How close have you been to running out of gas?

I was on vacation this week towing our 23' trailer with a 2007EB 4.6L. I had just under half a tank left and it was only 60km to the next town. Well towing at 8.5mpg quickly moved that fuel gauge! The gauge was on E and I was watching the driving computer in the dash telling me the distance to empty. 10 miles (Okay, should be close), 5 miles (hmm, where is that station?), 3 miles (how am I going to explain this to the wife?), we crest a hill and there is the station!! As I am slowing to make the turn the computer switches to 0 miles left. I make it the pumps and start pumping.

The manual states the capacity is 85.2 Liters. I pumped in 83.9 Liters!!! I must have been seconds away from stalling. After that I filled up at 1/2 tank on the guage for the rest of the trip!

 

[BrianDye]

My moms 08 escape has that computer too, were about 5 miles from the closest gas station, and her thing said 3.4 miles or something around 3, drove the 3 miles, til it said 0 and still drove the other 2 or so miles with it saying 0.


When I had my taurus, I used to take a fuse out, to stop the odometer, so my gramma didnt know I was driving so much, the same fuse did the speedometer too. I had done something, and acc. blew a fuse, which I thought was the one for the odometer, so no biggie, with like 1/2 tank left, and just let the fuse go til I had time to run to AutoZone, which was like 3 days later, one night at like 2am I went out for a late night trip to mcdonalds for a burger, and the engine started sputtering, and when id hit the throttle, it would die out, then come back, and then it stalled, i steered it into this gas station just rolling, lucky me they were closed, 2am, no one to really ask for a ride, I couldnt let my mom know, I wasnt sposed to be out lol.

So I didnt know it was out of gas, the gauge said like 1/2 still which I was like wtf? So pitch black, im under my steering column using my phone as a light, I switch a fuse around to the one that was blown, turn the key on, and gas goes from 1/2 to about almost a centimeter below E.

Then some kinds on a golf cart came driving by going to circle k, and asked me if I needed help, so i rode back with them to get a gas can, and then they drove me to the gas station that was still open, and I got like 5$ worth of gas, and put it in my taurus, and headed my ass back home, next morning went and filled up lmao

 

[Jothcra]

Let's just say I was so low that the truck wouldn't start because I was parked downhill.

 

[cybergasm]

Let's just say I was so low that the truck wouldn't start because I was parked downhill.

X2 I have also been in this situation more times than i care to recount.

but funniest time was when i let my brother in law borrow my X one day. And i told him it was low on fuel and would need some. He says ok no prob. Well i am work and i get a call from him saying he's in the driveway of building complex and it won;t start. and claims he been trying to get it to start but nothing is happening. So I came home from work to see the X pointed downhill of course so i rolled the truck to the right in the driveway to get it pointed uphill again. and of course it started right up. he was so exasperated after i did that. never borrowed it again

flash forward to 2009 and now he owns his own X that never below 1/4 tank these days.

 

[offroadjosh]

LOl i have ran out once(fuel gauge said i had a 1/4 tank) lol thought that tank lasted a long time so now i use the odometer. And then once driving the cummins out hunting it said i had 0 to go when i finally got to a gas station and put 40gal in a 38 gal tank.. lol



Josh

 

[CmdrPopNFresh]

i have run out of fuel many times...im not too good at that. once i ran dry on my street bike....had to call my buddy to drive back on his bike and take me to a gas station....of course this was coming home from a trip so we both had backpacks and were in the middle of no where.....and i was riding ***** with a gas can strapped to my backpack.....it was pretty funny site.....2 6 foot guys on a 06 ninja screamin down the road with full gear and a gas can

 

[BrianDye]

Hahaha thats funny, well at least a gallon would get you like 50 miles compared to our like 14 lmao

 

[CmdrPopNFresh]

Hahaha thats funny, well at least a gallon would get you like 50 miles compared to our like 14 lmao

hahaha! seriously! i miss riding that thing. i havent ridin it in almost a year...i dont get it. but i used to ride it daily when i lived in california last summer when gas was upwards of 4 bucks a gallon (premium) ....that was fun...driving around everywhere and buying gas with a 20 and still getting change back. but now i have an explorer with a gas gauge that doesnt work....wtf. anyone want to buy a 2007 gsxr?! $5000!

