as i came home yesterday the last gas bar went out.. how many gallons of gas left in the tank and how many miles can she go??

 

i believe the reserve tank lets you travel about 20 miles more.

 

I dont think anyone can give you an exact estimate...Unless they took extream measures (Drain gas tank)...but I would say 15-20 miles...I have driven mine about that much and never ran out of gas...This is when it stops going from 1 bar to 0 and stay's on 0...Dont take my word for it though I dont want to be responsible for you being stranded

~Cody~

 

With 0 bars in... My car has about 2 gallons give or take. This means 35-40 miles... At least for me

 

I get about the same results.

 

35-40 miles will be pushing it.

I DID run out of gas in my S2K once... (as I was rolling into the station) and I certainly did not go 35-40 miles on no bars.

Maybe 35-40 miles from when the LIGHT turned on! (2 bars)

EDIT> Lemme get this straight... Your gas light comes on at 2 bars. You let it go down to 1 bar... then no bars. THEN, you still try to drive the car any kind of distance? Why?

 

OK well... lets put it this way... the tank is 13 galons? With NO bar, I have 10.5 gallons left which leaves 2.5 gallons in the tank. You do the math

 

OK, just because you can only put 10.5 gallons in at 0 bars does NOT mean you have 2.5 ACCESSIBLE gallons left in the tank (13.2 US gal according to my owners manual) Hopefully the suction tube is NOT at the absolutely lowest point in the tank, I have never seen one there. I think you have 1-1.5 USABLE gallons left when the last bar goes out. (Anybody who has removed the tank to install a fuel cell would know) You can go ahead and try to drive 62.5 miles at Zero bars with the alleged 2.5 Gallons remaining. .. let me know how that works out for you...
Just put gas in when the low fuel warning lights up, or preferably before. BTW, have you tried changing the FUEL FILTER enough reason to never get close to empty for me...
But what do I know, i'm just some guy on the internet.

 

It would be a pretty inefficient design to make a gas tank that had 10% that was completely unusable.

 

Most of the impurities settle on the bottom of the tank. It's very much by design that most tanks won't drain every last drop. Figure out what the volume of the bottom of the tank covered by perhaps 1 inch of gas would be... that's my guess for unusable fuel.