Guess who's broken down!

[cwspellowe]

Lol, never trust the fuel gauge! Thats why I always brim mine then watch the miles as I know roughly how many miles I should get to the tank. Being anal about mpg has its usues lol.


Must admit though, thought I might have ended up the same as you this morning...





Was ok though, got to the petrol station in time lol.

Pfft, I ran the work Transit down to zero, still 5 miles from the nearest petrol station, and it went into some kind of weird limp mode with no power and a rhythmic cutting out every few seconds, almost like an intentional misfire.

Was fun, especially as I was already running late on jobs and couldnt be arsed stopping for fuel

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Very close! At least you have a warning light, I had no signs of it!

Then again, my lack of ability of noticing things staring me in the face is phenomenal...

Very true...it was flashing as well when the range got below 30 miles lol, you wouldn't have missed it!

Then again, range is crap on any car, it's never accurate. Filled up and turned out I had about 2 litres left in the tank - so it was surprisingly close actually.....especially considering how shit the mpg reader is on this car! Scanguage will probably be just as bad, mainly becuase it goes to '999.9' mpg when you coast in gear - which is rubbish because its actually 0 mpg. If you add in a few miles of 999.9mpg over a tankful it really throws the average out.

It's not zero mpg is it though? The engine's still running, and you're moving. Therefore there is a consumption of fuel per distance travelled. Fuelling isnt completely cut off or the engine would stop.