[size=2]We recently embarked on a road trip of roughly 1000 miles. The trip went off without a hitch. We took the opportunity to check the gas mileage. The first leg was early AM and moderate speeds of 70-75 MPH. At our first stop we fueled up and calculated the MPG at 22.1! Later in the day the air temp was close to 100 and we were running about 80-85 MPH and our fuel economy dropped to 20.5. We noticed that the first 1/4 tank was used up quite fast and the remaining fuel (according to the guage) went down at the rate one would expect.

On the return home we gassed up with about 1/3 tank left. We started the car pulled 50ft. into a burger joint, had lunch and got back on the road when we noticed the fuel guage had not moved off the 1/3 of a tank where we started. So we drove a while thinking "did we get gas?". We drove a ways down to the next available Shell station and attempted to fill up again. It would only accept 1.5 gallons. I was confident that we were topped off. The guage kept dropping as gas was being consumed until the amber reserve light lit up. My wife insisted we get some gas and we filled up again. This time only accepting 7 gallons of fuel. Turning the truck back on the guage registered a full tank.

Has this happened to anyone?

Over all we had a very pleasant roadtrip experience with our 2001 ML320.

 

FUEL LEVEL SENDERS GO BAD IN 1998 -2002 ML LIKE CRAZY GO GET IT REPLACED

 

sounds like u need a sending unit/pump , the yare one assembly , dealer parts cost alone is approx $450 + approx 2.5hrs install , not cheap! I have pumps/sending units available(oem) if interested e-mail me at vwgti2005@aol.com

 

I guess I'll take it to the dealer and pay my $75.00 deductable then.....[:'(]