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Feb 26th, 2013, 22:41 | #1 |
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Fuel gauge
My V70 is annoying me with her fuel gauge. The rapid descent from full to empty is becoming rather expensive at the pump, even the wife is saying we need to change cars but I will NOT as I just adore the V70 it's mint, end of.
I'm getting around 450miles from a full tank combined motoring with a lot of idling (waiting around). When it get to around a third of a tank it becomes rather erratic going up and down more than a whores draws, is this normal. When the fuel light illuminates the miles till empty soon diminishes to nothing and I think is very inaccurate. Anyone else have this issue? I'm wanting to conduct an experiment but need some help. I want to run my car from the moment the fuel light comes on till its empty to see how much extra mileage I can get or not, just to factor out excessive fuel sender movement with the display being digital and get a true drain value of the tank. What do you think.? |
Feb 28th, 2013, 21:55 | #2 |
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450 is pretty bad. I'm always over 500, and often around 600...
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Feb 28th, 2013, 22:33 | #3 |
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Mine was reading 60 mile range so i took it easy and managed to keep it too 50 mile range over a 30 mile journey to the petrol station, weird thing is i could only get 51 litres of fuel in the car when i'm sure the tank holds alot more?? Computer then gave me a 840mile range!
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