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Stranded on the freeway twice in one month (fuel starvation)

So I have had fuel starvation in the past (mainly on the track) but never actually got stranded from it (just lost power for a few seconds). I only had

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Old 05-06-2013, 06:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Stranded on the freeway twice in one month (fuel starvation)

So I have had fuel starvation in the past (mainly on the track) but never actually got stranded from it (just lost power for a few seconds).

I only had it happen once on the road and that was in a hard/long right turn and I was very low in gas (2 dots).

Fast forward to recently...

Well the day before my birthday last month taking a big 270 degree off-ramp which i took kinda hard but had over a quarter tank so didn't think it would be a problem but sure enough I got stranded. Kind of in a bad spot too I let my car roll down a bit to get in a better spot. I was hoping it would recover like in the past but later I realized that because it was so uphill it did not recover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDt76b6BCg

Here is where it happened (where onram/offramp started and I ended up):

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=C...sz=18&t=m&z=18

And today. Less than a month of getting stranded on the 71 now I got it on the 15 south. I really was not expecting it this time. I was down to 3 dots but it wasn't that hard of a right turn. I lost power as I was accelerating and shortly after I got into third gear. Not only was the right not very sharp but the incline was much less this time again but i guess due to it being up-hil the car can't recover. After filling it up after I still had > 2 gallons of gas left.

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5hOXqiEtCU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riK2oSCdoI4

This one happened here (where onram/offramp started and I ended up):

https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=U...sz=18&t=m&z=18

Seems to me that this is going to happen at a bad time for someone at some point and possibly cause an accident and Nissan is going to get hit with a lawsuit. I wish they had a fix for this. Needless to say I am going to be extra careful from now on.
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