Considering there are plenty of petrol stations either side of the Forth Road Bridge (I assume you mean the Forth Road Bridge, unless you ran out with a train you were driving), its rather embarassing to run out in that particular location.

 

Yes embarrassing. Though this was years ago, there were none on the motorway on the North side- I was trying to make the Shell garage on the South side but didn't. There may be more dotted around there now

I just cant imagine how you can hate filling up so much, that you leave it literally until the last milli second. Despite the fact you probably passed a garage 10 miles before.

 

But hey, each to their own.

Living in Ireland we now have fabulous motorways connecting most places(as of approx 5 years ago); but they haven't been so quick to adopt the Service Station idea.

 

Think I'm right in saying there are precisely 3 such stations in the whole country - yes I said 3. I suspect this is contravening EU regs - don't they state you should build one every 30-40 miles or so?

 

So in my defence this doesn't exactly encourage you to refuel regularly, especially when it may involve a diversion of many miles to get some "motion lotion"

I suspect this is contravening EU regs - don't they state you should build one every 30-40 miles or so?

 

I really don't think there are EU regulations on the distance between service stations.  It might be the only thing that they don't regulate on, and if someone wants to prove me wrong then fair enough...

 

When they started building motorways in England, the idea was to have service stations every 10-20 miles.  The longest gap between services was from Michaelwood to Strensham on the M5 (about 45 miles, I think) - this has now been filled by new services at Gloucester, about half-way between the two.

Just remember that while the tank is below 15 litres (I think), the DPF (diesel) will not regenerate, so constantly running on low could knacker the DPF and Skoda will not cover it under warranty. I was told this by a dealer a while back.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/290164-dpf-and-fuel-level/

Edited 6 July, 201411 yr by Leonblue

I doubt you'll have a problem if you brim the tank and drive it until it's low and so on. If you constantly put a fivers worth of fuel to get from A - B however that is a different matter.

Edited 6 July, 201411 yr by Leonblue

Even here in the Highlands there is not really an excuse for running out of fuel. The fuel may be quite expensive but there's no shortage of fuel stations.

JungleJames, on 02 Jul 2014 - 19:58, said:

Last time i took mine down to zero (its well known that you can), I could only fill up with 43 litres.

So you have at least another gallon not being read by the trip computer

 

I've never been able to get more than 42 litres in when filling up from what the computer tells me is "empty".

 

Aren't the diesel fuel tanks supposed to be 51 litres capacity?

I've never been able to get more than 42 litres in when filling up from what the computer tells me is "empty".

 

Aren't the diesel fuel tanks supposed to be 51 litres capacity?

 

All FWD O3's are 50 litres, 4x4s are 55litres.

Just remember that while the tank is below 15 litres (I think), the DPF (diesel) will not regenerate, so constantly running on low could knacker the DPF and Skoda will not cover it under warranty. I was told this by a dealer a while back.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/290164-dpf-and-fuel-level/

 

Yep, thats a myth. 15litres is almost 1/3 of the tank, being only to be able to use just over 30 litres of fuel would leave you with a silly short range.

Yep, thats a myth. 15litres is almost 1/3 of the tank, being only to be able to use just over 30 litres of fuel would leave you with a silly short range.

The point I was making is that the car should not be run near to empty most of the time. Presumably if the fuel light / warning is on then it will not allow the DPF to regenerate. So to run a car constantly low is not a good idea. I personally fill her to the top and then drive until the fuel warning comes on. The car therefore spends most of it's life with the fuel warning off. Also from what you guys are saying I would think that the warning light is coming on when the car has around 10 - 15 litres of fuel left (50 miles shown + the bit that's not registered), which could be why the guy said to keep it above that level.

I've never been able to get more than 42 litres in when filling up from what the computer tells me is "empty".

 

Aren't the diesel fuel tanks supposed to be 51 litres capacity?

Me to. Was surprised on my first fill from empty (what car said was empty) that the pump switched off at about 43L - Cheaper refill than I thought :-) 

And this all starts to add up now - The computer tells me I'm doing around 20/21 km/l .... so in a 50 Ltr tank that should be 1000KM - but the KM remaining reading, combined with the KM done since refuel never even adds up to 900km - usually comes to about 870-890KM

 

So the other 130km I'm missing is the reserve which is not calculated by the computer. I reckon I could go for over 100km after reaching "0" - I also reckon I'll let someone else test it :-)

Me to. Was surprised on my first fill from empty (what car said was empty) that the pump switched off at about 43L - Cheaper refill than I thought :-) 

And this all starts to add up now - The computer tells me I'm doing around 20/21 km/l .... so in a 50 Ltr tank that should be 1000KM - but the KM remaining reading, combined with the KM done since refuel never even adds up to 900km - usually comes to about 870-890KM

 

So the other 130km I'm missing is the reserve which is not calculated by the computer. I reckon I could go for over 100km after reaching "0" - I also reckon I'll let someone else test it :-)

I would also 'let someone else test it', as well as Skodas complete lack of empathy when the car breaks down. :-)

Unusual for me, but I had a very empty tank today.

