Road rules8 mins ago
Fuel In Your Tank
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Two questions :
Q1: How low do you let your tank get before re-fuelling - and how full do you fill it?
I get seriously twitchy when I'm at around 1/4 and will then brim the tank - it just seems the easiest way to do things. How about you?
Q2: I know several, otherwise entirely competent, women who would rather run out of fuel than actually fill the tank themselves . One was a a director of my local bit of the NHS & (at least twice) was late for meetings because (and I quote) "My useless effing husband didn't fill up the car, even though I kept telling him, & so I ran out of petrol on the motorway".
Is this a common phobia? If so what is it all about?
petrolhead dave xx
Q1: How low do you let your tank get before re-fuelling - and how full do you fill it?
I get seriously twitchy when I'm at around 1/4 and will then brim the tank - it just seems the easiest way to do things. How about you?
Q2: I know several, otherwise entirely competent, women who would rather run out of fuel than actually fill the tank themselves . One was a a director of my local bit of the NHS & (at least twice) was late for meetings because (and I quote) "My useless effing husband didn't fill up the car, even though I kept telling him, & so I ran out of petrol on the motorway".
Is this a common phobia? If so what is it all about?
petrolhead dave xx
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I do the same as you Dave. Once it gets down to 1/4 ours seems to empty very quickly, making me believe the gauge is over-reading at that level. My wife would fill the car if she had to and did in the days when she took herself to work but nowadays, being retired, we travel together for the most part and I tend to fill it.
When I started 'trade plating' (delivering vehicles around the country), I didn't initially have a fuel card, so I had to put fuel into vehicles at my own expense and then claim it back. As I'd been unemployed prior to that, I had barely enough money to buy food so (obviously) I wasn't going to put fuel into a vehicle's tank unless I really, really had to!
I soon learned that there was no problem driving a vehicle for at least 30 miles after the fuel gauge showed 'Empty' and the warning light had come on. Other drivers told me that they'd often got away with driving more than 50 miles with the warning light on.
Manufacturers know that their vehicles will be driven in, say, the highlands of Scotland (where it can be dozens of miles to the nearest filling station) or in far remoter areas, so they have to ensure that the fuel warning lights on their vehicles come on well before the tank is actually anywhere near to empty.
I soon learned that there was no problem driving a vehicle for at least 30 miles after the fuel gauge showed 'Empty' and the warning light had come on. Other drivers told me that they'd often got away with driving more than 50 miles with the warning light on.
Manufacturers know that their vehicles will be driven in, say, the highlands of Scotland (where it can be dozens of miles to the nearest filling station) or in far remoter areas, so they have to ensure that the fuel warning lights on their vehicles come on well before the tank is actually anywhere near to empty.
Evening, Dave.....never let it go down further than 1/4 full because, like Bhg's, it empties really quickly after that.....then I fill to the top.
I do my own oil, water and tyres and I can change a tyre if needed......but I think that's all now........once I would do minor things under the bonnet but I no longer recognise...under the bonnet...x
I do my own oil, water and tyres and I can change a tyre if needed......but I think that's all now........once I would do minor things under the bonnet but I no longer recognise...under the bonnet...x
