Front end noise over bumps, bouncy fuel gauge....Lets see how it goes.

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by Kevine64, Sep 4, 2013.

  1. Kevine64

    Kevine64 Junior Member

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    Brought the car in for a few things to have fixed under my CPO warranty.

    Cover with the oil change door. Mine was just totally missing, they changed that with no issues :)

    Sometimes, more so when full my fuel gauge drops a bar after driving then goes up a bar out of no where. No hard driving and not parking on any hills. do not know what causes it but they are telling me this is normal. I call BS but have nothing to back up my BS call. Anyone have a TSB or a thread telling me what part is screwed up or anything I can do to make them fix this? I know its not right....

    Last thing is there is a metal ratteling noise coming from the front end wheel area when going over bumps or rough areas of road. They first said they couldnt hear it so I went up there and reporduced it from them..... Clear as day but the tech was telling the service advisor they could barely hear it. He needs his ear checked cause I heard it clear as day. I can tell they were going to try and tell me its normal too but I put a quick and fast stop to that BS. They are keeping the car for another day. I found a TSB for a noise but wondering if anyone else had issues like this and could tell me what the issue was and how was it fixed.

    I update as to what they finally do.
     
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    With the fuel gage I'm not talking about seeing it drop a bar. I'm seeing it drop a bar and then go up a bar a few min later then back down again later. Never seen a fuel gauge go up lol. But according to thus dealer it's normal for thus fuel gauge to go up and not just down lol
     
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    The Prius has an analog fuel level sender and a digital gauge. So this kind of "jumping" is normal.
     
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    do not know about analog sender but ive had many digital gauges and never seen this before. But i dont know much about those things either
     
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    Most cars do the same thing with the fuel guage. My work truck will go from 3/4full to the warning saying I have only 50 miles left to 3/4 full again because of a hill.
     
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    I'm on flat ground when it happens. I also belive the prius has a bladder and not. Tank so makes it seem even stranger to me.
     
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    Gen II had the bladder, the Gen III does not.
     
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    If you think rising one bar is bad, wait until you see it rise TWO bars. I spotted this in my 201o several times. I cured this on the 2012 by looking at the fuel gauge much less frequently.

    The fuel in the tank sloshes around quite a bit. If you have a ScanGauge, program in the FLV gauge and watch it, unfiltered. The car's fuel display filters out most of this slosh, but is not perfect.

    My last three analog-gauge cars do/did this too. I don't remember farther back than that.