I made the mistake of assuming a little village petrol station would be still there at the weekend, only to find it had closed down and the nearest one was still a good few miles away.
Had the bottom clenching experience of running 12 miles past the time it said zero on the range, with the needle well below the red, and pensioners overtaking me in their Nissan Micras as I struggled to make it to the next gas station.

Made it though

Did you feel any surge as the car lost power, I read that the real sign to look out for as it's the engines way of saying I'll run out if you don't do something now Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

No but then I was nursing it along at 30mph

Funnily enough when I filled up I had a problem with the card reader and forgot to replace the filler cap drove off and couldnt work out why there was a flat spot and no power above a certain point, must be the air in the tank maybe and no pressure? Once i replaced it the motor was fine

I have been on zero miles at home at the bottom of a mile long 1 in 10 hill, had to go up in first cos of the loss of power thing, then coast for 3 miles to the petrol station before pulling out at 10 miles an hour on to a 70mph duel carriage way-phew thats hair raising

Then you have to open and close the door remote then start up in neutral until it finishes 'checkin system' on the read out then It's back to full power-sometimes you have to repeat this. (nearly run out once a month )

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I tested mine in the Aussie outback near Alice Springs. When the gauge said empty, it was empty. I got the power cut off and all. I had a jerry can of diesel with me but I wanted to see if empty meant empty or whether I had another 100 km's left which is the case in some other cars.

Mike

Hell off a way to see what range and mpg you can get to a full tank

Pretty sure the FL2 wont actually let you run completely out of fuel to the point it damages the system. I think it cuts the poer when you're really low then just before you actually run out, the car will cut out, albeit still with fuel in the pipes and fuel pumps so they don't die. 09MY FL2 Td4 XS, Style Pack, Privacy Glass, Martinique Blue.. oh so very blue..

jp wrote:

Hell off a way to see what range and mpg you can get to a full tank

These trips you mention sound fantastic to me, would love to come to Oz and drive around, but the wife would want to fly between locations and miss the adventure

same goes for the US of A would live to drive across coast to coast Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Mate, the 900km's were done at about 40km's an hour over corrugations a lot of the time, only slightly more fun than hitting your thumb with a hammer . But you are right, in general the trips are fantastic. Having said that, I have done 3 driving holidays of 10,000 kms each through the UK, Europe and Scandinavia and they were brilliant fun too. I'm jealous of how close in Oz terms that you guys are to some great places. Ditto on the US.