Q: Fuel gauge not working

asked by on October 06, 2017

My fuel gauge needle doesn’t read correctly. Changed both of the fuel pump and the float and nothing. When it gets to half the tank the car stops if I’m driving like it doesn’t have gas but it reads half a tank. When I put gas it starts back up. Also when I accelerate sometimes the car feels like it wants to stop and that’s when the car dies on me.

My car has 144000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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