Anybody run out of gas yet?
 

Has any body run their Z completely out of gas yet?
If so, did it happen right around the time guage indicated empty?

I'm just kinda curious to see how close the fuel guage display is compared to actual amount of fuel left in the tank when you'e almost out of gas.

One of my other cars seems to have about a gallon left in the tank when the guage says empty but the other car is damn sure empty when the guage says empty.... This got me to wondering about how the Z is in this scenario, but I don't want to run it out of gas. :driving:

one way to find out ;)

take one for the team :tup:

and report back!

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Just drive around your neighborhood with a gas can in the back. I had to do it when my trans am's fuel gauge started slipping

I'm not curious enough (or too lazy) to actually run the car out on my own. There has to be someone in the forum who has done it by now... if only they're not too embarassed to admit they ran out of gas.

I read in a thread yesterday that some people have run their indicator till it was out of lights and still made it like 20 more miles. The miles left on tank was already at 0 because it's based averages and not definitives.

Cosmo Kramer!!

True, at two dots/lights showing, the warning comes on and the tank will still have a little over 2 gallons in it. At the combined hwy/city average, you can go another 45 or 50 miles. It will hit no dots/lights in another 30 miles or so, so about 20 miles left after zero dots. Bottom line, with the safety cushion Nissan has left us, you'd have to really push it to end up out of gas.

yeah i've gotten myself worried before, but 20-ish or more miles after the display reads 0 and the dots are all gone is right. i was just barely hitting the gas at that point to be safe and i'm sure any sort of WOT driving would've left me stranded.

simple, fill up the car BEFORE the gauge is down to empty. why do so many people wait until the car is running on fumes before they fill up?

Don't run it to empty because if you get on the gas you might find yourself stranded due to the tank design not allowing the last of the fuel to be used under certain conditions. Fill up at 1/4 tank or above if you want to avoid a surprise.

Peace on that....fill up no later than 1/4 tank, period.

I actually did run out of gas about a month ago. The gauge said I had 32 miles to go until empty, but I was running the car balls-out that night. Sure enough, about 1/4 mile away from my house the car shut down. I had to walk half a mile to the gas station and back at 3 am to get my car going again. Lesson learned - don't redline the car when you have less than 50 miles left.

It's not good for you to run the tank meter completely empty. The sensor that averages the amount of gas you have tells you when you need to fill up. If you constantly fill up with you have little to no gas left, the sensor will tell you to fill up sooner (even if you have a decent sum of gas in the tank) as to when you are low on gas.

I made the same mistake with a 1/4 tank, same result, but at least it wasn't 3am ;)

I will rarely let the Z go below 1/4 tank. During the Spring & Summer if I use the car everyday I will fill up every Sunday.

I usually fill up when i'm between 1/2 and 1/4 tank. I never wait until i'm on fumes before filling up unless I have a complete brain fart and forget to fill up earlier. :confused:

I posed the question because I was just curious as to how much I should sweat when the guage starts to get real low. Some cars are more forgiving than others in this situation and I hadn't yet heard where the 370 fit in.

Thanks to the members who have been brave enough to admit that they ran out of gas... especially in this forum. :stirthepot:

Technically I didn't run out of gas, I just couldn't use the gas I had :rolleyes:

I seem to run outta gas everyday now about 4:00 pm............... it's a bitch gettin' old :p

The Candy Bar lineup :icon18:

i ran out of gas after a few races at the strip. Was finished racing, headed home and was heading to a station when the car died....luckly i coasted right into the gas station...was like 20ft away when it died. It will show 1 dot when you run out.

I believe that Edmunds.com had an editor that tested this (must have been atleast 6 months ago). Concluded that the gauge was off....

I went a whole tank with normal driving, no redlining or anything. To see how many miles the tank could go. I went to Zero lights and filled up with 18.2 gallons. I think the tank holds 18.5 ? so pretty much empty.

19.2 tank, so you have about another gallon left.

I ran out of gas... on the test drive.

