have a bad capacitor on one of the circuit boards in the instrument cluster although I think it usually is a slow or erroneous reading. It would be the first thing I would check. There is a lot written on this subject here.

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthread...15&pagenumber=6

[obergc]

Here's another document describing a repair for a fuel gage problem.

Curt

Lexus_Fuel_Gage_Repair.doc

[LexusPete]

Welcome to the club LEXDOGG. I have a similar problem with my own guage, along with a string of other "Lexus" problems. Before I bought a Lexus, I though that they were "creme de la creme". Seems Toyota goofed on this creation.

[LEXDOGG]

So you think the low fuel light is accurate?

Just no movement in the needle?

Yup, the light is accurate but the guage is not! I was thinking the sending unit.