Gas gauge help please.... Car died
 

So td on my way back to wrk on my lunch break my car decided to die. awesome right? so i call the dealer and explain to him that i got off an exit ramp went to accelerate and the car had no power. then i pushed the clutch in and the car died.. so he says heres a dumb question, do u have gas... so i go yea i put 20 in last night... turn on my car and i have nooo gas... no warning light no beeps nothing. no gas and my range is flashing 76 miles. so apparently SOMEHOW i went through about a 1/4 tank of gas in about 50 miles... i dont see that being possible. so i put gas in the car, it starts up and drives.. :ugh2:

I live 10 miles from work and i had 3 dots on my gas gauge. way more than enought to go 10 miles. i dont have a gas leak that i see yet. im bringing it to the dealer tn and they are going to look at it tm..

So does anyone have any ideas? bad gauge? bad fuel level sender?

My car only has 5200 on it

fuel starvation? was it a steep banked exit ramp?

This has happened a couple of times to me - there is a slightly graded ramp that I take home sometimes which I can take pretty fast if no cars are around me - If my gas is down to about less than 4-5 leds then when i gun it out of the apex as I start climbing uphill the car gets some fuel starvation. Now - the first time i didnt know what was going on so i turned the car off - and that was stupid. The next time I just came to a stop in neutral and waited a while for the car to get leveled - put it in gear and it was ok all the way to the gas station.

Due to this - after every track session I gas up to a full tank :)

TravisJB has def dealt w/ this issue - and i believe has a fix for it

Nah it was a faily level exit ramp. ive took exit ramps doing 75 with 2 dots and climbed hills with 2 dots and never had it starv

thats what i thought at first. it sat for about 30 min and still didnt start and my gas level never went back up.. the gas gauge is the only thing i dont like about the car. i knew it was going to be a problem. lol

My experience was during an autocross. I arrived with 5 dots. After three runs it was showing two dots and flashing xx miles left. After two more runs I left to get gas. Driving on normal roads and under no twisting or hard braking it returned to 4 dots and quit flashing. I filled up with 16 gallons. I figured with all of the sloshing around the fuel gauge pickup wasn't reading the fuel properly. No issues since.

Same thing happened to me last week. Had 3 LED's lit on the fuel gauge, around 60-70 mile range indicated. Took a long sweeping freeway on-ramp and accelerated up to 70MPH before the accelerator stopped responding. Pulled over to the shoulder, car cranks but doesn't fire.

AAA dropped in a gallon of gas, fired right up. I've been trying to keep no less than 1/2 tank in it since..

Thats EXACTLY what happened to me. i just dont feel like filling up every couple days.... yea im lazy haha

Lovely, just put my car in the garage after a road trip with 2 LED's left on and it showing about 44 miles left. haha, I hope its accurate so I can get it to a gas station!

I've never had this problem but for the 1st 6 months or so when i would fill up the 1st LED would not light up but tank was full. I said if this kept up i'd bring it in after i hit about 3K miles it never happened again.

I feel like I always only get like 70 miles or so for the last quarter tank.

I think that there is some problem with the 370Z fuel gauge. It is not very accurate when it gets down to a 1/4 tank or less.

no doubt the fuel gage sucks. in mine the low fuel warning will come on anywhere between 2 and 4 dots never the same each time.

one time i walked on the wild side and drove with no dots showing and all the lines showing for at least 15 miles. whos knows how many gallons are in the tank when the first warning comes on.

I normally fill up at a quarter tank, and when I got to that the first week, I decided to get gas the next day. The next morning, I had an eighth of a tank showing. Apparently the other 1/8 evaporated! It doesn't seem very consistent down low.

so i just called the dealer and my car is done and nothing is wrong with is.. go figure. haha ill just make sure i dont let it go below 1/4 tank

At five (5) dots I fill-up and it takes ±13.8 gallons; the 370Z has an 18 gallons fuel tank.