hi when my fuel light comes on i fill it up but it will only take 40L to fill up do they have sender problems?? i think im right in saying it should take about 55L?

(oh its a vrs 2001)

hi when my fuel light comes on i fill it up but it will only take 40L to fill up do they have sender problems?? i think im right in saying it should take about 55L?

(oh its a vrs 2001)

I expect you have 15Lts in reserve otherwise you would run out

when the light comes on ........ carry a gallon in a can and see

how much further you can go before you run dry ......... then you

will have a good idea of how far you can travel when the light comes on

Your tank is nowhere near dry when the light comes on. In my TDI, I reckon I've got the best part of 100 miles to get to the next filling station. (Based on there being a couple of gallons left when the light comes on...)

I'd agree with Octy98. When the low fuel light comes on in mine, it's typically reporting about 130 miles range left, which is just under 3 gallons, and squares with the typical brim to brim (and usually on the same diesel pump) measured range.

My manual says orange fuel light = 50 miles.

Thats approximately a gallon.

When the fuel light comes on, computer reports maybe 130 miles or so range left, which squares with milage on pretty much all known trips, fuel required to first pump cutoff, and the fact that the guage on my car reads 1 notch "short" just after filling to that cutout. YMMV.

my fuel light comes on at about 1/8 of a tank left, so for me thats 7.8litres so about 1.7 gallons, so for my car(with me driving) thats about 34 miles

When the light comes on, I tend to fill up at the next opportunity, so that's about 10 miles away tops. Of course that's:-

a) With a diesel

As my last, with a sender that seems to read a gallon (or maybe as much as 2) low.

Make sure you vent the tank, using the nipple trick, when filling too

surely this is dangerous though? i don't think skoda spent a load of money on a vent tank if it wasn't needed?? what if you fill up on a cold day then the next day is unusually warm?? what happens to the expanded fuel? where does it go?

Make sure you vent the tank, using the nipple trick, when filling too

??

there is a seperate little tank that is meant for fuel to spill over into when it expands in heat. it has a vent at the filler neck that people press in so that they can fill the expansion tank as well as the normal tank so that they can spend more money in one go and leave filling up till 50 miles later. woo etc

Best thing to do is ignore the advice and fill up as normal

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Cheers guys; It wasn't that I thought that over-riding an expansion space was a good idea, just that I'd never heard of the trick!

I drive a derv and have never had any leakage.

As far as I was aware all you are doing is letting air out of the tank so that fuel can go into the fuel tank.

You can easily get 7 litres in there and even during the summer i didn't have any fuel leakage. (admitedly this was driving 2 miles after i filled up).

I don't do it all the time, but if fuel is v cheap at a station i will.

I don't know about petrol cars, but I don't think it's an issue on the derv car.

Especially when so many people in the US actually remove the vent.

Also how can the fuel expand into the thing when it's full of air. I say that because the air comes out under pressure if you press the nipple in on the derv.

EDIT: Should have also clarified my original post with "if you want to see how much you can get in the tank, then don't forget to...."