| extrashaky |
08-28-2018 06:26 PM |
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Originally Posted by 02.ACCORD.DUDE
(Post 3126802)
While on the topic of the gas gauge... How much is typically left in the tank when the gas light comes on?
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I have an old Galaxy Note that I use as an engine monitor running Torque. I have it set up to run a fuel gauge that reads out what the car's computer thinks is left in the tank, displayed in gallons.
The light consistently comes on when the car thinks it has 2.4 gallons of usable fuel left. There is literally zero variation in that number from what I have observed. It's always 2.4 gallons. I'm not sure if that's what's actually in the tank, but that's what the car thinks is there.
Whoever said three gallons isn't wrong either, though. 2.4 usable gallons is about three gallons of actual fuel in the tank, since there's roughly a half gallon of fuel at the bottom of the tank below the pickup that the car can't use. Tcoat can confirm that the unusable fuel at the bottom is to give water and debris a place to collect without being sucked up into the pickup.
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