How Far Have YOU Gone on "E"

[mryaris]

I was digging through some boxes (just moved to Dallas from Denver) and I found my Yaris paperwork from when I bought the car. Inside were all the little tags explaining how things work. One was the fuel gauge......it says when the slow flash starts on the last bar you have approx. 1.6 gallons of fuel left and when the flash gets faster you have 1.1 gallons left. So.....theoretically, if you are getting 40 MPG, you should be able to go 64 miles on that last bar before running completely out of gas.

I ususally go another 40 miles or so before I fill up......I know I have at least a gallon left when it blinks and I average around 40 MPG, so no woriies of running out of gas. YMMV though! ;)

I'll see about posting a picture of the tag later today.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by mryaris

it says when the slow flash starts on the last bar you have approx. 1.6 gallons of fuel left and when the flash gets faster you have 1.1 gallons left. So.....theoretically, if you are getting 40 MPG, you should be able to go 64 miles on that last bar before running completely out of gas.

^^^^^ This sounds exactly right.

I once ran out of gas in my Yaris while pulling into a station to get gas. I filled the tank, not to the absolute top of the neck, but to the point where I could see gas in the neck. That tank = 12.777 gallons. I (at some later date) read CTScott's thread re his having calculated that the maximum capacity of the tank is 12.8 gallons.....point in the neck I eyeball the gas to absolute top of neck = 23/1000th (0.023) of a gallon..very logical.

40 x 12.8 = 512 and 512 / 8 bars = 64...and a 64 miles per bar average has always (since that 'run out' pulling into the station long ago) been the 'rough mental note to myself' to 'check if I'm keeping pace with 40 mpg' as I eyeball each tank.

With my 'extreme fill' style, the first bar always lasts the longest, and this jives with another passage from CTScott that indicates the fuel gauge doesn't (for lack of a better way of putting it) register/account for amounts above 11.1 gallons, IIRC.