How long can you drive past "0 miles to Empty"

[Mindcrime]

Just wondering, if needed how many miles I could drive past the "0 miles Until Empty" appeared on my overhead display. I've probably had it about a mile or 2 past that without running out of gas. Anyone else have any experiences with this??

-MINDCRIME-

[outpost22]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Mindcrime:
Just wondering, if needed how many miles I could drive past the "0 miles Until Empty" appeared on my overhead display. I've probably had it about a mile or 2 past that without running out of gas. Anyone else have any experiences with this??


-MINDCRIME-<hr></blockquote>

I'm not brave enough to find out [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]
These things are too heavy to push [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[Van Daddy]

Keep in mind that MPG averages are “AVERAGES”! In my PSD, I could “always” go another 90 miles. Until the day when I was fully loaded and driving into a 80 MPH Wyoming headwind. Fortunately for me, I was able to get a ride the 35 miles to Cheyenne and back! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]

[Van Daddy]

Should have also said…legend has it that you have 5 gallons left at the “E” mark. You may even find this stated in your owners manual.

[Harald]

The answer depends on your "attitude". If I get home with a 1/4 tank of fuel and then back up my sloped driveway, I can count on seeing that warning when I start up the next morning. Usually by the time I get to work, the low fuel light finally goes off. Personally I don't like actually getting that low; it's that Boy Scout in me that always wants to "Be Prepared."

[dspires]

Until fuel starvation occurs.

[L Harp]

If you really want to find out, you could stick a can of gas in the back, and then keep driving. When you run out, you'll know the max you can go. You're still guessing about the minimum you can go as noted in the above posts.

Obviously you wouldn't want to try this in a diesel, but you should be OK running a gasser dry. Anyway, then you'd know.

[dan4x4]

I have found the answer to the million dollar question!

Last summer while trout fishing way out in the boonies in Colorado, I took the truck a little too far into the boonies. When we headed out I saw just how low we were on gas. That is a feeling I DO NOT want to experience again!

I drove exactly (I know how exactly because I was watching the gas gauge real closely! [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] )
69 miles on the odometer after the needle passed the bottom of the big E. We made it to town and the engine began sputtering at the nearest intersection to the gas station. As I held my breath we made it to the pump. I then used the baby-the-last-five-gallons-trick and topped off the tank with a total of 33.8 gallons.

I should have been watching the fuel gauge closer when we started on the trip but sometimes those Colorado mountains and the little trout fishies have a way of beckoning one farther into the great gas-stationless-unknown.

I will now always carry a spare 5 gallon can with me on those excursions.

There you go!

Dan

[JVencius]

Depending on the weather, you will be able to go approximately two miles less than the distance to the next gas station. If the weather is nice (the kind of weather where you might go for a walk anyway), the distance will be correspondingly shorter. If the weather is not so nice (kind of weather where you sit inside when you're off work, sip on an adult beverage(perhaps a COORS) and become one with the couch), the distance will be correspondingly longer. I have found this out through actual experimentation on an unreliable gas gauge. [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/smokin.gif[/img]

[outpost22]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mtflyfisher:
Depending on the weather, you will be able to go approximately two miles less than the distance to the next gas station. If the weather is nice (the kind of weather where you might go for a walk anyway), the distance will be correspondingly shorter. If the weather is not so nice (kind of weather where you sit inside when you're off work, sip on an adult beverage(perhaps a COORS) and become one with the couch), the distance will be correspondingly longer. I have found this out through actual experimentation on an unreliable gas gauge. [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/smokin.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>

I think "Murphy" had your gas gauge too [img]images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]

[robsd]

Is that Kramer? I remember seeing this on Seinfield.

[Mr. Superduty]

I ran out with 34 showing!