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Hi Guys,

I wonder if anyone else has come across this.

I was filling up petrol the other day (tank had 1/8th left) and as soon as I started, the pump started cutting out, like when it thinks that tanks full.

I tried again at another station thinking that it was a faulty pump, but the same thing happened again initially, even when holding the lever half pressed. But after around 20litres I was able to hold the lever half way without cutting out, but not fully. It took like 5mins to fill up aahhhhhhh :tsktsk:

Any advise

Cheers

Sunil K

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I got this on my Lex, Basically what's happening is in the nosle of the pump is a fume sensor when the fumes from the petrol bounce back and hit it this cuts the pump off (basically makes it think the cars full to prevent over flow). Way around this is to have the pump pulled back a bit from the tank and have it on a angle so that there is air circulating (don't worry this won't cause spillage).

Hope this helps

Dan :)

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its a jap car problem this... it used to happen on my mazda 626 aswell it the same on the lex.

another problem ive got with the lex is the fuel gauge needle takes it time to move up a fill up.

its like the other day i filled up, but the needle didnt move from reserve for a good 5 min.

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I used to have this problem a lot, but as petrol stations have been refurbishing themselves, it's started to go away. Now only occurs at older stations..............either way I always found turning the nozzle through 90 degrees cured the problem :)

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