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Old 09-08-06, 08:10 AM
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Hi guys,
I also have a similar problem and the banging in the dash board does the job for the speedometer and tachometer but not for the fuel gauge needle. The thing is that my fuel gauge doesn't accuratly show the fuel level in the gas tank. It shows that the tank is empty when it's actually half full. In order to get it to work I ordered a completely new buoey and the whole new fuel gauge instrument from Lexus Austria in Vienna. Installed the new instruments and the bouey but the problem presisted and got even worse. It started kind of a chain reaction, my speedometer and tachometer started gettin' lazy during high humidity and temperatures here in Belgarde, Serbia.

Please help on how to get the all those instruments working again normally beacuse there aren't any Lexus services except Toyota ones.
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read the first thread in the forum. you likely need to replace the whole gauge cluster.
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read the first thread in the forum. you likely need to replace the whole gauge cluster.
Already did that it still doesn't work prpoerly. It shows the maximum and minimum fuel quantaty until the warning lamp turns on. It doesn't show anything in between, it's either all the way up or down. Any other ideas
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Originally Posted by branko77
Already did that it still doesn't work prpoerly. It shows the maximum and minimum fuel quantaty until the warning lamp turns on. It doesn't show anything in between, it's either all the way up or down. Any other ideas
You might have a fuel sending unit problem. Just a thought. Never heard of the symptoms you discribe.
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i had already changed fuel sending unit and the fuel gauge instrument on the panel and still have problem with fuel level
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