Bendy toy
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Aye Bendy, I am using a float from a 2012 TC, didn't know the range just took the whole assembly out of the 2012 including the pump dropped it in to my tank after I took the strip out and it worked. To be honest the whole kit on eBay isn't to bad a price when you consider how much BMW want for yet another shite strip. You might get a float from someone like moto works or other breakers.
Hope you find a cure, I'm mighty glad to get that fecking yellow light out.
JimmyMac
Thanks. I might ask someone at Motorworks or Sherlocks to waft a test meter over it.
But, it's not only that annoying triangle.
The fuel height is used to control fuel pump power. If the gauge shows zero but is otherwise "working" the pump will be running at 100% all the time leading to early wearing out. If the fuel gauge is effectively broken (as happens if you simply disconnect the fuel strip), the pump runs at part load all the time leading to the engine starved of fuel with 7 litres trapped in the RHS of the tank.
It's an unholy complicated lash up when a simple cross pipe from left to right under the tank would do the same job.