Well, I walked out without getting it fixed. I didn't like the guy's attitude at the shop. He said there is no fuse that controls the gas gauge, and that it'd be $82... An hour's labor, just to find out what the problem with it is. I walked out. I think it's worth $100 to fix it, but not $100 to diagnose it, and another $100 or more to fix it.
We're gonna take it to my dad's mechanic next time we switch trucks. Someone we can trust to not just name the biggest number they think the blond will pay.
My husband is a mechanic and I asked him about your gas gauge problem and he didn't think $82 was unreasonable to diagnose it. He said it could be a number of problems and it takes time to figure out what is wrong with it. Just my two cents.