Gas question

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Originally Posted by flagmunkey

i drove for about 25 miles before with a blinking bar. filled up 10.5 gallons then. the way i look at it is that each bar is about 1.15 gallons (11.5 gallon tank /10 bars). and you should get at least 34mpg. so you could easily get 40 miles* after the bar starts blinking.

Our tank is 11.1 gallons rather than 11.5, and we have 8 pips on the fuel gauge rather than 10.

11.1 / 8 = 1.3875 gallons per pip

However, our gas gauge is not truly linear so for safety's sake let's say that the last pip represents just 1 gallon. Again for safety's sake let's say you average only 30 MPG.

This means you should count on no more than 30 miles remaining on the last pip.