Fill up frequency question
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Yep I fill up 2-3 times a week but I have gotten down to 'Range left ---' because I have OCD and only use Chevron 91. Thats 120~180 bux a week, I'm probably going to be selling my G soon and getting a motorcycle and a Titan. G is not meant to be a commuter, my front end looks like crap
Good thing I love driving.
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I ran my Sentra dry twice. Once I coasted down the hill and right into the only gas station for miles. At 2:30am, I figured I'd just used up a year's worth of luck on that. Another time, I was on a local highway here in Atlanta, and called the DOT. They have these HERO (Highway Emergency Response Operators) trucks that patrol and help change flats, push stalls and accidents out of traffic, and even drop a couple gallons into the gas tanks of brain-dead folks like myself that day. It helps with traffic and general safety. On two other occasions, I was very low and parked facing uphill. Car wouldn't start til I coasted backwards to turn the car level. Still had at least a gallon in both those cases, so got to a station without issue. Never caused a problem.
That said, I have a Scangauge II, and now that it's dialed in, I use it to keep myself honest. I've pushed it too far once and ran out within .1 gallons of when it said my 20 gallon tank was completely dry. Put in just shy of 20 gallons after I made the short walk to the gas station. The gas light comes on with right about 4.5 gallons left in the tank. I will often drive another entire round-trip commute of ~35 miles before I fill-up. If I see a good price on gas, I fill up when the light's on unless I'm late. 50 miles after the light comes on, or if there's less than 1.5 gallons left, I start looking for the best priced BP station. (I get 5% back on BP gas, so that's 20 cents off at $4/gal, more than makes up for any small price difference between competing stations). When you can see space between the needle on the gauge and the thick line at the Empty end of the gauge, you've got 2 gallons or less in the tank. A sustained uphill stretch could stall you out, so that's when you should be nervous.
+1 on the idea of not going below 1/2 tank in the winter. I try to beat this into the head of my g/f and my sister, even though I'm not smart enough to take my own advice
That said, I have a Scangauge II, and now that it's dialed in, I use it to keep myself honest. I've pushed it too far once and ran out within .1 gallons of when it said my 20 gallon tank was completely dry. Put in just shy of 20 gallons after I made the short walk to the gas station. The gas light comes on with right about 4.5 gallons left in the tank. I will often drive another entire round-trip commute of ~35 miles before I fill-up. If I see a good price on gas, I fill up when the light's on unless I'm late. 50 miles after the light comes on, or if there's less than 1.5 gallons left, I start looking for the best priced BP station. (I get 5% back on BP gas, so that's 20 cents off at $4/gal, more than makes up for any small price difference between competing stations). When you can see space between the needle on the gauge and the thick line at the Empty end of the gauge, you've got 2 gallons or less in the tank. A sustained uphill stretch could stall you out, so that's when you should be nervous.
+1 on the idea of not going below 1/2 tank in the winter. I try to beat this into the head of my g/f and my sister, even though I'm not smart enough to take my own advice
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Agreed. I did run my Civic Hybrid dry once, hit almost 900 miles on the tank too. The bad part was I also ran my hybrid battery and regular battery flat too. So after I filled up, I needed a jump. I made it within 30 feet of the gas station driveway, in a rainstorm. I laughed.
Last edited by ineedone; 08-30-2011 at 12:29 PM.
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