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Fuel tank capacity is 68lts from fully drained.
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Pft first click when i do a full fill i go till i see the fuel at the top lip of the fuel cap thread hahaha
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silverGPX wrote:Pft first click when i do a full fill i go till i see the fuel at the top lip of the fuel cap thread hahaha
Got better things to do than sit at a pump and slowly get the fuel to flow to the very top.
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payaya wrote:
silverGPX wrote:Pft first click when i do a full fill i go till i see the fuel at the top lip of the fuel cap thread hahaha
Got better things to do than sit at a pump and slowly get the fuel to flow to the very top.
Chat up the servo attendant?
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silverGPX wrote:
payaya wrote:
silverGPX wrote:Pft first click when i do a full fill i go till i see the fuel at the top lip of the fuel cap thread hahaha
Got better things to do than sit at a pump and slowly get the fuel to flow to the very top.
Chat up the servo attendant?
At the pump?
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payaya wrote:
silverGPX wrote: Chat up the servo attendant?
At the pump?
Pump the servo attendant?
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Sorry bit slow. Its an Android app called fuel log....free too.
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PHIL069 wrote:
payaya wrote:
silverGPX wrote: Chat up the servo attendant?
At the pump?
Pump the servo attendant?
He is the servo attendant :lol:
LED ALL the things.
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my fuel meter must be reading wrong, i'm sitting on empty at the moment and have travelled about 510km, and when I fill up im only putting in 40-43L

does this mean i have another 200 or so KM of driving left on empty? :\
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Best way to test it is to get a fuel can fill it up and put it in your boot, then drive the car until the fuel light comes on. The fuel can is a safety for if the light is not working and you run out :lol: .
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That's what I'm doing atm :p
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aza013 wrote:Best way to test it is to get a fuel can fill it up and put it in your boot, then drive the car until the fuel light comes on. The fuel can is a safety for if the light is not working and you run out :lol: .
If your gauge is faulty then I highly doubt the warning light is accurate.
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Andym wrote:my fuel meter must be reading wrong, i'm sitting on empty at the moment and have travelled about 510km, and when I fill up im only putting in 40-43L

does this mean i have another 200 or so KM of driving left on empty? :\
Nah you got a smaller tank.
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payaya wrote:
Andym wrote:my fuel meter must be reading wrong, i'm sitting on empty at the moment and have travelled about 510km, and when I fill up im only putting in 40-43L

does this mean i have another 200 or so KM of driving left on empty? :\
Nah you got a smaller tank.
.....or your tank is half full of rocks :roll:
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Fuel light finally flashed on today, but back off, up to 780KM for this tank so far 8)
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Fuel lights a tricky one tech, it will go through two stages, flashing and solid. Yours is on flashing, generally when it comes on you can brake fairly hard and it will immediately go off. When you can no longer do that and its solid you really nwed to refuel, however I've done an extra 30 odd kms at that point and still haven't run out yet.
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Thanks for that taz, I thought it would be something like that :p
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It's coz the fuels splashing around in the tank and when you brake hard all it does is cover the sensor and the light goes off lol
I don't think it has stages as such
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Sahin wrote:It's coz the fuels splashing around in the tank and when you brake hard all it does is cover the sensor and the light goes off lol
I don't think it has stages as such
:lol: , yeh that's what I thought...
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