I was just wondering how accurate the miles to empty thing is on thes cars.

 

IMO very accurate. I have let mine get low on a few occasions. When I installed my cai and wanted ALL the old oct to run out before loading a higher oct tune. It got down to 1 mile to E when I was 200 ft from the gas station. I would not recommend letting yours get that low due to problems caused when officially running out of gas with FI. As mentioned I was basically in the same shopping center as the gas station when I hit 1 mile to E.

Another time was when I wanted to see how low it would get before turning red with the warning light. I don't feel its like the old days were you could run on e for like 20 minutes or 10 miles lol. When your down to 5 miles or so I would surely make BP a priority.

Let me add that how you drive when low will play a part as well. Stomping on it when 6 miles to go so you will get to that station quicker will not last nearly as long as a 40mph cruise to the same station. You already know that though.

 

I would say not accurate cause I have atleast another gallan in the car when it gets to enpty. I go by the gallons used quite often as that seems to be very accurate since I would assume that it can take this reading from the flow of the fuel pump. Could be wrong though.

 

Don't EVER let it get below 15 miles or so, cause the first (and ONLY) time I tested it out, as soon as it dipped below 10 miles the message center moved into WARP-DRIVE mode and the "miles remaining" melted away faster than snowballs in Hell.....!
I was sweating like a pig in Fear of running empty and being stranded on the side of the road in my 2 week-old car like a freakin' HOBO while long lines of old beat-up Ricers streamed by while laughing and pointing at me and yelling stuff like "Broke-*** LOSER!"
I JUST made it to the gas station with "2 miles" left (according to my message center- which probably meant about 50 YARDS at the rate it was falling!).

Never again.......!! [sm=signs006.gif]

 

I would say ever car is different but if you drive it till 10 miles left and then fill the take up and only put like 14.5-15.5 in, then you still have atleast half a gallon left. Remember the tank is 16 gallons so just observe how much you put in and what the reading was.

 

Accurate! No questions about it.

 

Ive posted these pics before, but it says it all pretty much.

Like flewbyu I was running all the 87 out, and was just going up and down the street near the gas station waiting for it to hit 0 miles to empty, pulled in, filled up to 16.2 gallons. Obviously some is in the filler tube.

 

I never let mine get lower than 1/2 tank... lol


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I don't either anymore- not after THAT experience...! LOL

 

On the way to the race track one time i was 0 miles till empty and i was sitting in traffic for another 3 miles that took me 20 min and i didnt run out of gas, but then as soon as i got in the gate i went and got me some race gas hahaha