Car Fuel Light

Been arguing with my girlfriend about filling the car (02 Golf) up. She waits till the fuel light is on before filling up and I say once a week or about 1/4 of a tank left.

Help me settle this please.

Sounds like a conversation rather than an argument. Is she lying?

ohh there's a poll now

I'll go back to my impatient corner of the room ..

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Sounds like a conversation rather than an argument. Is she lying?

No it was an argument she folded her arm's and everything

How old is the car? My old man has always advised me to fill up older cars before they get too low (keep it 1/4 full or above) as all the crap in the tank will otherwise jam the fuel filter. The one time I ignored his advise and ran my 106 nearly dry, it had a problem the next day with the fuel filter being clogged up.

[the_lone_wolf]

mine will do the best part of 50 miles after the light comes on, so i wait for the light, then do another 40 or so. only at home though, where i know how far the nearest station is...

why fill it up more often than you have to?

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

why fill it up more often than you have to?

Well to stop the crud getting to the filter and as a precaution in case you have to go somewhere in a hurry.

Technically, She's right.

If you are filling up at 1/4 tank and say the tank is a 60 litre tank, you'll be carrying araound an extra 7.5 kg (12KG for 15 litres but you'll be using it so average 7.5) on average more than she is. So she's getting more MPG. Over about 5000 years she'd have enough of a saving to buy a big mac!

And if you share the car, she's using more fuel that you've paid for than sho paid for.

I'd start filling up when the light comes on if I were you. She's robbing you

Carl

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Diveboy

Well to stop the crud getting to the filter and as a precaution in case you have to go somewhere in a hurry.

i drive a modern car so no issues with the fuel filter, and none with any other car i've ever used or heard of where people have left it til the light to fill up

also, anywhere where i'd need to get to "in a hurry" that was far enough away that it required me to refuel would take so long that the time it would take me to refuel wouldn't make a difference

or i could just leave 5 minutes earlier

or take the bike

or the other bike

or use one of the other cars in my household

or get a lift with the owner of one of the other cars in my houshold

or get a lift with a neighbour

or call a taxi

i could go on...

Originally Posted by Berlin

Technically, She's right.

If you are filling up at 1/4 tank and say the tank is a 60 litre tank, you'll be carrying araound an extra 7.5 kg (12KG for 15 litres but you'll be using it so average 7.5) on average more than she is. So she's getting more MPG. Over about 5000 years she'd have enough of a saving to buy a big mac!

And if you share the car, she's using more fuel that you've paid for than sho paid for.

I'd start filling up when the light comes on if I were you. She's robbing you

Carl

Girls on average weigh 7.5kg+ more than men