# Gas tank overfilled

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-tank-overfilled/32438>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [June 27, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-tank-overfilled/32438 "2009-06-27T00:19:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![madwomanintheattic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@madwomanintheattic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/madwomanintheattic)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-tank-overfilled/32438/1 "2009-06-27T00:19:35Z")

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I don’t have a husband; I did it myself. My bright yellow '07 Beetle ran fine afterwards, but, as mentioned in a previous post on this question, the gas gauge is not registering. Can I fix it myself and if so how?

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**Author:** ![Wha-Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@Wha-Who](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Wha-Who)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-tank-overfilled/32438/2 "2009-06-27T02:56:00Z")

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Check the easiest thing first. Make sure that all of your fuses are good. Next, look inside your trunk to see if your car has a removable plate in the trunk to provide access to the fuel pump/fuel gauge assembly that is inside the tank. Draining the gasoline, dropping the tank, removing and replacing the fuel gauge sender and then replacing the tank is a very nasty job. I have done it once and don’t care to do it again so hope for the access plate.

Possibly you have a wiring problem or a dashboard gauge cluster problem and it is not the gauge sender in the tank that is at fault.

I suggest that you sign up for free of charge and post your question on an appropriate forum on [www.vwvortex.com](http://www.vwvortex.com).

It is impossibly to know from a distance of your ability to repair this problem.

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**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-tank-overfilled/32438/3 "2009-06-27T03:34:53Z")

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Figure out how much driving you usually do to burn off about a half a tank of gas. Once you figured you’ve reach that point, take a rubber mallet and give the bottom of the gas tank a few good smacks. If the float is hung up, doing this sometimes jars it loose.

Tester