1/3 of a tank and I'm filling up. I hope ur not like my bro in law. He goes on empty constantly and only puts $20 at a time in gas. Straight cheapskate status on his part. Kinda corny to have a gas guzzling sports car on E most of the time.

Lol

Never understood the $20-at-a-time strategy. You don't save any money in the long run, and its so inconvenient. Although I guess it keeps your car lighter, so that might be worth a few pennies or something.

everything is expensive in Mill Valley, eh?

Well I did a quick search on Google and came up with this article.

Nissan Recalls Half a Million Models - U.S. News Rankings and Reviews

"A separate recall concerns the 2005-2008 Nissan Armada, Titan and Infiniti QX56, as well as Nissan Frontiers, Pathfinders and Xterras produced between January and March 2006 or October 2007 and January 2008. Vehicles at higher mileage levels may have faulty gas gauges that show a quarter tank of gas is left even when the tank is almost empty."

http://www.insideline.com/nissan/nis...-vehicles.html

"Standish said that typically "fuel goes down to a quarter of a tank and [the gauge] will stop." He noted there are two causes for the faulty fuel gauge. One is a problem with corrosion on the sensor that causes "an interference with the electronics on the sensor," he said. The other is a mechanical problem "where part of the sensor system will come in contact with the side of the fuel tank," he said. No accidents, injuries or deaths are related to the faulty fuel gauge recall."

This sounds EXACTLY like all of the issues here. There must be a fix for this since they did recall those cars. Maybe just Nissan isn't aware of this issue for the 370Z?

I wouldn't say all. There are definitely some faulty sensors, it happened on my G35 when I ran out of fuel with it showing half a tank. The other issue is that if you push the car you can run out of fuel while you still actually have a 1/4 of a tank (fuel starvation), but the fuel is inaccessible.

Save here. Just don't go below 1/4 tank

How about setting one of the trip meters (I use A for gas and B for oil changes) at zero when you fill up? At 300 miles I fill up and don't have to worry about how many "dots" I have remaining on the fuel guage. :ugh2:

I'm glad there's one person that has gone as far as I have. I was to lazy on my way home from work to stop for gas an it went from reading 29 miles to --- to ---- a few seconds later. I'll probably put a gallon in with a can the fill the rest at a gas station just to be safe. But I'll be sure to keep it above 1/4 tank from now on.:tup:

Mine never shows all dots and goes from 1/4 to 0 in about 20 miles. Therefore I only drive 350-360 miles between fill ups.

African American actually............

After reading all of these posts it is probably better & safer to fill up at a 1/4 of a tank.

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Do you guys know how much your car fills up gallon wise? My car only gets about 16.7-16.8 gallons on a fill up. Is that right?

You might need your fuel sender replaced... couple people on the forum have had the same types of issues.

Well I've learned a my lesson when it comes to replacing parts that might fail. I started having little trouble with clutch and I replaced almost all of it. Flywheel, clutch disc, pressure plate, and slave with an HD slave. Well it cost me about $1700 only to make it worst and harder to drive. My car has suffered from all the issues-slave, fuel gauge, back wheel noise at low speeds, and now ECU whine. Well I wont be worrying about anything until the **** brakes down. Its a my fault for getting the first production year on this model it comes with all the little bugs that get worked out later as model years go by. Ill just drive 350 miles on tank and/or wont let it go below 1/4 tank.

The Z's tank holds 19 gallons. So your leaving about 2 gallons everytime you fill up.

I wait for the light to go on before thinking about putting gas in. Been down to zero a couple of times. Usually jumps from 20 right down to zero. WTF, I'm still good.

2011, 1st batch after the tsunami. Even had the "passed radiation" dots on it. Don't think they did anything to fix this one it but so far so good on the fuel starvation issue. Wish I could say the same for the hot oil thing.

I had my fuel senders replaced at ~20k. After the replacement, the fuel gauge now reads full after filling up.

The range is usually pretty accurate. I can get up to 400 miles to the tank when I fill up at the last dot! :)

400 miles!?!???

