Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

misterroy wrote:

I had to travel 76 miles after the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi

I think the most I ever risked was 45 miles in my A4 3.0 TDI, knowing
the biggest fill-up I ever managed was about 60 litres for a book
capacity of 64 litres ...

On 27/06/2019 18:27, misterroy wrote:
Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?


At what point does the warning light come on? The display panel of my
petrol VW passat of similar age would give a warning when the distance
available got down to 40 miles. It would go more than 40 miles but I
never found what the limit was.

--
Michael Chare

"misterroy" wrote in message
...
Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the
fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

my light come on when the computer tells me that I still have 50 miles of
fuel

but when I fill up 20 miles later I am still 15-20 litres short of an empty
tank

Could probably easily manage 150 mile after the light is first on (bloody
useless really)

I don't drive an Audi so I suppose that eliminates me from the competition

tim

Michael Chare wrote:

At what point does the warning light come on?

about 40 miles range, but I meant after the trip computer got to zero

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:19:40 +0100
Chris Hogg wrote:

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:27:49 -0700 (PDT), misterroy
wrote:

Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after
the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate. I
was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it. Can anyone beat that?

Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'. IIRC there
was actually no such tank, but the normal take-off from the tank was a
little way off the bottom, with a second take-off lower down and
nearer to the bottom, so in effect the lowest part of the tank was the
reserve. Again IIRC there was a tap somewhere in the fuel pipe that
you opened manually to allow the engine to use the 'reserve tank'.
Quite how you knew when to open that tap I don't know; presumably when
the car chugged to a halt!


My Herald 13/60 had a fuel pipe that was inserted at an angle, the
normal orientation meant that the bottom part of the pipe was
horizontal in the tank. Turning the fitting where the pipe entered
rotated the pipe 90 deg, so that the bottom part of the pipe in the
tank was now at the deepest part. Worked a treat.

--
Davey.

On 27/06/2019 19:19, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:27:49 -0700 (PDT), misterroy
wrote:

Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'. IIRC there
was actually no such tank, but the normal take-off from the tank was a
little way off the bottom, with a second take-off lower down and
nearer to the bottom, so in effect the lowest part of the tank was the
reserve. Again IIRC there was a tap somewhere in the fuel pipe that
you opened manually to allow the engine to use the 'reserve tank'.
Quite how you knew when to open that tap I don't know; presumably when
the car chugged to a halt!

Beetle? Don't think it was common on British cars, but of course it was
standard on classic British motorbikes.

On 27/06/2019 19:54, newshound wrote:
On 27/06/2019 19:19, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:27:49 -0700 (PDT), misterroy
wrote:

Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after
the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'. IIRC there
was actually no such tank, but the normal take-off from the tank was a
little way off the bottom, with a second take-off lower down and
nearer to the bottom, so in effect the lowest part of the tank was the
reserve. Again IIRC there was a tap somewhere in the fuel pipe that
you opened manually to allow the engine to use the 'reserve tank'.
Quite how you knew when to open that tap I don't know; presumably when
the car chugged to a halt!

Beetle? Don't think it was common on British cars, but of course it was
standard on classic British motorbikes.

Rover P6 has a switched reserve

--
Cheers, Rob

On 27/06/2019 18:27, misterroy wrote:
Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.

Can anyone beat that?

Probably. My Scudo once ran out of fuel with the computer telling me
there were 50 miles left to go.

The warning light usually come on with 60 miles to go. A full fill up at
that point is always 75 litres of a 80 litre tank. And that for some
reason is on a van that does 30MPG?

The most I have managed to put into the 80 litre tank is 86 litres after
driving several miles with the computer telling me my range was zero..



