ive always wanted to do some experiments in this area. carry a jerry can with some fuel and just drive on deserted roads to see what mileage i can get when my fuel light comes on (i dont have a digital indicator). how bad is it for the car to do something like that?I have never tried this and I never will because I know it is bad for the engine but I was just wondering. When the fuel computer shows "0 miles" left on Range. How far will the car actually take you?
Draining it completely can drag some of the settled sediment in the tank into the fuel lines and into the injectors. Never recommended to run a car empty in generalive always wanted to do some experiments in this area. carry a jerry can with some fuel and just drive on deserted roads to see what mileage i can get when my fuel light comes on (i dont have a digital indicator). how bad is it for the car to do something like that?
Yes, typically i get 284 before i get the low fuel warning. That week i had done lots of short journeys around Christmas so had the low fuel earlier.Did you fill up with Momentum 99? and 284 miles to a tank?
Why do you think it's bad for the engine? It runs out, you fill it - no problem.I have never tried this and I never will because I know it is bad for the engine but I was just wondering. When the fuel computer shows "0 miles" left on Range. How far will the car actually take you?
Why do you think it's bad for the engine? It runs out, you fill it - no problem.
Is that true though for modern cars? It might have been years ago for cars in the 50's and 60's. Surely the fuel filter will prevent any debris getting into the injectors and engine and I would of thought that the fuel pick up point would be at the bottom of the tank anyway so it's always drawing fuel from the bottom, happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.Cause driving with low fuel can damage the fuel pump. Debris and contaminants from the fuel that settle at the bottom of the tank will be sent through the fuel pump finding it way into the engine.
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Cause driving with low fuel can damage the fuel pump. Debris and contaminants from the fuel that settle at the bottom of the tank will be sent through the fuel pump finding it way into the engine.
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I never understand this logic.
Why are you going to get any more debis & sediment than through normal driving? The pickup is in the bottom of the tank and surely sediment will flow around more easily with more fluid? I know diesel fuel pumps are lubricated by the diesel fuel, but not petrol fuel pumps and doesn't the fuel filter stop contaminants getting to the engine?
Way back in the day the supply chain was not great and contaminants could make it through the system and to the tank, but there just isn't any evidence of low fuelled cars conking out all over the place and we have been widely using fuel injectors since the mid eighties.
In not trying to start an argument, I just don't see this in practice.