 

[BrianDye]

Haha, im only 17, but when i get out on my own I want a nice bike, I always rode on my uncles when I was a kid and loved it, then dirtbikes and all that..ahhhhhh

 

[CmdrPopNFresh]

Haha, im only 17, but when i get out on my own I want a nice bike, I always rode on my uncles when I was a kid and loved it, then dirtbikes and all that..ahhhhhh

just be careful my friend! ive seen way too many people wreck these things right after they get em.....not to say you dont know haow to ride...its just that i know you enter dangerous teritory when you start to get ****y.

anyway! back to the thread!

another time i was driving my truck and it started to sputter and i yanked the wheel to the first gas station i saw (across the street) and the engine cut out 10 feet from the pump...of course it was uphill....i had to get a push. this was also last summer.....theres something about rediculous gas prices that make people drive on empty as long as they can....

 

[BrianDye]

.....theres something about rediculous gas prices that make people drive on empty as long as they can....

LMFAO I know, I still managed not to let my taurus get below 1/4 tank....was it ever much higher? NO haha.


But yeah I know what you mean, most of the punks around here that get them have that attitude...im not like that lol. Id ride it like a harley lmao

 

[jad2411]

My POS Escort's fuel gauge would randomly work, so sometimes I'd see a half a tank and then run out : I've run out of gas a lot of times, not since ~03 I think, when I bought my 97 Explorer, I don't remember running out on either of my 2 Explorers so it's been a while, might be because I started making more money...

 

[redneckex]

i have gotten down to 11 miles to go and stopped immediatly. luckily i was near a town. i didnt trust how accurate it was until 0. your driving gets somewhat better when you get to 11 miles ill empty.lol

 

[MrQ]

Right now my needle is hovering just above E and that will get me to work and back (I live only a mile away) but one night when I first got my truck I drove it 5 miles from my house to Wal-Mart to get gas on a needle that was on E. I barely made it.

 

[Diff Whack Daddy]

Let's just say I was so low that the truck wouldn't start because I was parked downhill.

I myself have never ran out of gas (knock on wood), unless the riding lawn mower counts. That being said, I do keep a 5 gallon gas can at the house because my wife for some reason thinks the low fuel light is a liar. She has had the nose down no start issue several times.

 

[Doomie17]

i ran out of gas today. was seconds from a gas station going around a turn and started to spurter and ran out right when i got in the station

 

[KillerB74]

i have gotten down to 11 miles to go and stopped immediatly. luckily i was near a town. i didnt trust how accurate it was until 0. your driving gets somewhat better when you get to 11 miles ill empty.lol

I was doing the old slow down to try to make every drop go as far as possible as well! People start to get annoyed when your driving 85km/hr in a 100 zone with a trailer and can't pass you due to oncoming traffic! Going slower also prolonged the agony of finally finding that station!

 

[technoboy235]

Let's just say I was so low that the truck wouldn't start because I was parked downhill.

Haha, I had this problem once, accept I was on a half of a tank in the middle of Rausch Creek Off-Road Park on one of the steeeeep descents. I was able to coast down to the bottom without the engine and then start it at the bottom.

The lowest my tank has ever gotten is empty. I ran out in my Churches parking lot. My friend siphoned some gas into my tank and I went home.

 

[KPT]

I have run out.

Engine didn't die, just lost power and I was able to pull off onto a side road. I had 5 gallons in the back I poured in the tank.

 

[smurfxlt]

i never have more than a quater tank because im broke. ive had the nose down parking problem more times than i can count. never ran out of gas though. today was a close call, we went wheelin and on the way back i was really starting to question if i would make it home or not, and thats sayin something because i drive with the needle under the E all the time!