Originally Posted By CBM
...One of its electrical boffins told me:

1. That this is a problem more prevalent in 2011-14 M3Ws. Since then, an improved sender has been fitted. He claimed that the older ones will show zero when there is about a third of a tank left; the newer ones when there are c.two gallons left.

2. That fitting a longer sender is unlikely to help by itself as the fuel gauge is calibrated to the factory-fitted device.
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These are contradictory statements. If the gauge has been calibrated there wouldn't be a problem!


M3W5sp 2015, MSCC, MTWC, Oxon UK