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07-19-2007, 04:02 PM | #1 |
TRIM HUNTER
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SO I RAN OUT OF GAS THE OTHER DAY
FIRST time too for me. i drove around for 2 1/2 days with the light blinking and ran out on the highway. good thing for me it was by my job and i was able to get someone with a gas can.....
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07-19-2007, 04:05 PM | #2 |
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Well it's good to know that I can go a few (or more) miles with that last little bar blinking before I run out. THANKS! hahahaha, sorry to hear that though. Good thing you were by your work.
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07-19-2007, 04:10 PM | #3 |
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When that last dash starts blinking I get nervous.
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07-19-2007, 04:24 PM | #4 |
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I don't trust that digital gas gauge.
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07-19-2007, 04:48 PM | #5 |
I have yet to get it to blink.. I go down to 2 bars and i fill up.. hey, how many miles before you ran out? how many miles do we get from that blinky thing before our yaris is dying of thirst?
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07-19-2007, 04:52 PM | #6 |
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Sorry to learn about that. Can you describe how did the car behave shortly before and just after it finished the last drop of gas? Did you have enough time to move to a safe spot and stop there to wait for help?
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07-19-2007, 06:52 PM | #7 |
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Yes, and is it easier to push a Yaris or just pick it up and carry it?
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07-19-2007, 07:46 PM | #8 |
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I have Master's in Electrical Engineering, by the way ;-) |
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07-19-2007, 08:51 PM | #10 |
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When you ran it dry you should have had it dragged to the nearest gas station to see how much fuel a Yaris can really swallow.
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07-19-2007, 10:25 PM | #11 |
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Mmmm...Mmmm...Mmmm..., Love them 7 Segment Decoder Chips. A little dip or maybe a nice melted 3 cheese blend. Even served with a Yo-Hoo and maybe a side of Slim-Jims. Now your talking!
Ok, now you college boys are talking some stuff. To me it sounds like chinese with a few letters missing. I never knew we had the blink blink "Bingo" fuel light till I witnessed it. I pulled right into the next station and filled 'er up. That will never happen again. Is the fuel pump mounted in the tank on the Yaris? I've always tried to keep atleast a 1/4+ tank in my truck to keep the pump cool. The gasoline does the cooling part. Carry on with your book learning talk and I'll sit back and try to learn something. Chuck
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07-19-2007, 11:07 PM | #12 |
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Digital television displays a picture, not numbers.
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07-20-2007, 12:57 AM | #13 |
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I have run out of gas 3 times now. The first time it happened as it should have...I had the single blinking bar....I got 59 miles before it croaked....it was 1 in the morning and I ran out literally under a mile to the gas station (no I was not dumb and engineered this...I missed the last gas station on the freeway by 2 minutes after closing and they didn't have card readers on the pumps). The car coasted a few hundred feet easy and that was going up a slight incline. I had been going 75mph when it died. The second time it happened my gauge read at 3 bars. I was stumped and very pissed off. I called the local dealership (120 mile round trip) and they didn't believe me. They said to bring it in, but since I didn't purchase there they would not give me a loaner and wanted my car for 2 days so I couldn't swing it. The third time happened about 3 weeks after the second and the gauge had just rolled down to 2 bars. I was like WTF is this shit??? Anyway, I got it in to the dealer and they said that they reset my systems and it has been about three months with no incident. I have taken it down to blinking a couple times since without issue.
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07-20-2007, 10:12 AM | #14 |
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I hate LCD guages like this. My motorcycles use the same things, they just bug me. I'd rather have a needle style gauge. If I put gas in mine shortly after it starts blinking it usually takes about 9.5-10 gallons to fill it up. I've waited many of times for the fast blinking to start, which is usually around 10-10.5 to fill up.
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The analog reading is digitized into 8 bars. BTW - I don't much care for the gauge either.
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07-20-2007, 03:46 PM | #16 |
wacky broadway nightmare
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OMG, me too! Especially when I am driving my favorite writer around the metroplex.
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07-20-2007, 05:21 PM | #17 |
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its funny cause i was about 2 miles from the rest stop where i was headed to get gas(cheaper gas in jersey) and wifey says to me the light was blinking. i laughed and said maybe i should turn off the a/c cause its been blinking for 2 days now. as soon as i turned off the a/c the car started bogging down when i tried to accelerate and i got a little scared cause im doing 75 in the fast lane on a major highway and all the car wants to do is COAST over to the shoulder....... and for the post about refueling i put 11.3 gallons in after getting help from my boys....
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07-29-2007, 06:19 AM | #18 |
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when my last bar starts blinking, I have about 6 litres left, which is ~1.5 gallons which with my average milage of 39mpg that should theoretically give me another 50 miles - 100km. But, I dunno. I don't want to risk it. I always just fill up the same day or next day that the bar starts blinking :)
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