A few questions about my AU1 Fairmont

[Richo86]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if anybody knows how the fuel door sensor in an AU1 Fairmont works? I bought the car recently and on the instrument cluster, the little arrow pointing at the fuel door flashes regardless of whether it is open or closed.

Being a perfectionist, this really ****es me off!

There is a little black box with separate red and black wires running out of it screwed to the bottom of the inside rim of the fuel door cabin. I'm guessing this is responsible for the sensor signal. However, there is also a metal rectangular ring screwed to the fuel door itself that seems to fit about 1 or 2 cm above the black box when the fuel door is closed.

Is something missing that fits inside the rectangular ring that fits roughly over the black box?

On to my next question - I was checking out the fuse box and noticed that several of the fuses were of lower amperages to those displayed in the diagram in my owner's manual. Would this be because the total has to fall below a certain figure? My car is fitted with a non-factory LPG system and an alarm - could these fuses have been downgraded in order to compensate for the power used by the LPG system and alarm? All of the fuses appear to be originals.

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Also, one more question for the experts - my car is fitted with a non-factory LPG system and the auto transmission doesn't run all that well on gas. It makes a fairly long and loud whining sound when changing gears, and the revs will always go up to 3000 rpm before changing from first to second gear! Sometimes when idling, it will run very smoothly, but occasionally the car will shake pretty violently. Gear changes are jumpy, whether switching up or down in gears. But it runs beautifully on petrol...

I'm getting it tuned next week, but if someone is able to give me some advice on any of my questions then I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks a lot.