SYM VTS 200 Fuel Gauge Interpretation

A gauge is only as good as the person that's reading it, there are a lot of report that this gauge is unreliable. Frankly I never experience any problem. Maybe I am one of those lucky few.


Luck aside, let's me explain how the gauge is read, below is a gauge showing three bar in black. This bar represent quantity in the tank, however they does not necessarily mean that your fuel is at the top of that bar. Furthermore this reading also affected if you place the scooter on sidestand.

The above example means the fuel condition could be at the top of the third bar or it could also be at just about to deplete the third bar. Trip meter showing 212km, so its just about to turn clear. You see these gauge will show full bar at any segment as long as there is fuel above its threshold limits. So when you see the third bar is full, this does not mean it at the top, it can be anywhere in between.

The SYM VTS 200 fuel consumption is about 300 ~ 320 km average, however if you constantly do full throttle on two up the consumption can reduce by about 10 %. Above diagram illustrate the range each segment can go. With fuel full to the brim, the top three bar will be about 70km each and the bottom 2 are 50 km each.

The above figure represent in distance travelled, the third bar showing full but in actual fact it could be almost at the -210km mark.


So my advise on reading this gauge, if you are not sure how far you have left take the worst case scenario don't read the top most darken segment. In above example its safer to read it as only 100km to go, however unless you have just top up and very sure its actually full then you could reset the trip meter and use that as reference.


To prolong the life of the fuel sender unit, my advise is never pun the scooter on side stand for long period of time, its best to use the double stand especially during fuelling.