Range?

If I push it to the blinking fuel light I can get 500 miles as long as I'm over 50mpg. I pushed it for over 30miles past the blinking light and got a 534 mile tank. I was between 57mpg-55mpg. I can't remember exactly. People like Hill have gone 700 miles+ on a tank but that requires over 65mpg to accomplish.

I 've never put more than about 10.5 ga in the tank.

 

You have your thinking backwards. Yes it has a bladder. But there may not be a reserve. When you put in 8.5 gallons, you may only have a total of 8.5-9 gallons. It is not that the bladder only allows you to take out 8.5 gallons and there is 3.5 gallons left in there. It may only let you put in 8.5 gallons and the rest is folded over.

 

Good point!

 

I am so glad they eliminated that bladder! 500 miles is easy to hit, I usually hit 600, and have 3 tanks > 700 (all in a 2010 model). I enjoy staying away from the gas station for 2-3 weeks, and sometimes more.

 

T hat'sthe point. You don't always have 11.9 tank capacity.

 

Either. That's the point, you don't know.

 

In the heat of a summer afternoon, I can get over 11 gallons in on one Pip, I have twice in 3 years. In the 'cold' of a winter morning, I might only get 9 gallons on one Pip. Once that one Pip starts blinking, I have run out of gas in 7 miles, and not run out in 30.

These days I use these 'Guidelines'

With my mother in law in the car, get gas with 3 Pips
With my wife in the car, get gas with 2 Pips
Solo, I can run down to one Pip (but I would never start my 'commute' with two Pips, no cheap gas for 50 miles)
If it starts blinking, get gas NOW, no matter the cost

 

lol jim, i'm going to start using your guidelines. save myself a lot of grief!