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Re: car won't start - parked on grade V70-XC70 01

posted by  someone claiming to be B. De Denko on  Wed Jan 24 12:43 CST 2001 [RELATED]

I have a '98 V70. I've found that if there's not much fuel left in the tank (just above the reserve marker) and I park so that the right side is higher than the left, that the engine starts running rough after several minutes. It's being starved of fuel. No "low fuel" indicator comes on. All I have to do is to make the car level again and the engine will run smoothly. This is due to not having much fuel left, where the fuel pick-up is in the tank, and also due to the computer trying to calculate how much fuel there is. It's inexact because the computer interprets the information from the fuel level mechanism in the tank, and for most instances, the computer is quite accurate. In other words, the fuel gauge gets it's info from the computer, not directly from the tank sensor. This is regarding my '98 V70; I would imagine that your new car is similarly arranged. Let the dealer work the bugs out for you, and you'll have a fun car to drive!





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