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[Thundercloud]

Is there any way to adjust the brightness of the LED's on the chromed fuel gauge? Most of the time the sun reflecting off of the chrome makes it impossible to see your fuel gauge.

Cool idea, but stupid design!!!!

[trwtow]

cant see mine either during the day I just depend on the miles til empty readout on the odometer
we gave up the guage for the extra speaker. the upside is you will have nice tunes while pushin it to the gas station

[Thundercloud]

LMFAO!!!!  Never thought about that, but now it makes perfect sense!!!

[dayne66]

I just 'cup' my left hand around it and can usually see the dots OK.

[grc]

Another "brilliant" idea from the style over function folks in Milwaukee.  Nothing beats a fuel gauge that you can't read in daylight.  I suppose you could buy two bikes and just keep the one with the LED gauge for evening rides.

As for the other gauges, IMHO Harley could have kept the fuel gage and the oil pressure gauge in the fairings, eliminated the basically worthless air temp and voltage gauges, and placed the tweeters in the two open holes.  Problem solved, without resorting to the troublesome flush mount cap and gauge.  But I don't really think the reason for the flush mount cap and gauge had anything to do with putting the tweeters in the fairing.  It was just another styling change.  Plus they had this big overstock on Chinese gas caps and gauges they needed to move.

Jerry

[Puzzled]

You can always pull one of the gauges and replace it with a fuel gauge.

Rich disconnected his tank gauge and installed a fairing gauge (he eliminated the tweeters).

[Barmats]

I just 'cup' my left hand around it and can usually see the dots OK.

I do this, too - can always read the dots in bright sunlight.

[Twolanerider]

Another "brilliant" idea from the style over function folks in Milwaukee.  Nothing beats a fuel gauge that you can't read in daylight. 

Not sure what difference it really makes Jerry.  Harley's fuel gauges have never been accurate enough to worry about being able to read them anyway.... 

[grc]

Not sure what difference it really makes Jerry.  Harley's fuel gauges have never been accurate enough to worry about being able to read them anyway.... 

That is true Don, but at least the old gauges with needles could be seen and read without cupping your hand around them to block ambient light, or leaning down to stick your eyeball an inch from the gauge.  I know, maybe Harley needs to add another accessory for the flush cap and gauge crowd.  How about a nice stick-on combination glare shield and magnifier/contrast enhancer?  And only $149.95 so it would be a hot seller.

Jerry

[CowboyBagger]

You can always pull one of the gauges and replace it with a fuel gauge.

Rich disconnected his tank gauge and installed a fairing gauge (he eliminated the tweeters).

I went with handlebar mirrors after putting on the Yaffee bars.  Moved my tweeters to the fairing mirror holes. Installed Dakota Digital Fuel and Oil Temp gauges.  I ran out of gas twice with the stock gauge that you can't see!  Much more accurate also.

Cowboy

[timo482]

i always have to pee long before i need gas...

if i am working where i can ride to work [not so far this summer the job has a mile long dirt and mud road to get to my tool trailer] i just get gas every day and that takes care of it - if im farther away than that i park my camper somewhere close, ferry my bike to the site and basically live there till the job is done.

this summer there is no point so the bike is sitting a lot 

mud mud mud mud - mud mud mud mud - wonderful mud!... repeat while pulling trucks that are stuck with the dozer... *sigh*

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[cvo 2012 rootbeer]

okedokey people just saying hello and yes never ever trust the gas light it lie,s my 07 and now my 2013 glide i go by miles
 my best friend has a 2012 street glide. he tell,s me it has a 4.5 gallon tank.
I tell him he.s nut,s he say,s the light go,s on and it only takes 4.5 gallons lmao
he has owend this bike a year and did not know it had a 6 gallon tank.
and yes he is a biker for life.
but i could not believe he dident know. i am just finding my way around hear any one from western mass look me up

[grc]

okedokey people just saying hello and yes never ever trust the gas light it lie,s my 07 and now my 2013 glide i go by miles
 my best friend has a 2012 street glide. he tell,s me it has a 4.5 gallon tank.
I tell him he.s nut,s he say,s the light go,s on and it only takes 4.5 gallons lmao
he has owend this bike a year and did not know it had a 6 gallon tank.
and yes he is a biker for life.
but i could not believe he dident know. i am just finding my way around hear any one from western mass look me up

Your friend could fairly easily "fix" his gauge, or insist H-D do so.  There are some folks with 6 gallon tanks that actually report pretty accurate gauge and miles to empty readings.  It's not that it's impossible, the problem is Harley is so inconsistent.  It's a part of that entire "quality is job 101298" thing that Harley management embraces so strongly.  Job 1 is cheapening the pizz out of the parts, Job 2 is screwing around the employees so they'll be highly motivated, Job 3 is sourcing as many parts as possible to the cheapest and lowest quality folks they can find, etc.

Btw, I've mentioned this many times in the past, but once more can't hurt I suppose.  Strictly using the odometer as your fuel gauge is not any better than relying on a bad fuel gauge, especially if you prefer to stretch your gas stops as far as possible.  The odometer method ASSUMES way too many things, like getting the exact same amount of fuel in the tank every time AND remembering to reset the odometer at the exact same level each time, then buying the exact same fuel each time so there is no mileage variation due to things like alcohol percentage, then driving the exact same way under the exact same conditions, etc.  In other words, instead of just one variable with a poorly calibrated gauge, you have a multitude of variables with the old odometer method.  Besides, you paid Harley good money for that POS gauge, it should work.  If the radio didn't work correctly would you just turn it off and sing old show tunes to yourself instead?

JMHO - Jerry

[CVORYDA]

Mine popped up while drying my bike and it won't stay down.  How do I fix this?

[Breakout]

Why use a fuel gage on a HD ? It wont work anyway !!! 
Just use a dipstick , or Stop every 150 Miles at a gas station, when using your fuelgage ,
one day you will be pushing your bike to the Gas station