"fuel" gauge slowly fills up

I don't know if it means anything at all, but when I turned on the car the other day the fuel gauge slowly filled in, from 0 bars at first to 1, 2, 3 ... up to full, which it was. I was a little shocked initially because at first I saw 0 (which I knew was either wrong or I had a very bad malfunction, as it had just charged up fully) and never seen that slow gauge population display before.

Has anyone seen this before - does it mean anything at all? Is it some kind of self diagnosis? Or, just a result of my having actually discharged the car fully (turtled) and then fully charged it in that one session?

Dan

danpatgal said:

Has anyone seen this before - does it mean anything at all? Is it some kind of self diagnosis? Or, just a result of my having actually discharged the car fully (turtled) and then fully charged it in that one session?

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I suspect that's what it was . . . . though I'm not going to try duplicating it just to confirm it

Don

I haven't seen that, and yes Father, I have turtled...

I have never noticed that sort of test on the occasions that I've turtled my car, not even the time I saw the battery light of doom. I'll keep an eye out, though.

Did you disconnect the 12 v. battery, even briefly? If so, maybe the fuel gauge lost its level until it sensed the battery pack's high voltage indicating that it was full.

jray3 said:

I haven't seen that, and yes Father, I have turtled...

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:lol:

let he who is without turtle, cast the first stone


(I haven't seen it either, and I've been to the turtle and back)

alohart said:

Did you disconnect the 12 v. battery, even briefly?

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No, I didn't.

I guess it was the turtle and going to "---" miles remaining and then fully charging after that. I just thought others would have seen it too. I've realized that because I live on a slight hill, I get exhuberant about how far I can go on the way out and freaked out on the way back. It's only about 100-200ft higher than some places I go, but it makes a 10 mile trip use up 12 or 13 RR (or more if I need to defrost), if I make a wrong turn, or need to run a short little errand, all of the sudden I'm scraping the bottom with my turtle, despite my hypermiling. Not fun. I would have avoided this last turtle had there been a public level 2 in downtown York, PA (the nearest was the Mitsubishi dealership, somewhat off the beaten track, as most of them are). So I was relegated to bumming off a friend with super slow level 1 for a few hours. I really hope level 2 charging starts to take hold soon.