You must be a wizard because max I can get is 360. Lately it's been like 300 though since I got my exhaust lol

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Man 400 miles is the best!!! Just want to share this. Just got off from chevron and I filled to 19.xx gallons. That's will be top off. Look at my gas gauge. The bars won't go full. Take this picture with my receipt. Go to dealer and showed to my service manager. Because this is my second attempted to dealer. First trip. They test it out and said no problem. So I decided to do this. The gasoline station to the dealer just 3 miles away. So there's no way I can burned 2 bars in 3-5 mins. So they took my car in. Then after couple of hours. They called me and told me yes the gas gauge was defected. They said just pick up my car and return the loaner and use the z t low the gas because they need it to be low. Since the part have to order 3-5 days. They will call me and bring the car back in. So whoever in forum got same issues. Just bring the car in or do same thing like I did. Sorry for a bad English.


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And one more thing is full tank my car just go 300 miles. And 11.5 mpg. So bad. Since this is not my daily car anymore then I don't really mind about it. Lol!!:)


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Asian 2nd Grader because American 2nd Grader can't even subtract two digit numbers. :stirthepot:

What rpm do you upshift?

Maybe you should have them reset your TPMS too! ;)

I have the same issue. There's a thread dedicating to this:
http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-w...ll-way-up.html

They towed my car to dealer because of steering lock mechanism was bad and body control module was bad too. So they replaced 2 parts then reprogram my key. bring it home tested the other key. But didn't work.I got a low tire pressure on the day I picked up my car I was thinking maybe no big deal so I take it home. Then checked out 4 wheels but all around 30 psi so I know it was good so I was thinking they changed my frequency so they also need to reset or reprogram the tire sensors too. On the day they towed my car to the dealer I mentioned to them about the fuel gauge. they noted it and tested out. The result was just normal/working... So since I have to bring my car in to reprogram my key and reset the tires sensors. Then I go filled full tank and show them the evidence. Now they say yes it was bad and they will replace the fuel sending unit. They also done a recall for our z. All the 2010 z owners with nav there's a recall for our map update or software update. I'm not saying they wil update your nav to 2012 (I wish) they just going to update the software....


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I swear once I get under 20miles remaining, it all the sudden turns to the three dashes "---" indicating no miles remaining. There must be something seriously wrong with my fuel sensors.

Yeah u should bring it to dealer and have them replace it.


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No, it's normal. I have the same. So when my fuel indicator has 2 lights left, it shows roughly 40 miles left. And then when it's down to 1 light left, it will turn into "---" like you mentioned. From my some daring experience, you roughly have 2 gallons left with 1 light and 0.5 gallon left when all lights are gone.

I was thinking of doing an experiment. When the low fuel warning comes on (two dots) reset the odometer and drive it until it runs out of gas! To see how many miles you really can go... But I am kinda scared. lol

Don't do it buddy. And it's depends. If u going to do the experiment. Pls do the following for us too.:)

Do it and run normal.
Do it then run aggressive.
Do it when u sit in the traffic.

I'm just kidding. Well don't do it!!!:)


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usually about 2.5k. But I always try to fill up before i get to 3 lights so maybe thats why lol

Your fuel pump is cooled by the fuel in your tank so letting it drop low will overheat your pump and cause an early failure,, this goes for all cars with an in tank fuel pump...........

It must be an American 2nd Grader
 

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:inoutroflpuke:

No disrespect to American 2nd graders just our educational system sucks.

Just to share my recent experience. 2 dots left and flashing low fuel with about 38 miles remaining. Filled up the tank with 18 gallons. So I have about 1 gallon left in the tank based on the 19 gallon capacity. I suppose the computer is off by about 20 miles assuming I get about 18 mpg unless there is some sort of reserve capacity beyond the 19 gallons.

I also have a flaky fuel gauge but an FYI you should try to keep about 1/4 tank as the internal fuel pumps are fluid cooled don't want them to fail prematurely

I've heard this mentioned several times. And I know Nissan is stupid. But I seriously wonder if the pump relies on gas in tank to keep cool. Or at least how much fluid is needed in the tank to keep it cool.

FWIW, I typically use 18+ gallons every tank - rarely do I fill up with less than 17.5 gal. After nearly 70K miles, and a number of brutally hot Texas summers, I've had zero issues with my fuel pump :twocents:

Fuel Pump
 

Just my Opinion. The fuels probably lubricates the pump, and cools.

I think it is fine as long as gas is being pumped through regardless of the remaining fuel level in the tank.

I did hear that some fuel pumps are lubricated by the fuel, but I don't know if it is the case for our cars.

I've had the same problem on both my 09 Base Z and '12 Roaster Sprt.

Weird/sucks

I don't think your bullshittin but how true is this?