Fuel Light - what's the range?
#1
Fuel Light - what's the range?
I am always anal about making sure I have plenty of fuel as my fuel gague does nothing and then seems to drop off a cliff?
For whatever reason I had been meaning to fill her up for few days but kept on putting it off when the fuel warning light comes on with one blob on the gague - oh $hit!
I alway try to use VPlus and know most of the Shell stations in and around Bristol and was making a b line to the nearest one when the single blob disappeared - panic stations! Anyway not wishing to get stranded and more importantly get crap in the fuel filter I drove into the first petrol station I saw (Texaco as it happens) and put a £5 worth in to get me out of trouble.
What are other people's experiences - how long do you have when the gague goes blank?
For whatever reason I had been meaning to fill her up for few days but kept on putting it off when the fuel warning light comes on with one blob on the gague - oh $hit!
I alway try to use VPlus and know most of the Shell stations in and around Bristol and was making a b line to the nearest one when the single blob disappeared - panic stations! Anyway not wishing to get stranded and more importantly get crap in the fuel filter I drove into the first petrol station I saw (Texaco as it happens) and put a £5 worth in to get me out of trouble.
What are other people's experiences - how long do you have when the gague goes blank?
#5
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If anyone can shed some light here, what "crap" actually gets in the fuel filter.
I have changed loads of fuel filters on previous cars / friends and family cars and never have I actually seen one which is "dirty / blocked".
I have changed loads of fuel filters on previous cars / friends and family cars and never have I actually seen one which is "dirty / blocked".
#7
agreed, never noticed this either ??? i think youre more likely to get water vapour in the fuel filter, they moan about that with derv cars...
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#8
Happened to me this weekend, zero bars and 10 miles to nearest petrol station! Drove with trepidation and slowly. Filled up with V Power, just squeezed in 43.5 litres, so well over a gallon left. Panic over.
#9
#10
A stated inside the filler flap, 95 to 98 RON the engine management will easily retard/advance the ignition accordingly, you get the full 'beans' obviously running on V-power or Tesco's Momentum99 the RAC review covers this....
http://www.rac.co.uk/buying-a-car/ca...a/s2000/207474
http://www.rac.co.uk/buying-a-car/ca...a/s2000/207474