ok i've got a question for you....now when i bought the machine it was almost out of fuel and it showed one bar...so i put fuel on until it read full on the gauge; now i have driven it almost 18 miles and more than 2 hours and it says it is still full.. whats the deal??? when you look in the tank it is almost half empty i dont know what to think.....thanks in advace if you have any ideas?? how does yours work???

 

anyone>?

 

um maybe a stuck fuel float?

 

there is a float in there? I thought it was just a censor that reads OHMs of resistace 0-100 for an output....annyone else???

 

Polarisman3,

Don't feel bad, I've noticed the same thing. I'll ride for several hours and it never budges off of full. It's the same as you, I'll check the tank and its half empty. You would think when Polaris decided to add the fuel gauge feature they would make sure its accurate. What good is it otherwise? I haven't heard anything from any other forums about a fix yet but I'll keep my eyes open.

 

yeah why would they even bother to do it then when it is more accurate to look in the tank to see....how does it work after the first bar goes down??

 

To be honest, I've never seen it come off of full except when I picked it up new. And thats because they only put about 3 oz. of gas in it! It kinda makes you miss the old reserve system. At least then you knew when you had about a gallon left.

 

so you havent went through a full tank yet.....??? How could Polaris test this when there is a half of a tank of gas and the gauge reads full and say Yep it works great.....geeze or mabey thay didnt test it at all...[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img]

 

On mine once it gets off of saying full, it starts to go down more like it should. However that tank goes down alot deeper than you can see. My gauge does let me know in time when I am about out of gas. When it starts to flash "FUEL" you are on "reserve". I have plenty of time to get back to base when it does this, for others this may be a problem. My EFI went 13 miles on "reserve" I would not test it past that. Once your gauge gets off of full it should start to go down like it should, so just give it time. Once you get some more hours on it, you will see more of how it acts. Just one more thing to get used to in life.....lol.

 

what the heck does 04.5 mean 2004 and a half? lol