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I say run it dry and have some Jerry cans with exactly the tank spec in them. See if you can fill them up (even slowly at the end).
There’s one other possibility in that the DTE and fuel light settings are messed up. You said that the light is supposed to come on with 2.3 gallons left — but you also said your wife says it comes on with the DTE around 40 (and it wasn’t on when you filled up with 39 on the DTE). At 2.3 gallons DTE should be around 90 miles. So I bet that the DTE mignt not actually be 0 with 0 displayed — since, you know, Toyota drivers... they are holding more reserve, so less to go in on top.
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Seriously. It would be tempting to solve the fuel tank issue and I'd be just as annoyed. That said... 95% of the time, I wouldn't use more than 10-11 gallons, if that, of the 14.5 tank, worrying about fuel pumps and all... Do you really want to do all this legwork? It's not that rare a car, likely will sell like hotcakes and the fix might be much easier a year on. |
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I'm sure you already thought of this, but this fuel difference will really become a factor the first time you load it up and take a trip to the in-laws. At least, with my Mom's Prius MPG's really dropped when doing highway driving. If you have to stop every 250 miles to add gas, Tesla owners will be pointing at you and giggling
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06-13-2019, 10:34 AM | #115 |
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Tesla owners are already doing that
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IMO, unless someone has actually run the fucker dry and verified, this seems like a silly discussion.
Where manufacturers set the low fuel limits is highly variable. My truck, for example, kicks the low fuel light on and shows empty on the gauge with 8-9 gallons remaining in the tank. (Out of 26.) This is just how GM likes it set. So yeah, run it dry and see. I don't see how putting fuel in when you haven't even gotten the low fuel light that may or may not activate at a certain point on means anything at all. Traditionally, there is an expansion tank that overfilling can also put fuel in, plus there is the filler neck, so forcing extra fuel in isn't really meaningful either. Edit: And by dry. I mean verified that the tank was empty. Unless Toyota has has put real effort in, I can't imagine that the fuel pickup will actually drain the tank dry. Edit2: I mean, thinking about this some more... Notwithstanding destroying the evap components by pushing fuel in, with have the fuel automatically cutting at 9.6 gallons, plus 2.3 gallons notional reserve = 11.9 gallons. PLUS, we have whatever delta there is between the reserve light and clyde filling the tank. PLUSPLUS, we have a question about what the end of the reserve is defined as. Is it 2.3 gallons in the tank? Or is it 2.3 gallons that the fuel pump can get to? This really seems like a gigantic nothingburger to me. Am I missing something here?
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Car operates as having ~450 mile city range. There's a lot of flavor in that burger. If the instrumentation is lying, that presents other issues.
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You can’t seriously expect to run it that low regularly.
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