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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: bigphil1 on 18 March 2008, 19:27:08
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Does anyone know how much fuel there is in the tank when the light comes on?
Phil
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In my 3.0 about 50, then at 30 miles Range the 30 on the MID starts flashing :y
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At the first sign of the "red" indicator it shows - 50 miles distance, however I have "never" in over 500,000 miles of driving a number of Omega's put more than 67 litres in the tank from empty, I once drove for over 40 miles with the "Range" flashing '00' miles and then only 66 litres filled the 75 litre tank. Very rare for anyone, unless a complete idiot to run out of fuel in an Omega.
regards
richard
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I disagree Richard...have run out of fuel before relying on the miles to go...still said I had 10 miles left...its a guide, not always accurate and if its out the wrong way then you can end up in trouble...
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I noticed that on the Opel scan software, there is a page to calibrate the range information.
I have not yet investigated it, anyone tried?
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In my 3.0 about 50, then at 30 miles Range the 30 on the MID starts flashing :y
That is pretty much what my 2.5v6 does, MID on at 50 then flashy dash bulb at 25-30.
Going by my MID's MPG numbers, ie. 24.9, then i have allways took it to mean 2 Gallons left, then 1Gallon when the dash goes epileptic :y
Having said that, it would surprise me if VX had not put a little slack into the tank.
Iain
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At the first sign of the "red" indicator it shows - 50 miles distance, however I have "never" in over 500,000 miles of driving a number of Omega's put more than 67 litres in the tank from empty, I once drove for over 40 miles with the "Range" flashing '00' miles and then only 66 litres filled the 75 litre tank. Very rare for anyone, unless a complete idiot to run out of fuel in an Omega.
regards
richard
It's official, I am an idiot :-[
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I went down to zero miles indicated and also only managed to squeeze 67 litres back in, so there was still 8 litres in the tank when showing empty. ;)
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Be warned, we parked a DTi up with around 7 miles indicated on the display, came back to it later that evening, would it start, would it hell!
......of course, we had parked it on a verge with a horizontal incline. doh! Bit of juice and we were in business again :-X
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dont think id ever take the chance of letting mine go into the red it cant im told do the fuel system any good so i keep mine at the quart tank mark all the time it makes common sence to many times iv seen bloke walking up a long long road with fuel can in hand hopin theres a garage at the end of it an i dont fancy pushin my 3ltr miggy i only use my range guide as that nothin more as i guess no two cars are the same guess this is no answer to your question phil but thats the way i see it
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.... so i keep mine at the quart tank mark all the time ....
I wish I could keep mine at a quarter tank all the time. Mine keeps going down though! ;) :y
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I don't think I'd ever take the chance of letting mine go into the red; it cant, I'm told, do the fuel system any good. So I keep mine at the quarter tank mark all the time. It makes common sense; too many times I've seen blokes walking up a long, long road with fuel can in hand hoping there's a garage at the end of it, and I don't fancy pushing my 3ltr miggy. I only use my range guide as that, nothing more, as I guess no two cars are the same. I guess this is no answer to your question Phil, but thats the way I see it
Blimey, you need to find the shift key and work on your punctuation a little; your post was quite hard work to read.
No offense meant at all, but it makes life very hard to decipher a splurge of lower case words and no punctuation. A shame really becasue what you have to say is valid and has value. It is just undermined.