fuel warning light

[Damo]

hey all,

can someone please tell me if the fuel warning light is supposed to come on when the ignition is first turned on. My fuel gauge is almost on empty, no warning light yet? Thinking the light may be blown or maybe i have a few liters to burn still.

[Nizmo]

mine doesnt come on til i hit the E. How much fuel u have left to play with after that i dont know - i try and fill up asap once the light comes on.

[dru32]

ive taken it to 30kms after the light came on...

ne1 know how much further i could have gone?

Not that i wanto test it, i dun want all that shit at the bottom of my tank to go thru my car

[WHITE R32]

this reminds me of the old sienfeld episode where cramer test drove the saab to see how far it could go after the light came on.....lol

[DREMEN]

DOes my R33 GTS-T skyline even have a fuel light?

I have never seen it come on.......

[MYGTST]

when the light comes on you have aprox 10 litres left in the tank

by my experiences

[dAVE]

mine has a fuel light... but it didnt come on last time I dont think...

i think i have done around 50km.... just . i was told there is about 8l left when it comes on.

[skyzerr33]

mine gives a quick flash at 15litres left

then stays on solid with 10 litres left.

[Damo]

Well I am well below E now after 450kms and still no light. I am trusting that it will come on soon, otherwise I will be getting my monies worth from the NRMA.

[Airzone]

Running out of fuel in a fuel injected car is bad for the injectors, right? My gauge reads empty and to fill it up takes 45 litres... So I think my gague is a bit out. But I've never seen a fuel warning light come on.

[WHITE R32]

i see my light when it wants to be seen .... its very in consistant... when it gets to a stage where it does come on all the time near the "E" i dont get up it at all...... get fuel.......save engine....

[Guest RedLineGTR]

skylines take about 60 or so litres, if i'm wrong please correct me. gauge might be abit dodgy, depends if the cars on a flat surface. But with cars with injectors, your should still have fuel left in the tank so all that crud dosent get sucked up, those there is still a filter near the engine and fuel pump abit always gets through.

[Airzone]

RedLineGTR - Yeah, so I hear. The car is consistantly flat when I fill it up. Anyway, I don't care. If the gauge says I should add more fuel after only 45 litres and the tank is 60ish litres, then I won't be running out of fuel

[benm]

Originally posted by skyzerr33

mine gives a quick flash at 15litres left

then stays on solid with 10 litres left.

Thats correct !

You will know when you are getting really low (ie less than 5L's) coz the car will chug alittle harder when trying to start the engine after turning the key.

How many of you have changed your fuel filters in the last 6mths? Its a 15min job and costs less than $15 and you would be totally amazed at the gunk an old fuel filter will be full of.

[MM2death]

Isn't the 32 filter a bit harder to replace?

[benm]

sorry nfi bout 32's.

[Nizmo]

when i first got my car - typical car dealership had no fuel in it - took it immediately to the service station to get fuel - cos i test drove it about 5 days beforehand and it was on empty then - it ate up $60 worth when i decided that was enough!! so at about 96 cents a litre im guessing that the tanks are about 65 litres?

[benm]

65L yes. The most I have ever put in is 63.5L but that was with an extra 1L after it clicked hehe oops.

[Airzone]

My skyline has a little trouble responding to the ol' shake'n'click filling technique, compared to all my old cars where I could normally squeeze in a couple of extra litres... Perhaps because I can't shake the skyline and anything more than a stiff breeze would shake up the other cars like a roller coaster...

Is it really that bad to fill a car past the point of clicking?

[Ash]

my instruction manual for the car says that the fuel warning light comes on when u have 5 ~ 7 Litres left in the tank!