its seems to come on a little prematurely compared to my other cars..can u help me out? how long can i drive..(highway) once that light is beamin at me

 

If I recall you have about 40 miles left depending on your gas mileage. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I think about 2 gallons after the light comes on.

 

I was thinking about 50 but 40 is safe to figure,

 

LOL, 40-50! It's more like 25-30 at highway speeds.

 

Tank is 60 liters, light comes on at 50 liters so 10 left = 2.5 of your fine US gallons x your highway mileage......

S

 

My dad was a pilot and told me that you always have just enough fuel to get you to the scene of the crash. I'm sure that applies to cars somehow as well.

 

when the light comes on, my rule is max 30 miles. i prefer no more than 20.

 

From experience a week ago...I went about 27 miles from the time the light came on until I found a gas station (I reset one of the tripmeters when the light came on). When I filled up, the car took 13.9 gallons. So, with a capacity of 15.8 gallons, and averaging 20.3 for my trip...I COULD have driven about 65-66ish miles before being bone dry.

That was the first time I stretched to over 280 miles on a tank, all highway with cruise set at 85.

 

In my experience, if you cruise at 80 you should net 310-325 a tank. I have on more than one trip. I do generally stick to the 20-30 rule just to be safe.

 

this is dead on..

and i have run the tank dry twice to prove it..

beers

 

Did you make it to the scene of the crash?

 

i heard the car dies with a gallon left in the tank...?

 

It probably depends on which side of the saddle tank it's in...

 

nope.

i have put 16.1 gal in the tank..

beers

 

I pushed it just to around 55 miles on a road trip last year and the needle went much lower than I thought it would ever go (several ticks below the empty line) so Stealth's formula sounds rather accurate. BTW - if you ever drive through northern New Mexico in this car you better make damn sure you get gas when you can.

 

Swoope takes one for the team once again!

Our car has a low fuel light?! Strange, never seen it...

 

hahahaha

 

Believe it or not, there was a thread on this subject already... it mentions some facts which will tell you that you might have quite a bit less gas than you think... Search and thou shall find.

 

i id a seach on gas light and didnt see any threads that were specific to that sorry..but i only looked through a couple pages

 

I've done 40.

 

Yup. I did 15 miles on the freeway when my light poped up! I was like Oh NoZ!