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Originally Posted by Autoban View Post
Sorry, I misunderstood. Does the pointer move off the stop up to 0, or does it stay all the way down? I drove my car to the airport this morning, but I can't remember if the 0 is a little above the pointer resting point or not. However, we know now the resistor values:

0 bar - 9.5 ohms
5 bars - 168.9 ohms

Get a 165 ohm resistor and place it between the wire of the sender unit and ground and see if your gauge moves up close to the 5 bar mark. Just for cross checking I would also get a 80 ohm resistor to check if the gauge indicates in-between.

Juergen
I'm not sure where in relation to the zero mark the needle is (at or below). At first the needle bounced ever so slightly (perhaps 1/4 needle width), but now it's just stuck at zero.
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