Furthest distance gone when range says 0 miles
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Also the HPFP doesn't like running without fuel (diesel lubricated) and is a very expensive repair when it fails !
I carry a 20 litre jerry can of spare fuel when going on a trip - filled up when fuel is discounted.
I get twitchy with 50 miles range showing ...
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Even a moped up rural hills as a 16 years old yooof , is a little taxing lol
Can push my van too , but only down hill or on the flat for a few yards .You can push a moped
Even a moped up rural hills as a 16 years old yooof , is a little taxing lol
It’s an entertaining question - I’m sure we’ve all crawled into a petrol station “on vapour” before.
I did read somewhere that it’s better to not let the T6 drop below a quarter tank to maintain the efficiency of the regens and DPF. (Equally, I could have imagined that!)
I did read somewhere that it’s better to not let the T6 drop below a quarter tank to maintain the efficiency of the regens and DPF. (Equally, I could have imagined that!)
but the range was clearly conservative!
Some of these gauges and fuel computers are a lottery.
I try and fill the van as soon as I can after the light comes on - on the range that can be anywhere from 35 to 75 miles left depending on how gently it's been driven. A couple of times I've either not got close to my preferred filling station, so I've done 5-10 miles on the range being 0.
I had a Ford Escort TD with a fuel gauge without a warning light. That ran out outside my front door one day and the vacuum caused bent some solenoid or other.
My Altea ran out once with 15 miles range and my Clio once ran out on the way to a fuel station showing 30 miles of range.
When I was trade plate driving, I was frequently driving cars with zero range on them as the auction sites would normally hoover all of the fuel out of them and put a gallon back in. Except sometimes when they didn't bother putting any back in...
The flip side to this is we are on tour and bought minimal diesel in France, just enough to get into Spain. We arrived in Pamplona and the needle was just outside the red on the gauge. The light hadn’t come on, and the MFD was saying 80miles range. I filled up and it took 77.5 litres, I have the 80litre tank. I’m assuming that there’s a fair margin of error in the stated volumes and ranges.
I did the same once when i was young and strupid..it was a pool van for a company i once worked for, the person who used it prior got it back to the yard almost empty and i discover this at 5am as I'm about to set off for a trip miles away where turning up late wasn't an option. Now the location of the yard was rural and local garages were not open at that time so, with little options I headed to the motorway junction and set off to the nearest services which were a couple of miles away. Initially went well, i was tailgating lorries and trying to use as little throttle as i could, however when we hit the mile marker for the services it started coughing and cut out soon after...i managed to roll it off in to the services and to the pump, so got away with it.
You would have assumed the person who left the van nearly empty would have got a bollocking, but given it was my immediate superior that didn't happen.
I picked up a Peugeot 107 from an auction in Saltash and had to drive it up to the Midlands - it had half a tank of fuel in it and somewhere south of Taunton, the fuel light came on. Easy - that should get to Taunton services. Except it didn't and I ran out of fuel on the motorway and had to walk down the embankment and into Wellington.
When I got back the Traffic Officer was waiting with the car and said that nobody can stop you walking off the motorway, but if you are going to do it try and use the orange phone first...
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