--
Adam

On 27/06/2019 20:23, RJH wrote:
On 27/06/2019 19:54, newshound wrote:
On 27/06/2019 19:19, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:27:49 -0700 (PDT), misterroy
wrote:

Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after
the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'. IIRC there
was actually no such tank, but the normal take-off from the tank was a
little way off the bottom, with a second take-off lower down and
nearer to the bottom, so in effect the lowest part of the tank was the
reserve. Again IIRC there was a tap somewhere in the fuel pipe that
you opened manually to allow the engine to use the 'reserve tank'.
Quite how you knew when to open that tap I don't know; presumably when
the car chugged to a halt!

Beetle? Don't think it was common on British cars, but of course it
was standard on classic British motorbikes.

Rover P6 has a switched reserve

Never knew that.

In article ,
misterroy wrote:
Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the
fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate. I was
pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it. Can anyone beat that?

No miles till you run out readout? How very crude. Thought Audi were
upmarket.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article ,
Chris Hogg wrote:
Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'.

Not very common at all. Common on motorbikes with no fuel gauge, though.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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In article ,
RJH wrote:
Beetle? Don't think it was common on British cars, but of course it
was standard on classic British motorbikes.

Rover P6 has a switched reserve

Not a switch - a cable operated valve.

--
*Never miss a good chance to shut up.*

Dave Plowman London SW
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On 27/06/2019 18:27, misterroy wrote:
Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after
the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate. I
was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it. Can anyone beat that?

I try not to

Somewhere I saw a table of those distances.

40-60 is average.

Presumably Audi think their customers are stupid ****s.

Judging by the way their products are driven, I cant argue with that.




--
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Adolf Hitler

On 27/06/2019 19:19, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:27:49 -0700 (PDT), misterroy
wrote:

Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'. IIRC there
was actually no such tank, but the normal take-off from the tank was a
little way off the bottom, with a second take-off lower down and
nearer to the bottom, so in effect the lowest part of the tank was the
reserve. Again IIRC there was a tap somewhere in the fuel pipe that
you opened manually to allow the engine to use the 'reserve tank'.
Quite how you knew when to open that tap I don't know; presumably when
the car chugged to a halt!

Yep. IIRC my Triumph herald had those.

Indeed you waited till it stopped, got out, opened te boot, moved the
lever and proceeded to the nearest petrol station

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the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

- Bertrand Russell

Was it downhill? :-)

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"misterroy" wrote in message
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Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the
fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:19:40 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

snip

Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'. IIRC there
was actually no such tank, but the normal take-off from the tank was a
little way off the bottom, with a second take-off lower down and
nearer to the bottom, so in effect the lowest part of the tank was the
reserve.

Sounds like the setup used on many many motorcycles. ;-)

The Mrs's Yamaha XV750 had light on the dash telling her she was on
'reserve' but that was more like many many cars, where it was just a
low level indicator. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:54:06 +0100, newshound
wrote:

snip

Don't think it was common on British cars, but of course it was
standard on classic British motorbikes.

A Main / Res / Off tap was / is (also) standard on pretty well all
makes of motorbike. My Honda, BMW, Kawasaki [1] and MZ all have them,
as does daughters Suzuki 600 [1] and my Messerschmitt KR200 bubble
car. ;-)

'Her' Yamaha XV750 [1] has a low fuel light and my Yamaha YPR250 [1]
scooter has a fuel gauge (and possibly a low fuel light).

Cheers, T i m

[1] I believe those also have a vacuum operated fuel tap so rather
than Main / Res / Off I think it's Main / Reserve and Prime ( so you
can get some fuel in to start the engine to gain some vacuum to
operate the tap). ;-)

..

On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 1:07:55 AM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Chris Hogg wrote:
Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'.

Not very common at all. Common on motorbikes with no fuel gauge, though.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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ISTR the early Beetle had a switch on the floor. But then it didnt have a fuel gauge

And the Triumph Herald had one in the boot I think

On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 1:07:54 AM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
misterroy wrote:
Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the
fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate. I was
pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it. Can anyone beat that?

No miles till you run out readout? How very crude. Thought Audi were
upmarket.

