Fuel Gauge

[Harper]

Hello All-

I was just wondering....when you look at the fuel gauge on the dashboard, approximately how many miles does each of those "dashes" represent in miles, based on a 46 mpg average. Just curious as to know about how many miles I have left if the "add fuel" warning comes on. Also, at what point do most of you add fuel. Do you go as low as to let the "add fuel" warning come on? Do you do it earlier? Also, if I wait until the add fuel prompt comes on, need I worry about fuel tank deposits getting into the engine? Thanks in advance......

[Maytrix]

I don't think there's any real scientific answer here - It varies with everyone.

What I can tell you.. are you listening??

FILL THE $%$# CAR WHEN YOU GO FROM 2 TO 1 BARS OR SOONER!!



I mean... come on. You joined in March. There's been a zillion posts about fuel, the guess gauge and various people running out of gas.

Why oh why anyone feels the need to let their gauge get that low is beyond me. I usually fill up with 2-3 bars, sometimes more. Hell, I've filled up with 6 bars.

[keeponrunning]

Originally posted by Maytrix@Nov 9 2005, 04:59 PM

FILL THE $%$# CAR WHEN YOU GO FROM 2 TO 1 BARS OR SOONER!!
I mean... come on.  You joined in March.  There's been a zillion posts about fuel, the guess gauge and various people running out of gas.

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110% agree. Although I DO wait until it clicks from 2 to 1 bar. At that point I start looking for a place to fill-up. Since I go the same route everyday I know the best (read cheapest) places to stop and at the 1 bar point I have a long way to go.

My first bar lasts 110 miles or so, the rest can be between 20-50 depending on the alignment of the moon and the price of tea in China (it's about that scientific).

Andrew

[ScottY]

Originally posted by Maytrix@Nov 9 2005, 05:59 PM
I don't think there's any real scientific answer here - It varies with everyone.

What I can tell you.. are you listening??

FILL THE $%$# CAR WHEN YOU GO FROM 2 TO 1 BARS OR SOONER!!
I mean... come on.  You joined in March.  There's been a zillion posts about fuel, the guess gauge and various people running out of gas.

Why oh why anyone feels the need to let their gauge get that low is beyond me.  I usually fill up with 2-3 bars, sometimes more.  Hell, I've filled up with 6 bars.

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Can't agree more.

[Wayne]

Yea, you get to drive forever as it is, no sense in pushing it to the limit.

In answer to your question, although I don't have the numbers handy, the 1st pip to pop can last as long as 200 miles, with the other pips being 30-50 miles a pip (if my memory serves).

[tumbleweed]

It's a reasonable question but as Maytrix said it has been addressed quite a few times and if you do a search I think you can find some of those old posts with good information in them. I think the amount of gas per bar can't be computed accurately because it will vary with temprature and with which bar you are looking at. My car runs a lot longer on the first bar than some of the others.

I really don't like to run out of gas so I usually start looking for a gas station when it gets down to 2 bars or before. I have never seen my low fuel warning come on. I decided to check it out one time and after I had run for 20 miles or so on the last bar I chickened out and filled the tank, it took 11.7 gal but that was in warm weather.

[Charles Suitt]

<_< There's NO WAY to assign "miles" to GUESS GAUGE pips. I usually fill at the last "non blinking" pip without regard to the miles traveled. I do, however, keep an Excel spreadsheet tracking my MPGs and ¢/mile (currently 5.1¢/mile over the last 14 months) derived from odometer reading and gallons purchased.

[aaf709]

Originally posted by keeponrunning@Nov 9 2005, 02:07 PM
My first bar lasts 110 miles or so, the rest can be between 20-50 depending on the alignment of the moon and the price of tea in China (it's about that scientific).

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Same here. I mainly fill up at 2 bars. Once I filled at one bar and once (2nd or 3rd fill up) I waited until the Add Fuel warning came on. Of course I was across the street from the gas station at the time. Some have gone a lot of miles after that, but I wouldn't rely on that.

They don't call it a "Guess" gauge for nothing.

[Liam]

I have gone from three bars to one flashing bar in a little as 10 miles. The last bar on my car will start flashing between 315 and 370 miles. I don't use the gas gauge, I refuel based on the MPG and miles I have driven.

[Harper]

Originally posted by Maytrix@Nov 9 2005, 04:59 PM
I don't think there's any real scientific answer here - It varies with everyone.

What I can tell you.. are you listening??

FILL THE $%$# CAR WHEN YOU GO FROM 2 TO 1 BARS OR SOONER!!
I mean... come on.  You joined in March.  There's been a zillion posts about fuel, the guess gauge and various people running out of gas.

Why oh why anyone feels the need to let their gauge get that low is beyond me.  I usually fill up with 2-3 bars, sometimes more.  Hell, I've filled up with 6 bars.

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To respond to someones post like you and some of the others above is rude and disrespectful. This is a friendly website designed to help people get questions answered without feeling attacked. Sometimes a search doesn't get the exact question asked answered, and, sometimes it does. Also, so what if it HAS been asked before. Sometimes it's good to bring an old, often asked, but long forgotten question, out from the cellar as to help some of the newbies in here. If any of you guys talked to someone, definitely me, on the street like that, you'd probably have have a "dot" on your "I". You should be embarrased to write like this on this website. We are all friends here. I DID notice that some of you who wrote in here have only been members for a short while. THAT probably explains some of your assanine response(s). I feel like I'm in a chatroom full of infantile teenagers. Lighten up. What effort did it take to answer the post? More than if you would've just ignored the post and moved onto the next one I bet.....