I wanted to spend under $30k, so first the wife and I drove a base model. It was SR, which wasn't my first choice but between that and black the red won (I've had a black car before, won't go there again). It was low on gas so they gave me $5 and asked me to put a couple gallons in. I had fun on the drive and liked it of course, liked it a lot. :) When I got back I checked out the other Z's they had. They had a Nismo in BS, but that was way out of my budget, so then I looked at the touring model in PG. Liked the color, liked the extra features, so I decided to spend the extra cash and get the touring. I figured I should drive it just to make sure, and I noticed the gas was even lower on this one. They gave me another $5, but I only made it half way to the gas station before it ran out. I called the dealer and they said someone will be right there, it took at least 20 minutes before the pimple-faced lot boy showed up with some gas. I spent the 20 minutes checking out the car inside and out, so it didn't bother me much - my wife OTOH was not amused. :shakes head:

IIRC there was one dot when we ran out. Since then I've gone all the way down to no dots without running out - strange.

I beat you. I filled up 18.4 gallons one time. :tup:

this warning light is supposed to go on

http://i49.tinypic.com/1r42h2.jpg

I fill up when I hit a qtr left. 3 decades of driving and never ran out of gas.

Never go low:

1. If you ever get stuck in traffic, u r dead.
2. Ever get called on an emergency and find out you are low on gas? Every minute counts and you don't want to to be looking at a gas station.
3. Ever lost in a bad neighborhood?
4. Ever with your love ones in the middle of the night and you are in between cities?
5. Anyone remember the California Northridge earthquake? All gas stations were down! You can have all the $ in the world but no gas to buy. I am sure other states have had calamities where $ is worthless.

My friend there is always gas around when you need it, might just be in the parking spot next to you. Thats why you need to carry a hose with you. Ive gone down to the message center thing telling me 18 miles to empty

Something just occurred to me. Our fuel pumps are in the tank, right? I remember reading somewhere that the fuel pumps in the tank get hot in a dry tank without any fuel to dissipate the heat, shortening the life of the pump. Any thoughts on this? I may need to change my habit of waiting until the low-fuel light comes on.

Wanton spending had me low on cash until payday (today, huzzah!) so I was milking the tank for all it was worth last night...

At around 2 dots I had 20-some miles range.

Just before 1 dot the range turned into a flashing --- (not zeros as shown above).

Never got to none-dots, but when I filled up it only took about 17.5 gallons :icon14: I was disappointed! I'm like, man I had almost 2 gallons left at one dot and --- range? Still... I'd rather not push it. Getting much under one dot you run the risk of not getting it started again.

So I've heard mixing different gas brands isn't the best idea and you should run it fairly low before fill up. On the other hand I imagine running out completely could be bad for the engine... any credence (Clearwater or otherwise) to that theory?

How low do you get it? If you constantly keep running on fumes you might have an issue. Aslong as fluid is in the tank and being sucked by the pump it should keep it cool. A pump doesn't know the difference if there is a full talk or quarter as long as theres enough in there to do its job. Its the same story with any related pump. If you are pumping nothing you're gonna overheat

mine warns me to about 28 miles till then doers --- blink---blink ...

i wish i had a bigger gas tank. F430's have 25 gallon tanks.

1/4 tank is too late if you drive enthusiastically with this car, it can die on a right hand or up hill turn. Anything less than 1/2 a tank and I fill it. You can drive it down to zero dots if you drive like an old lady.

nah it doesn't work. I haven't run completely out of gas but the gauge will say 30mi then a couple mins later it will say 25, and then out of no where it will just read "---".

That's exactly right. Fuel in the tank assists in cooling the pump.

yep its annoying

If you're a gas mileage nazi, you would only fill halfway up and run it nearly out every time. Gasoline weighs about 6.3 lb per gallon (assuming premium). Running only 9 gal max would save you nearly 60 lbs. LOL.

Actually, I completely ran out of gas one day. I went to work and then had a final to take right after I got out. But, was running on empty already where I really needed to get gas so I told myself on the way to school I was going to fill up. Half way there I found a Chevron and right when I was across the street waiting for the light to turn green my car started choking and gave up on me. I had to run across the street and buy the damn gas tanks and put in the gas manually. I was like what's the chances of the car stopping right before you get to Chevron. I learned my lesson and never let it go past a quarter of a tank remaining. My advice bro don't let it happen !!!