The trip computer told me I had 5 miles left (and had been showing that for at least 2 miles) when I stopped at the pump.

I brimmed the tank, and it took 49.77 litres of V-Power Nitro at a cost of £70.62 .... I didn't think that was too bad for a nearly empty tank, and shows the computer (or mine at least) to be fairly accurate IMO.

 

Slightly O.T:  I don't know if it will make any odds, but as she has run on Tesco regular diesel for the first 1100 miles of her life, she deserved a treat :p

After this I will likely do at alternate top ups with branded regular, being a new car I don't think the cleaning agents in the v-power do much, but it can't hurt once in a while.

Left this to run for a bit, when my car reads 0 I need fuel big time, I have a 1ltr or less left.  The last two times I letting the mileage run down to 0 I have put 49ltrs and a bit of petrol in.

 

I have also noticed that this thread seems to be full of diesel engines and I think Skoda have designed the car to read 0 when there is about 15ltrs left in the tank to help protect the DPF.

Left this to run for a bit, when my car reads 0 I need fuel big time, I have a 1ltr or less left.  The last two times I letting the mileage run down to 0 I have put 49ltrs and a bit of petrol in.

 

I have also noticed that this thread seems to be full of diesel engines and I think Skoda have designed the car to read 0 when there is about 15ltrs left in the tank to help protect the DPF.

 

It's a good point, given diesels REALLY don't like being run dry they probably put a bigger safety margin than on a petrol where the worst is you have to turn it over for 10 seconds as it pumps the fuel through...

Left this to run for a bit, when my car reads 0 I need fuel big time, I have a 1ltr or less left.  The last two times I letting the mileage run down to 0 I have put 49ltrs and a bit of petrol in.

 

I have also noticed that this thread seems to be full of diesel engines and I think Skoda have designed the car to read 0 when there is about 15ltrs left in the tank to help protect the DPF.

 

 

It's a good point, given diesels REALLY don't like being run dry they probably put a bigger safety margin than on a petrol where the worst is you have to turn it over for 10 seconds as it pumps the fuel through...

 

It's bloody annoying though that on a modern car you have to guess how much fuel is in it....

Left this to run for a bit, when my car reads 0 I need fuel big time, I have a 1ltr or less left.  The last two times I letting the mileage run down to 0 I have put 49ltrs and a bit of petrol in.

 

I have also noticed that this thread seems to be full of diesel engines and I think Skoda have designed the car to read 0 when there is about 15ltrs left in the tank to help protect the DPF.

 

Mine is diesel ... and there was certainly not 15l left

Mr Grump, on 19 Jul 2014 - 11:25, said:

 

After this I will likely do at alternate top ups with branded regular, being a new car I don't think the cleaning agents in the v-power do much, but it can't hurt once in a while.

 

My last new car was a Ford Focus CC 2.0 tDi and I ran it from day 1 on Shell V-Power.

 

On the first MOT the tester (an old guy) said he'd been doing MOTs since the early 1990s and he'd never seen a diesel engine with such clean emissions.

 

So I guess V-Power does what it says on the tin.

 

But then again it's megabucks so it should do :think:

My last new car was a Ford Focus CC 2.0 tDi and I ran it from day 1 on Shell V-Power.

 

On the first MOT the tester (an old guy) said he'd been doing MOTs since the early 1990s and he'd never seen a diesel engine with such clean emissions.

 

So I guess V-Power does what it says on the tin.

 

But then again it's megabucks so it should do :think:

 

But would it still have passed the MOT ran on normal diesel?..... I'm 100% sure it would, making the extra cost of v-power a waste of money.

 

I've tried mine on v-power, made no difference what so ever.

Neily03, on 19 Jul 2014 - 16:09, said:

But would it still have passed the MOT ran on normal diesel?..... I'm 100% sure it would, making the extra cost of v-power a waste of money.

 

I've tried mine on v-power, made no difference what so ever.

 

I'm sure you're right

On the MkII it went to about 60 and still had plenty left

I've got a MkIII vRS on order, and I'd forgotten it has a slightly smaller tank than the MkII; I've run my MkII down to 30 miles left a few times and even 20 miles left once, and on those occasions I can usually squeeze 58 or 59 litres in if I brim it. Not bad for a 55 litre tank; hopefully Skoda will open a pub where I'll be able to buy pints of beer that magically actually contain 600mls rather than 568 :-)

It's bloody annoying though that on a modern car you have to guess how much fuel is in it....

 

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a small software bug/quirk with the "distance to empty" calculation.

When I compare the trip computer fuel economy between tanks & overall between the Columbus & Fuelly they are usually almost identical (perhaps 0.1 different in l/100km).

However, I have some fuel ups which have taken 43L and other which have taken almost 50L.

The only difference being the distance travelled between refilling (~700km vs ~850km).

 

Therefore, I would assume that the fuel consumption is quite accurate but the distance left to empty is less so.

Perhaps the distance left to empty calculation is not well adjusted to account for the additional hidden consumption during regeneration or something like that..

i.e. when a regen is required in the next xxx Kms the distance to empty is reduced by 75km or so to account for the additional fuel useage.