Flat battery causing fuel gauge to stop working

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May 18, 2008 | 06:08 AM
  #1  
Can anyone please help. My Audi A4 1.9TDI (2002) was stood for only 4 days and the battery went flat. I recharged it and it started OK but now my fuel gauge is reading zero and the fuel warning light is on even though I have half a tank. The date and time has also reset to 2001. Is there something I can do to fix this or will it have to be an Audi garage job?
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Sep 8, 2008 | 09:05 PM
  #2  
Wow. Exact problem that I have. I jumped my Audi A4 1.8T this morning and my fuel gauge is not working. Did you ever figure out what went bad?
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Sep 9, 2008 | 12:46 AM
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Well, the time does that whenever my battery gets low, and my fuel gauge did that after a 3 week stint in the Audi Stealership (I can't say this enough, AVOID KINNEY MOTORS IN VERMONT LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!). It came back after time. Like, 2 weeks. A couple of empty/refill cycles will do it. I drove 250-300 miles and filled it twice, first time I got nothing, second time worked like a charm.

Hasn't done it since, and that battery has been nothing but issues, I just got a new battery the other day. Holy crap was that a pain to swap. Oh well though, she's working now, and its an Interstate battery.
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