I ran out of fuel on the way home from a short blat this evening. I live on the top of a hill with a fairly steep road leading up it. As I got to the crossroads and dipped the clutch as I stopped, the engine idled strangely and stopped. Fortuneatly at the top of the hill about 200m from home. Nice that you get a bit of notice then. So now I know. 190 miles on a full tank.

fuel light not working then

I have a fuel gauge but it doesn't have a light. It was reading zero when I looked.

I also use one of the trip meters to measure "miles this tankful". I've always worked on 180 miles per tank. If I'd looked before I went out I'd have known to fill up.

I'm just glad I wasn't at the bottom of the hill.

Same happened to me - no warning just stopped. This confirmed that when gauge reads zero i dont have too many miles left! I then realised that these cars dont coast along too well seeing as they are so light?

any advances on 190 from a BEC?

You could adjust your sender so that when the guage reads empty you still have enough to get you to a petrol station.

My sender's a bit like that - when the gauge shows zero I have much less than 1 gallon in the tank... and I can't adjust my sender, unless I make a fixture to raise it a cm or two (it's a dip-tube).

I don't let it worry me - I just refill when the needle is approaching zero.

DJ