Smelling Garage bulls**t and need a bit of confirmation pls.

[VolvicWill]

Hello, thanks for reading. I've got a Volvo v70 2004 D5 2.4, and it's just been in the garage because of a pretty major fuel leak. According to my garage, who have been exemplary in the last 2 years, the fuel leak turned out to be some pipe split or broken on the top of the fuel tank. they removed the fuel tank and fitted a replacement fuel pump. When I picked up the car last week the mechanic said to me "Don't worry about the fuel gauge being out, the car needs to re-learn about the amount of fuel in the tank". At the time he told me that I thought I had caught more than just a whiff of bovine excrement.

I paid up quite a lot as it goes and took the car to the nearest filling station and filled the car up completely with diesel and have been driving it around for 4 days. Since I started using the car the fuel gauge does not move from its off-position on the left hand side of the gauge's range when the car is started and stays there. The Miles To Empty on the trip computer reads "---". So my question is, will the fuel gauge and Miles To Empty actually start working at some point or had the mechanic most likely forgotten to re-plugin the sender unit on the tank and didn't want to take it all apart again? Cynical sod eh ?

[Shinsplintz 101]

Repost in the v70/S60 section - phase 2s - which is what yours is, this is the earlier phase 1 section. You'll get more specific advise from them.

But in my humble opinion your man is having a jolly. Take it back & get him to sort it. It's a sender unit - it can't learn bugger all. He's either broken it, or as you say, not replugged the electrical connection. Either way, his issue, not yours. Good luck.