--
*Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

Dave Plowman London SW
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Warning light comes on with an estimated distance of about 70 miles in my car. Actual distance depends on driving style of course. The range will drop slowly, end easily exceed the original estimate, until it gets to about 20 miles at which point it drops rapidly (Though I had a brother-in-law who claimed he got more miles to the gllon when he filled the tank and when he had to switch in the reserve on his Beetle drove like the clappers)

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Warning light comes on with an estimated distance of about 70 miles in my
car. Actual distance depends on driving style of course. The range will
drop slowly, end easily exceed the original estimate, until it gets to
about 20 miles at which point it drops rapidly

On my Peugeot 308, the warning comes on when the estimated range (from the
trip computer) changes drops below 100 miles. That's plenty of time to find
a garage.

On my wife's Honda CR-V, it's at about 30 miles estimated range, which is
cutting it a bit fine.

Mind you, I try to fill up before the level gets low enough to trigger the
warning, in case the myths are true about starting to suck up grot from the
bottom of the tank when the level gets low, and in case I'm a long way from
a garage when I start to run low.

On 28/06/2019 10:27, wrote:
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 1:07:55 AM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Chris Hogg wrote:
Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'.

Not very common at all. Common on motorbikes with no fuel gauge, though.

--
*Plagiarism saves time *

Dave Plowman London SW
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ISTR the early Beetle had a switch on the floor. But then it didnt have a fuel gauge

And the Triumph Herald had one in the boot I think


It had a pickup pipe that either sucked from about 50 mm from the bottom
or 10 mm from the bottom when you moved the lever.

There was a good chance the pipe would get blocked or suck water when
you used it.

Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:27:49 -0700 (PDT), misterroy
wrote:

Due to a series of events yesterday I had to travel 76 miles after the
fuel light came on in my 14 year old Audi A4 1.9 tdi estate.
I was pulling a trailer with about 150kg in it.
Can anyone beat that?

Years ago, (many years because it was when my father was alive and he
died in 1960, so 1950's) cars would have a 'reserve tank'. IIRC there
was actually no such tank, but the normal take-off from the tank was a
little way off the bottom, with a second take-off lower down and
nearer to the bottom, so in effect the lowest part of the tank was the
reserve. Again IIRC there was a tap somewhere in the fuel pipe that
you opened manually to allow the engine to use the 'reserve tank'.
Quite how you knew when to open that tap I don't know; presumably when
the car chugged to a halt!


Cars of the Triumph Herald family only had one pipe but moving the lever on
the tank which lived in the side of the boot lowered that pipe down
further.

And yes you got to know when the engine stated to misfire as the
carburettor bowls emptied, usually got enough warning to get to the side
and move the lever rather than come to an absolute halt,though you wouldnt
want to be planning on doing that on todays roads which are a lot busier
but also have far less small areas to pull into as lay-bys ,basic cafes and
just bits of wasteland have been develop or blocked off.

GH

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:09:30 +0100, "NY" wrote:

snip

On my Peugeot 308, the warning comes on when the estimated range (from the
trip computer) changes drops below 100 miles. That's plenty of time to find
a garage.

On my wife's Honda CR-V, it's at about 30 miles estimated range, which is
cutting it a bit fine.

It's funny how that 'safe' distance can change, depending on where you
are, even in the UK. ;-)

Like. We were making our way back from Dunnet Head to Dornoch on her
Virago 750 and my BMW R100RT when she indicated that her low fuel
light had come on. Now normally / traditionally / typically that has
been more than enough warning to finding a petrol station, pretty well
any time of the day and day of the week, where we normally motorcycle
anyway. ;-)

Long / short, 'she' finally ran out of fuel after probably 25-30 miles
and siphoning 50% of what I had left over to her (I had a bigger tank
as we would have filled up at the same time) in the hope we would find
somewhere before we both ran out! ;-(

Luckily we did ... and that taught us to not take such things for
granted, even 'only' in Scotland. ;-)

Cheers, T i m