WPAWS Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Ok so i put £40 worth of fuel in the car, drove off and tank showing half full with 225 miles in the tank, park up the car at home. about 3 hours later use car for a spot of shopping fuel gauge stays at empty and display is saying please refuel with 0 miles remaining. checked the obvious no fuel spill under the car, car still drives so fuel system is working. pulled the fuel fuse and replaced still no difference worrying as i have a about 380 miles to cover tomorrow and i dont want to guess my fuel any suggestions please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 ran vcds and its thrown back this fault 1 Fault Found: 00771 - Fuel Level Sensor (G) 010 - Open or Short to Plus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niedzial1983 Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Classic a6 c6 fault 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niedzial1983 Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 So your quattro has 2 fuel senders ... 90% of the time its not the sender that fails. You need to yank the bench out. Under there on passenger side there is a plate hold by 3 screws , undo that. Get some contact cleaner from halfords and unpug the wirring harness clean and plug back. If this does not help then let me know there is a stage 2 to this repair 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 Cheers Piotr will give this a shot when i get back later today 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 so just got back from Chesterfield 🙂 about half way my fuel gauge and miles to go display kicked back into life so i`m a happy bunny had to pop another £20 in the tank for return trip but all seems to be working ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niedzial1983 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Can happen on a bump in the road the electical connection is restored : 🙂 but it will fail again soon lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 Cheers m8 somehow i knew you would say that lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 On 5/18/2018 at 8:48 PM, niedzial1983 said: So your quattro has 2 fuel senders ... 90% of the time its not the sender that fails. You need to yank the bench out. Under there on passenger side there is a plate hold by 3 screws , undo that. Get some contact cleaner from halfords and unpug the wirring harness clean and plug back. If this does not help then let me know there is a stage 2 to this repair 🙂 @niedzial1983 started to happen again as you say, i cleaned connector with contact cleaner but still no gauge whats stage 2 please was this the connector i was meant to mine is on drivers side passenger side is just a round white plate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niedzial1983 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 3 hours ago, Paul A6 said: @niedzial1983 started to happen again as you say, i cleaned connector with contact cleaner but still no gauge whats stage 2 please was this the connector i was meant to mine is on drivers side passenger side is just a round white plate You need to undo the plastic ring and take out the sender . There is a connector there that need cleaning or cutting out and solder the cables Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 Cheers m8 let you know if i fix it 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niedzial1983 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Did you plug in vcds to check for faults ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 Fault Found: 00771 - Fuel Level Sensor (G) 010 - Open or Short to Plus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niedzial1983 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Same as last time. Take it out and have a look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niedzial1983 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Plastic ring can be a pain to remove without an "audi special key ". I used a bot of wood and a hammer on mine 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPAWS Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 my garage has recommended a replacement sender he is sourcing the part then quote me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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