Hi there! I'm a n00b....not only to this board, but to the world of Honda as well. I've searched here but couldn't find anything on this topic...maybe I'm not looking right?

So this past weekend I bought a '95 Civic DX. There is absolutely nothing remarkable about this car. It's completely stock, except for the rims and stereo head, and someone painted the instrument cluster and the areas around the door handles white. You know you're jealous

Haha....anyway....when I first drove it, I noticed that the fuel gauge was reading about 1/4 tank...then it would dip to 1/8....then go back up. I put gas in it after I bought it, and it stayed right at full for a while, so I thought maybe it was a problem when the tank was low, but now it's doing the dropping again....full, then down to 3/4...up to full...down to 3/4...and so on.

I read somewhere that on some of the newer Hondas, this is a compatibility problem between the gauge and the sensor in the tank (or something like that), and the only fix was to replace the entire gauge cluster. Is it the same for this year, or is there an easier fix? Or should I just stick with reading the dips instead of the highs?

Thanks!

Stephanie

 

Both of my Civics have done this. I always thought it was due to the design. It's annoying, but won't hurt anything. It'll go up when you turn left, and down when turning right IIRC.

 

the gauge moving slowly when turning (or shortly after) is very normal. But if it jumps that is not.

Jumping like that tends to be a loose electrical connection, but the fuel gauge is seriously internally damped so rapid jumping is the sign of a bad connection in the gauge itself.