View Full Version : Do SVs run out of petrol easily?
Just a question, like....
Random, and odd question really Lozzo. All vehicles do, however usually, the issue is human error rather than the fault of the vehicle, but not always.
I was asking on behalf of another orger, he knows who he is ;-)
EssexDave
23-09-10, 01:51 AM
own up! c'mon name and shame them!
garynortheast
23-09-10, 07:02 AM
Only if you don't put more in.
andrewsmith
23-09-10, 07:20 AM
only if you don't watch the mileage you've done.
Come on!! Own up who ever it is
Do SVs run out of petrol easily?
mine doesnt, everytime the liggle yellow light starts flashing it magically fills it's self up when i next pass a petrol station...
...that or i keep blacking out due to the prices i'm about to pay :smt002
pushed mine quite a long way but never actually run out. By my calculations (K3 here) by the time the yellow light comes on, you've got between a 3rd and a quarter of the miles you've already done on that tank left.
eg when the light came on at 160 miles, i've pushed it to 200 without any problems. But all SVs are not the same so ymmv.
Nope - not on their own anyway!
own up! c'mon name and shame them!
It would be rude and very wrong of me to name and shame Zunkus because he and his family treated me so well when we met on Tuesday... Ooops, I just did :-)
Bluefish
23-09-10, 09:23 AM
Must be faulty, cos no vehicle I've ever had has run out, I'd take it back and get my money back. Ha ha lol.
maviczap
23-09-10, 10:21 AM
Range is about 170 miles. Is that possible to do in Malta :p
since I've sold mine K3 Silver SV, I cannot answer your question. :silent:
Must be faulty, cos no vehicle I've ever had has run out, I'd take it back and get my money back. Ha ha lol.
Of fuel anyway. Oil is a different matter... ;)
He's taking the mickey out of me guys... it's because I ran out of petrol when I was supposed to be showing him around our crazy little island they call Malta. Second time it happened to me in 11 years. I'm allowed to run out once every ten years OK Lozz! :) I'll take this occasion to thank whoever threw away his empty 2 litre water bottle on the side of the road so that little brother SimonSVS could fly to the nearest and fill it for me with fairy liquid (petrol is coloured green here).
Range is about 170 miles. Is that possible to do in Malta :p
That's what's odd... I ran out at 170Km. Normally I get 240-250Km. Strange really. The only thing that might have made the difference is that prior to that day's ride I rode my SV in a very revvie manner never going beyond third gear... I'm having a middle age crises... yeah I know...
benji106
23-09-10, 02:41 PM
Good effort, I have run out of petrol more times than I would care to count, not on the sv tho (touch wood)
'll take this occasion to thank whoever threw away his empty 2 litre water bottle on the side of the road so that little brother SimonSVS could fly to the nearest and fill it for me with fairy liquid (petrol is coloured green here).
You're lucky, in the UK you wouldn't be allowed to fill a random plastic bottle with petrol at a petrol station, has to be an approved container.
plowsie
23-09-10, 02:47 PM
Best one is when you fill up and forget to switch the reserve back to on...
You've got reserve on an SV? Odd!
Bluefish
23-09-10, 02:53 PM
Of fuel anyway. Oil is a different matter... ;)
True, so I took it back and got another one with added newness, lol.:D
You're lucky, in the UK you wouldn't be allowed to fill a random plastic bottle with petrol at a petrol station, has to be an approved container.
This is Malta mate. Some of us ride in flip-flops. Oh by-the-way... Lozzo rode in t-shirt and Jeans here! When in Rome...
plowsie
23-09-10, 02:56 PM
You've got reserve on an SV? Odd!
Narp, used to have one on a CBR mate :)
dizzyblonde
23-09-10, 03:45 PM
I know a blonde who ran out of petrol once on her SV. She had to push the bike home. The day after she had a Yorkshire bloke called Chris come have a look at it for her. The words went
'What do you need in your bike to make it run?'
'errrr petrol'
#slaps forhead in embarrassed manner#
'well its ok, as the fuel light has a fault, its not come on, you dumbass'
She won't let that happen again:rolleyes:
...well its ok, as the fuel light has a fault, its not come on...
My sender unit for the said fuel light is knackered. Lozzo said that most probably it's got some corrosion which can be cleaned ok so I'll try that. Hope the tank won't leak after I reinstall this from inspection.
cb1000rsteve
23-09-10, 08:16 PM
I've done 37 miles on from the yellow light first coming on (K6) before filling up. That took the miles from that tank to 176 but maybe there where more miles left and i didn't have the bottle to go any further
dizzyblonde
23-09-10, 10:29 PM
My sender unit for the said fuel light is knackered. Lozzo said that most probably it's got some corrosion which can be cleaned ok so I'll try that. Hope the tank won't leak after I reinstall this from inspection.
The blondes was a simple case of cleaning up a corroded switch/connector/sensor, its worked ever since.
punyXpress
23-09-10, 10:34 PM
[QUOTE=zunkus;2375877]This is Malta mate. Some of us ride in flip-flops. Oh by-the-way... Lozzo rode in t-shirt and Jeans here! When in Rome... he'll be wearing that long white dress ?
This is Malta mate. Some of us ride in flip-flops. Oh by-the-way... Lozzo rode in t-shirt and Jeans here! When in Rome...
he'll be wearing that long white dress ?
I'll leave that to the paedophile-loving nazi uber-priest
This is Malta mate. Some of us ride in flip-flops. Oh by-the-way... Lozzo rode in t-shirt and Jeans here! When in Rome...
Only for a short time, it's just too scary and I feel like I'm riding naked. Driving standards here are not the same as Britain by a long long way, but that's not the thing that worries me, it's the condition of the road surface.
Only for a short time, it's just too scary and I feel like I'm riding naked.
The thought of Lozzo riding naked has me terrified as well =;
The thought of Lozzo riding naked has me terrified as well =;
It's been done - naked wheelies past a packed pub car park one evening.
Not here you didn't, you'd have hit a pothole with your rear wheel and jetted your naked bum off to the moon!
Not here you didn't, you'd have hit a pothole with your rear wheel and jetted your naked bum off to the moon!
I'd have popped into the Mater Dei Hospital first.
I get the feeling the Maltese wouldn't appreciate my naked wheelie antics, they don't even let the chicks get their wabs out for the lads on the beach.
BanannaMan
19-10-10, 05:37 AM
I never worry about running out of petrol.
The bike can go further on a tank than I can go without a pee so problem solved.
If it's been 100 miles I looking for a stop!
Might as well fill the bike up at the same time.
You know you're old when....
but BM you have an advantage - you can just pee in the tank and it actually increases the octane of the remaining excuse for fuel you have in there ;)
hongman
19-10-10, 01:31 PM
On my very first bike Honda MT50(I was about 13, 14?) I ran out of fuel at home, so for some absurd reason me and my mate put Cream Soda in the tank.
Not sure what we were expecting, chaos ensued!
BanannaMan
20-10-10, 03:26 AM
but BM you have an advantage - you can just pee in the tank and it actually increases the octane of the remaining excuse for fuel you have in there ;)
Sadly, that just might work. :(
I'd love to give my personal opinion on Ethynol fuels but being in the industry, I can only say, it is the ever brilliant US Government who is mandating the use of ethynol in fuels. (soon to include diesel as well)
Feel free to post my on-site petrol fill from a disposed plastic water bottle Lozzo. I was thinking you'd have posted it by now you lazy kwak :)
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