Keeping an eye on your vehicle is necessary nowadays, indeed, if you do not do the minimum routine service of it, or if you do not take into account signals of abnormality, you strongly risk to see your car withering away. This is precisely the theme we are going to discuss on this page, one of the symptoms that most interferes with motorists is the fuel indicator light on Kia Picanto 3. To try to help you examine this light, first we will discover what this fuel gauge light on Kia Picanto 3 is meant to, then in a second what you can do if the fuel light turn on on Kia Picanto 3?.
What does the fuel indicator light on Kia Picanto 3 mean?
We will first begin our content by seeing the justification for the fuel indicator light on Kia Picanto 3. The role of this light is to keep you advised of the fuel level in your tank, and works thanks to a gauge that when it passes a minimum level (the reserve) activates the reserve light on your Kia Picanto 3. If you want to know how many kilometers you can do with the reserve of your Kia Picanto 3 do not think twice to have a look at our content which gives you this information. The light will turn on when the engine of your car starts, in the event you pass this famous reserve. It has no other specified use. This system works thanks to a float system that is located in the tank of your Kia Picanto 3.
What you can do if the fuel light comes on on Kia Picanto 3?
And now we’re going to see what you can do if the fuel gauge indicator light turns on on your Kia Picanto 3. As we revealed to you earlier, if the low fuel light turns on on your car it is more than likely that you have no fuel in your tank and your main concern should be to go to the gas pump to fill up. In actual fact, driving regularly on low fuel is not good for your engine, the tanks at the petrol stations are not always very clean and it is possible that the bottom of the tank is packed with foreign matter. Regular driving on the fuel tank will increase the risk that all these impurities will be sucked up by your petrol pump and enter your engine. It is as a result essential, in addition to the risk of fuel failure, not to drive regularly on low fuel with your Kia Picanto 3.
Second possibility, the fuel light on your Kia Picanto 3 lights up when you have a full tank of fuel, in this instance, it is a float or light that is at fault. To solve this problem, you will need to check the fuses in the passenger compartment of your Kia Picanto 3 and if they do not have a specified problem, take your vehicle to a professional to examine the whole float and fuel gauge system of your Kia Picanto 3. For a change of the fuel gauge you should count about 200 euros.
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