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is hearing the gas move normal?

Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:09 PM
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Is hearing the gas moving normal? It's about 3/4 full and on stops and gos I can hear the gas moving back and forth. It just started last night. FYI it's on a 06 Tc
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:15 PM
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. I heard it on mine also an 06. I guess it depends on how hard you stop but it should not hurt anything.
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:18 PM
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When I gutted the rear of my car I was able to hear the fuel sloshing around. With my full interior in i can't hear it...
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:20 PM
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first ive heard of this wierd as the tc is usualy pretty sound proof
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:21 PM
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I always hear gas sloshing around when the tank is full. Anything below 3/4 though, I don't hear it.
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:42 PM
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Turn the radio up.
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by beandip007
Turn the radio up.
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I havnt noticed it in my tC yet but i have noticed it in car that i previously owned
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 04:59 PM
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I should have mention my cars back its gutted. It's been like that for 2 weeks but this is the first I filled it up past half a tank...
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 06:15 PM
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^That's probably why. I only heard it while the rear of my car was gutted.
Old Nov 6, 2008 | 11:03 PM
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i hear mine slush around when its full
Old Nov 7, 2008 | 11:45 PM
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lol i remember when i first heard mine i was freakin out. i thought it was my stomach or my gatorade bottles in the back.
Old Nov 8, 2008 | 04:23 AM
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yes.
Old Nov 8, 2008 | 04:30 AM
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wow, never heard my gas slosh around, but uhm...what do you expect? you think toyota has some special gas tanks that makes the fuel inside immune to the laws of inertia and thus not slosh around when you accelerate, brake and turn?
Old Nov 8, 2008 | 04:31 AM
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I believe you! I hear my cams open and close
Old Nov 8, 2008 | 04:45 AM
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^^You mean valves? Cams rotate...


Maybe I'm just deaf, but I have never heard the gas in sloshing around in any car I've owned
Old Nov 8, 2008 | 04:48 AM
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You can hear it when u accelerate and hit the brakes kinda hard but not too hard
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