Q: The fuel gauge falls down to empty after only traveling a couple hundred miles, but it takes very little money to refill with gas.
I went through the checklist describing symptoms of a bad fuel pump but none of those things apply to my 1998 Dodge Neon. It accelerates fine, no hesitation in starting, no whining noise or anything else on that checklist.
My car has 97810 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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