JFritz

I put my first gas tank in today, and it took 16 gallons to fill. Forgive my ignorance on this, but how big is our gass tank?

SunsetZ

20 Gallons, did you get an owners manual?

s9am_me

iTrader: (1)

i believe their right... i remember seeing it in the manual (yes i read it) somewhere. It was either 18 or 20 gallons. Also you have to account for the reserve too.. someone correct me if i'm wrong

BrokenGods

I think I get the worst gas mileage of anyone on this forum... ~ 210 miles / 16 gallon fillup = 13 miles/gallon :-(

I do all city driving and don't accellerate hard at all.

The Brickyard Rat

iTrader: (1)

Per the owners manual: 20 gal

djkern

wow....i get about 400 miles! do you have a gas leak?

also, it's 20 gallons. when the light comes on...you still have about 3 gallons in the reserve. you can drive at least 60 miles after the light comes on.

i've never been at the point to fill up 20 gallons...but, i've filled up 18 or 19 (only once). i typically fill it up when the light is about to come on.

JFritz

Wow 13 miles to the gallon? I got 20.3 MPG on the first tank.

Thanks for answering.

zand02max

iTrader: (22)

So how hard was the new gas tank install?

JFritz

I should have said, forgive my ignorance on my post.

alindo

It is a 20 gallon tank, I believe 3 gallons of the 20 is a reserve.

djkern

deja vu....i think i said this a few posts up:


"also, it's 20 gallons. when the light comes on...you still have about 3 gallons in the reserve. you can drive at least 60 miles after the light comes on."

MyZ4U2C

Im getting about 24 MPG with mixed city/highway driving.

ares

iTrader: (2)

I ran it down to 13DTE. it was pegged at empty, and light had been on for about 50 miles.

I put like 16.8gallons in. it takes some getting used to but the reserve IMO is a bit large, its about 3gallons from the time where it says 0miles till empty.

but you shouldnt run it dry anyway, so refilling with 3-5gallons left isnt the worst thing in the world.

Beaker02

I do alot for freeway driving and av. around 24mpg.

backagain

iTrader: (3)

i have intake, and use shell 93 octain, on highway doing 70 mph, im averaging over 27 mpg. and 24.3 or so in the city with stop and go driving. i highly advise whatever im doing right,

commasense

Driving like a little old lady?

Either you're accellerating 0-60 in about a minute and a half or your friends are secretly putting gas into your tank at night. Try flooring it once in a while and seeing what this car can really do!

But seriously, you have an AT?

I get 17-20 mpg in the city and 23 or 24 highway only in my 6MT. (It drops to 8-9 on the track!)

Paul_BB_Guy

Well I filled up for the first time a little while ago and I got about 600km's/373M on the tank. That's not so good for such a big tank.

Mind you, I was driving it a little 'spiritedly' but never over 4000 rpm because I'm breaking her in..

Did you know if you type stuff into Google it will do conversions for you?
I typed in "600km to miles" and it gave me the conversion! Very cool!

ares

iTrader: (2)

how much did you fill up? I really doubt you filled it to 20gallons from empty. probably more like 15gallons if you filled up around 1/8th tank. which is almost 25mpg. even at 20gallons your at 17MPG which isnt bad for breaking. gas mileage improves dramaticly in the first 1000miles or so.

Paul_BB_Guy

I Just ran out to the car to check.

There's 576km/358M on the odometer and the gas receipt says I put 65.7l/17.35gallons

20.6mpg - Not too bad. The reserve really is HUGE on these cars... The dte was saying like 20km's when I filled up.

longbowe

The reserve is about 5 gallons. That's when the light comes on. But if you run it until you're getting "----" for DTE while cruising, you've got about 3 gallons left.