2005 Dodge Magnum: wrong fuel gauge reading

Filed Dec 30, 2023 · Fuel system · SC

The malfunction to report is after fueling the vehicle will stall out. There is the sign of the fuel sending unit and fuel pump cycling after the ignition is turned on. This only occurs after topping off the fuel. The safety of operation is the stalling may occur while driving as well as at sitting still. When driving and the vehicles stalls causes the steering wheel to stiffen and the must come to a complete stop, placed in park, turn off the ignition and wait for the possible reset. The problem has not been reviewed on my particular vehicle but has been reported by other 2005 Magnum owners. No other manufacturing process has inspected my vehicle. And there are no warning lights that come to indicate there is a problem.

Filed Mar 9, 2015 · Fuel system · 54,860 miles · VA

Upon getting fuel, car would cut out while driving until gas gauge showed about 3/4 full. If manually filled tank to not full, no problem.

Filed Nov 30, 2014 · Engine, Fuel system · 52,000 miles · FL

Purchased a used 2005 dodge magnum rt 5.7 (as is no warranty )on 11/15/14. On the drive home from the dealer, filled the car with fuel and the engine was hard to start and after it started ran for a short time and stalled. After several start stall cycles near the gas station got the car on the interstate and it lost power at speed and ran rough for short periods but did not stall. After aprox. 10 minutes of highway speed the car ran fine. Two weeks later after fill up had the same stalling issues. Having read these cars have history of these issues, I attempted to lower the fuel level by driving the car. The car started and about a 1/2 mile from the house stalled in a busy intersection. Unable to restart the car, had to get towed home. The car started right up when it came off the tow truck. Siphoned 5 gal from fuel tank & can't duplicate failure. No error indications during failures.

Filed Sep 19, 2014 · Fuel system · 35,000 miles · AZ

After filling up the fuel tank on the 2005 dodge magnum awd (5.7l), the vehicle began to stall at idle. Throttle had to be feathered at stop lights to prevent stall. After fuel level decreased to 7/8th of a tank, the stalling stopped and the car behaved normally. This problem repeated four more times in 2012, then began to happen at every full fuel fill up in 2013. Starting in 2014, careful metering of the fuel into the tank showed that if the total fuel level was kept below 145 pints, the stalling behavior would not happen.

Filed Feb 2, 2014 · Engine, Fuel system · 47,000 miles · KS

Just bought the car, filled up the fuel tank at gas station and went for a drive. At the first stop light I came to the car stalled while slowing down to stop coasted to a stop and restarted the engine after a few attempts, resumed driving and it was driving ok got onto the on-ramp to drive on the highway and it stalled again while merging into traffic same problem occurred several times until the fuel level went down after driving.