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Old 10-19-2012, 06:58 PM
ElmoOxygen ElmoOxygen is offline
85 California 300SD
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Occidental, CA
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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
But, I never trust the gauge anymore. The tripmeter rules the day. I'll push the SD all the way out to about 560 miles...........not more.
That's also where I am now, watching the tripmeter. Ran out of fuel for the first time in many years a few nights ago, the fuel gauge was showing between 1/4 and R. However the low fuel light had been on a couple days, that seems to still work well.

I made it 552 miles on a tank in my SD. I drive short distances, stop and go, extremely hilly terrain... I'm thrilled to find out my new-to-me cheap used car is getting around 25MPG. If I wasn't so broke I would have found out exactly how much fuel the tank would have taken from empty (maybe some tank screen clogging going on?).

At least I bought a new autozone battery this month.
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