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Gas Gauge Stopped Working!

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Old Dec 6, 2010 | 11:13 AM
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Gas Gauge Stopped Working!

I was driving my '07 GT one last time before putting it away for the winter today, and after my drive I stopped with a quarter tank to fill up in preparation for storage. After pumping approximately 12 gallons in the needle only went up to just over a half tank and stopped. When I got home I shut the car off and then restarted it to see if the gauge would show full after cycling the power, no luck, it came up to half a tank and stopped again!
Anyone else had this problem? If so how was it fixed?
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Old Dec 6, 2010 | 12:23 PM
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Sounds like a bad instrument cluster , a lot of us have had them go bad. Do a search there's a lot of info ...
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Old Dec 12, 2010 | 12:23 PM
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You might try a 20 oz. bottle of Chevron Techron and fill (I would use preimum gas) and run until almost empty. If the first tank doesn't fix it, run a second tank of straight gas through and then follow with a second 20 oz.bottle of Techron & preimum gas & run until about empty. This is a known problem caused by sulphur in today's gasoline. I have read Ford recommends this procedure. Good luck.
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Old Dec 12, 2010 | 12:34 PM
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its the fuel sending unit on these cars. they stopped using gold and started using silver in them and the sulphur clogs the unit.

my old 2006 mustang went though 3 of them under the tsb.
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Old Jan 28, 2011 | 10:15 PM
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Switched gas from Chevron to BP fixed the problem. But it does freak you out when it happens...
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