I just bought a 95 Toyota Corolla, the gas guage is stuck above full, how do I fix it?

Answer 1

You already have good answers. Hopefully it won't cost too much to fix it.

My real reason for answering is to say "Congratulations on buying a Corolla!!!" I traded in my 1994 Corolla a while ago and it had over 320,000 miles on it and the only things I replaced with all that mileage other than the usual maintenance stuff was the battery once, the water pump and the alternator. It still had its original exhaust system! I bought the car new. Enjoy!

Answer 2

Hi, This is something which might have happened if your car went into a pit after filling the gas to fill and as the car is old, it might have
1. got stuck some where and you can bring it back to normal trying to go in the pit once again:) - not recomended.
2. Ask your mechanic to look into this you go for oil change next time unless you want to go right now in case u runnin out of gas and u wont come to know.
3. in some old cars, the mechanism used to be quite manual, the way you have the water level indicators in the old water storage tanks and if the tank if full, it will not come down even if u switch off the car... (You can check the gauage again after driving 100 miles or so and u can be sure about the $3 in that case)

Answer 3

I know exactly how to fix this.
Make sure your tank is almost empty. Maybe carry about 1/2 gallon of gas in your trunk and drive the car until it starts to sputter like it is running out of gas. Don't let it run out completely as catalytic converters sometimes explode if there is any back fire.
anyway, then stop put your 1/2 gallon in and the find the nearest parking lot that has speed bumps. Safely drive fast over the speed bumps several times You are trying to make the float inside your tank dislodge itself. Or you could drive fast down a bumpy dirt road. If you do this with too much gas in the tank the gas will hold the float in place. do this safely and don't get a ticket.

Answer 4

Your problem is either in the gauge itself, or getting bad data. To test the gauge, you must disconnect the wiring and see if the needle drops, if not the needle is truly stuck and you need a new gauge. If the needle falls, the gauge is getting bad data. Most likely the data is from the sender unit (the float in the tank), but it could also be in the wiring. Sometimes the wiring gets "grounded" (shorted) and the signal is the same as if the float is at the top, thus the needle is on "full" -- GOOD LUCK!!!

Answer 5

Is it really stuck? On our Corolla it stays at over full for the first few gallons of use after filling the tank.
If it is stuck, go to a mechanic.
PS It may also be that because of the better gas mileage you are not used to burning so little gas.

Answer 6

You have to first determine whether the gauge itself is physically jammed, or if the sending unit in the gas tank is misbehaving. It could be that the needle in the gauge is bent or otherwise frozen.

But I've found more frequently that the sending unit in the gas tank on older cars goes bad.

Best to you.

Answer 7

Tap on the area the gage is. If the needle moves and then peg back to the full position you may have a bad fuel sending unit. If banging on it fixes it and then it does it again the Gage may be bag. Or you have a bad ground to either one

Answer 8

Stuck on full, almost always the ground wire. Probably at the sending unit on the tank.

Answer 9

It looks like the flow in the tank is broke or caught up. once you pass to have it restoration run the tank to all maximum empty. or you're able to do what I did in case you have V6 you get 3 hundred miles to a tank V8 250 miles 4 cylinder 4 hundred. in case you prefer to be low-priced.

Answer 10

take it to a autoshop, sounds like the float in the gas tank is stuck