About a month into ownership, I drove it til I had 1 mile on DTE meter.
Needless to say, I was really really scared. I filled up and it only took
18 gallons. Those bastards with their safety factors.
-- Dave>From: "Frank Johnson" <frankwjohnson@hotmail.com> >Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net >To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net >Subject: DML: Low-gas light >Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:02:30 PST > >Ok, there was a little talk about this earlier and so i decided to look in >the manual to see what the real deal was. >Well, it says that the light will come on when there is 3 gallons or 11.1 >litres of fuel left. >Mine will come on when it hits the 1/8 tank line. So after reading that >part of the manual when i saw the light i drove another 15 minutes or so >city, and got her filled to the very peak. >Thing is, my gauge now read about 1/16 tank, and i put just over 66 litres >in. So there was still about 17 litres in there--about 4.6 gallons. >So maybe they just want to give the drivers a little extra warning? >But i like to drain my tank almost completely dry, then fill it up. Makes >me feel like i spend less money on gas that way as there are fewer trips to >the pumps. >That, and i go across the Ambassador bridge to gas up. :) > >Frank WJ >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >
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