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Originally Posted by dssence
Why wait ? Again this is the sort of discussion about the car having to break up to a certain amout of kilometers?.
This is not rocket science, obviously each quarter it's not measured precisely on the fuel meter. But it's giving an approxiamte measurement of each quarter could be 12.5 liters name it 13.5 not more than that.
So my calculation it's not far from reality and far from being practical it's what's happening for real. And reality is saying i''ve done only 60km with just 1/4 tank want it or not.
Tell you more.. on my first tank I reached to the last quarter of the tank , and have only done 140 km don't know what else you want me to do, reach up to the point where the low fuel led starts blinking and there tell you how many km i've done, just to sound more logical?. No thanks.
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Or it could be 8 liters, or it could be 14. I've never found car fuel gauges to be terribly accurate, especially in the upper half of the travel.
As for what you should do? No, you don't have to go until it starts blinking, but you should base your fuel usage on how much fuel it takes to top off the tank, not how much you think is gone based on the gas gauge.
Finally, 140km down to the bottom quarter is really bad, but it is possible depending on driving style. As I asked above, how are you driving?