Fuel gauge

Hopefully you lot can help settle a 'discussion' my Bro in law and I are having about fuel gauges.

Where is 'half' on the gauge?



Working from Left to right
Empty (end of orange bit
Quarter (other end of orange bit)
Half
3/4's
Full

That's what I reckon anyway.

Ian

Second one on the right middle the thicker of the two.

The orange bit is telling you at the right side that you are on the last 2.5 gallons off fuel in a 13 gallon tank.
The next to the left is the 1/4 mark the wide one in the middle is the 1/2, and the thick one on the right is the full.

So isn't it a wee bit fuelish to argue over a gauge?

If it is in the orange, fill it up, don't drive it with the needle in the orange then add a pound or two of fuel and drive until you do, if you have an in-tank pump, then you stand to burn it up at the less than 1/4 mark or less for extended periods of time, as the fuel isn't just fuel to the engine, but also coolant for the running in tank fuel pump motor.

Yeah thick one in the middle is half. 

Briano1234 said

Second one on the right middle the thicker of the two.

The orange bit is telling you at the right side that you are on the last 2.5 gallons off fuel in a 13 gallon tank.
The next to the left is the 1/4 mark the wide one in the middle is the 1/2, and the thick one on the right is the full.

So isn't it a wee bit fuelish to argue over a gauge?

If it is in the orange, fill it up, don't drive it with the needle in the orange then add a pound or two of fuel and drive until you do, if you have an in-tank pump, then you stand to burn it up at the less than 1/4 mark or less for extended periods of time, as the fuel isn't just fuel to the engine, but also coolant for the running in tank fuel pump motor.

Fuelish ha ha.

Damn it that means he was correct.

Seems very odd to me as the thinner of the two looks to be in the middle of the face.

Still as my sender is a replacement from a scirocco in a scrap yard and the tank is a replacement its all over the place anyway.

I prefer to think of it a guide on a Mk1 anyway!

Cheers for the answers chaps

Ian

I fill up when the needle gets to the thin line (1/4 tank) best practice to not run the car in the orange (red).