^^^ almost snap! My mate (chrisw_vrs) runs down to 0 sometimes, and has gone a few miles at 0. Me copying got as far as 10 miles before running out, luckly, next to asda petrol station, with me dad and bro to push me lol. But one filled up, turned over a couple of times, started no problem!

I managed 30 miles below zero, but that was not a fun experience in any way!!!

^^^ almost snap! My mate (chrisw_vrs) runs down to 0 sometimes, and has gone a few miles at 0. Me copying got as far as 10 miles before running out, luckly, next to asda petrol station, with me dad and bro to push me lol. But one filled up, turned over a couple of times, started no problem!

Luckily for me mine i ran out just outside my mothers house! I was just doing a 3 point turn as the road she lives in is a cul de sac and part way through the turn i ran out! :( Thankfully just a 2 min walk to the Shell from there though. Car started no with no troubles so all is good

I'm not playing the fuel light lotto no more......

Lowest I have gone is 15miles left on the display, but now I fill when the light comes on

Self priming so just fill up and crank. You're unlucky, I can go 80 to 100 after the beep. BOL

To be fair.... i got the 'beep' with it was displaying 80 miles left, i normally fill up as soon as it gets to '40 miles left' - however, this time i had decided to play the lotto and see just how far i could strech it....... it had been displaying 40 miles left for a couple of days now, during which time i had done about 50 miles! with it still saying there was 40 left..... On the motor way on the way to my mothers, the trip comp even went back up to 45 miles left! 10 minutes later on arrival at her house i ran out!!

Admittedly, i didn't intend to run out, but i did want to see how long my trip comp would stay saying i had 40m left...... I won't be playing the game again

I thought all of this fuel lottery stuff was a bad idea. If you go much lower than 1/4 tank remaining, don't you risk dragging up sediment and other nasties from the bottom of the fuel tank?

Anyone remember the edition of top gear where he ran that audi from London to Edinburgh back to London again?

That was running on empty for ages.

I ran mine for about a mile after the 0miles came on.

I knew i could have gone more, but i was passing a petrol station.

I used to go down to 5 before getting fuel as a rule of thumb on my 1.4 petrol fabia. Never hit zero.. but never ran out either.

On my vRS, bottled out at 40 as the light came on at 70 and that threw me (being used to a bong at 50) It was the first full Tank Iv'e actually put in since buying... surley it should come on at 50 like the petrol ones? I can't see why it'd be different cuz 50miles is 50miles right?

hi i think the light comes on at a set volume of petrol/diesel left in the tank rather than 50 miles left.

at a guess 7 litres left.

cheers matt

hi i think the light comes on at a set volume of petrol/diesel left in the tank rather than 50 miles left.

at a guess 7 litres left.

cheers matt

I would agree with the above as when my light comes on the remaining range varies, I guess reflecting how the car has been driven since the display (2) was last reset. I reckon it might be @ 5 litres remaining as that would roughly tie in with when mine comes on and I also read somewhere on the site that the guages are calibrated with 5 litres of fuel in the tank?

It does calculate it. Volume for light on is fixed (as far as I can tell), but the miles left works on your consumption since starting the journey. You can see this if you check miles left after you've done,say, 2 miles and then after 10. Somehow you've done 10 miles and have more miles left than when you started.

That guage always amuses me - I always enjoy making it go up rather than letting it go down in courtesy cars (e.g. driving v gently). I think the closest I have come to running it down is only 30 miles though!

I'm pretty sure that range is calculated from average economy in the last 10 miles (ish?), not the average since starting the journey, nor the average economy stored in trip 2.

It's in the manual IIRC, but I'm too lazy to look it up just now.

I thought all of this fuel lottery stuff was a bad idea. If you go much lower than 1/4 tank remaining, don't you risk dragging up sediment and other nasties from the bottom of the fuel tank?

I would have thought the fuel filter would take out any mess in the fuel, don't know if there is a water trap on the engine somewhere.

I always thought that there was at least another gallon int he tank after zero, watching Clarkson last night with the Jag, he still had enough fuel for 150 miles ater the zero showed up......

I usually tend to wait till the light comes on and fill up as soon as I can, I have only pushed the car once to the garage with the light on on the way back from down south and the car was running low on fuel I would have guessed there would be about 10-15 miles left in the tank.

top gear last night showed, that after 0 miles on the trip in the tank there is enough for 100+ miles, that was on the jag, v6 twin turbo diesel,

I thought all of this fuel lottery stuff was a bad idea. If you go much lower than 1/4 tank remaining, don't you risk dragging up sediment and other nasties from the bottom of the fuel tank?

surely the fuel feed is from the bottom of the tank anyway, so what difference would it make? :confused: