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hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« on: 15 January 2007, 09:27:38 »
decided to run the car from full tank to fuel warning light. i ended up with a total of 426 miles from a combination of town/long trips (but no motorways- i live in norfolk !!)
what do you out there get at the same stage????
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #1 on: 15 January 2007, 09:51:44 »
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decided to run the car from full tank to fuel warning light. i ended up with a total of 426 miles from a combination of town/long trips (but no motorways- i live in norfolk !!)
what do you out there get at the same stage????
Did it last week, 420 out of MV6. Did include Motorway trip back from Derby though....
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #2 on: 15 January 2007, 12:47:38 »
I've never actually run my tank so low that the fuel light comes on, but I would say I get about 400 miles on a run and probably a couple of gallons of fuel left in tank.
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #3 on: 15 January 2007, 16:01:59 »
440, brimed tank to petrol light and praying that i can find a petrol station before too long...

half motorway the rest was the a14 / a11  >:(.... Bloody norfolk!!! BUILD SOME MOTORWAYS!!!!!!!!

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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #4 on: 15 January 2007, 17:21:55 »
There's a gallon or so left when the low fuel has started to flash & the computer says there's only 4 miles to go.  ;)
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #5 on: 15 January 2007, 17:33:01 »
when i went to fill up after about 10minutes seeing the warning light i could only put 64 litres in so i presume from the warning light i still had about 8 litres left?
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #6 on: 15 January 2007, 17:36:00 »
when i picked my MV6 up from its second dice with the bodyshop  the light was on permanent and the miles to go was flashing at 0 miles....

and the meega stil madee it 5 miles to the petrol station!!
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #7 on: 15 January 2007, 17:37:55 »
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when i went to fill up after about 10minutes seeing the warning light i could only put 64 litres in so i presume from the warning light i still had about 8 litres left?
It's a 75 litre tank so you had another 11 litres left.
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #8 on: 15 January 2007, 17:44:13 »
Shortly afer I got mine, I got on M40 then noticed I had 3 miles on the display. Next services was 19 miles....  ...still only got 72l in...
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #9 on: 15 January 2007, 17:49:52 »
350 miles is what i get  :-[ did u guys see the Audi A8 on a top gear a few years ago now that had 0 miles on the computer and he made it another 26 miles  :-[he went from London to Edinburgh and back again in a
4.0V8 TDI  audi a8 :o with 1 tank of fuel
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #10 on: 15 January 2007, 17:57:28 »
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Bloody norfolk!!! BUILD SOME MOTORWAYS!!!!!!!!

You don't know how bloody lucky you are  :o at least Norfolk is all flat - all you have to worry about is a few turkeys running around   ::)

Down 'ere we've got hills  ;) & still no bloody motorway - not even a sniff of one  :-?

The lowest I've ever dared to take mine was reading 7 miles to go, yellow light flashing, & I knew the petrol station was 7.5 miles away - we made it  :y
I reckon they err on the safety side  ;)
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #11 on: 15 January 2007, 20:44:30 »
You're all amateurs..

I got 601 miles out of a tank my 2.5 CDX auto!!

That was from full, down to the engine chugging and running out of fuel :)

Atmittedly, it was all 50 mph on the motoway!

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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #12 on: 15 January 2007, 21:01:06 »
Thats going to be hard to beat. I've had 500 out of MV6, but that was at constant 80mph...
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #13 on: 15 January 2007, 21:06:17 »
It literally was driving with a feather foot, no unnecessary throttle at all, no overtaking.... real grandad driving at 55mph constantly... returned about 40mpg, as honest as I'm typing this...
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Re: hit the fuel light barrier with.........
« Reply #14 on: 15 January 2007, 21:13:09 »
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It literally was driving with a feather foot, no unnecessary throttle at all, no overtaking.... real grandad driving at 55mph constantly... returned about 40mpg, as honest as I'm typing this...
Tunnie would cream his jeans - he can't get that from his 2.2  ;D
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