smart51
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| posted on 30/3/06 at 09:44 PM |
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I ran out of fuel
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.
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OX
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| posted on 30/3/06 at 09:45 PM |
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fuel light not working then
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smart51
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| posted on 30/3/06 at 09:56 PM |
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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.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 31/3/06 at 11:05 AM |
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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?
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Hellfire
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| posted on 31/3/06 at 02:56 PM |
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any advances on 190 from a BEC?
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greggors84
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| posted on 31/3/06 at 03:32 PM |
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You could adjust your sender so that when the guage reads empty you still have enough to get you to a petrol station.
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 31/3/06 at 03:40 PM |
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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
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