Q: My fuel is evaporating out of my car and my car is only letting me fill it up 1/3 of the way
I just replaced the gas cap so I'm hoping its that for the evaporation part but my gas isn't feeling up all the way but I know my gas gauge is messed up so could it be that I have no clue
My car has 188000 miles.
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