I have a 2024 1500 AT4X 3.0 diesel I picked up last Friday. The last day, I've noticed my fuel gauge does not appear to be dropping on the digital display, though my miles remaining indicator does. If I use an OBDII scanner, I can see the PID associated with fuel percentage appears to be accurate. The gauge was stuck at around 95%, but it was reading 80%.
I filled up the tank, and the digital gauge updated to full, but even after driving 60 miles, it hasn't budged, though OBDII and miles remaining both show the fuel level has dropped, so I know the sensor in the tank must be working correctly. It seems like something is 'stuck' with the instrument cluster fuel gauge, or there's some weird behavior going on here that's unexpected. It is strange, though, that when I filled up (the gauge was stuck at around 90-90% if I were to eyeball it) - it went to full, so clearly it at least partially responds.
Full transparency, I had the serial data recall performed, and they did update the radio (this was when -4 was the latest) last Friday. That said, the gauge was working properly afterwards, or at least, was dropping as I burned diesel. The other notable thing that's occurred was I had the battery disconnected for an hour or so the other day while ensuring all the fuses/bolts/etc were tight and I had an emergency meeting come up (old habit from owning Jeeps which are notorious from coming from the factory with things not seated properly.)
The last thing I can think of that's different is my driveway is at a fairly steep angle, and last night I reversed in and parked (tank would be much higher than the engine and depending on sensor location, perhaps reads as lower fuel). I'm wondering if the gauge does some kind of weird compensation if it detects fuel level increasing significantly (when the car leveled out after I drove off) while the car is running? I normally park forward, which has the engine/front of the truck higher than the back/tank.
Has anybody else run into this or have any suggestions on what I might do? I did the hold down the 'hangup' button reset of the infotainment, but that doesn't seem to have changed a thing. It just seems really odd that filling up caused the gauge to go to full, but burning gas does not appear to make it drop, or at least it hasn't budged in the first 70 miles or so I've driven on this new tank of gas. Do I need to perform some kind of procedure to re-calibrate it after pulling a battery for a longer period of time? Or parking reversed up hills?