I recently (stupidly) ran the mileage down to zero on the digital gauge before I added diesel (I didn't think it would cause a huge issue as there's always some fuel in reserve, right?), added about 7 litres and the digital gauge remained at zero.

I didn't think too much of this as I presumed it was too small an amount to register on the float/sender. After about 3 miles the car started running jerkily as if there was a fuel line issue. I parked up and left it.

I've just added another 5 litres of diesel to make sure (so about 12 litres in total versus 3 miles of driving) and the fuel readout is still on zero and no fuel is getting through (engine eventually cut out after driving about 100 yards tonight.)

Any ideas? Have I plugged the fuel line with all the crap at the bottom of the tank? I appreciate the reader displays zero but the fact of the matter is there is at least 12 litres of diesel in the tank?

Can anyone help?

Many thanks,

James