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Gen 4 2016 Prius Gas Gauge

Discussion in 'Gen 4 Prius Main Forum' started by bowerda47, Apr 30, 2016.

  1. bowerda47

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    Little help people. Noticed gas gauge on my Gen 4 Prius 3 Touring is divided into eight sections. Seems curious as both my 2009 and 2012 Prius were divided into ten sections. I am aware that the entire world, except the US is on the metric system which is based on tens. So my question is: Are all Gen 4 gas gauges divided into eight sections or only vehicles sold in US? And if all, why the change? Thanks for any help.
     
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    Why does it matter?
     
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    The EU version has also 8 marks, but I have seen all sorts of non decimal divisions. And honestly none of these meters are linear in showing fuel use and the only thing I really care about is the beep when reserve is reached ;)
     
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    the pip has 8, one for each gallon, but it's a small tank.
     
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    Well, the tank is actually 43L/9.46gal, so there is no connection between the markers and the quantity in either liters, gallons, decimal or binary notations... ;)
    I think they used whatever they thought looked good... :D
     
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    Thanks all. Question answered
     
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    actually, the pip goes down by 1 gallon per bar. when it starts flashing, the balance is safety.
     
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    You got IMPERIAL gallons. The US Toyota website says 11.3 US gal (but 43L would be 11.4 US gal - whatever).
     
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    My iPhone got imperial gallons... :D
    I simply looked for 43L in gallons and gave me imperial it seems...
    Well, 11.4 is also not a multiple in any way of 8. And when empty there are theoretically 3.4gal... Which is not the reserve...
     
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    right. the gen 4 probably goes down 1.2 or so per bar.
     
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    Old school was cool:

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    making me crazy.
     
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