Q: Instrument Cluster

asked by on February 27, 2017

My Ford Fiesta SE has a problem with the dashboard lights when driving I notice all of the lights turn on and the gas mileage does not show how much gas is left and tells me it is empty even though I recently filled it up this really confused me then after a couple of minutes it turn all the lights off and everything was working fine this would happen many times a day

My car has 42000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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