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12-25-2012, 01:45 AM | #67 | |
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I fill up when I have 1/8 tank or about when car says i have 40 miles left I've filled up couple times at 10 Miles and one time at 0 miles but that runes your fuel pump not filter at 0. Now you sound like my sister and my best friend and yea they fill up how you do but they smoke like chimneys only other reason is you don't like sticker shock you would rather see 30 to 40 dollar fill ups instead of 50 to 60 dollar fill ups |
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12-25-2012, 04:37 AM | #68 | |
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12-25-2012, 04:50 AM | #70 |
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my new thread should be why when ppl are wrong about something they revert to name calling and grammar and spelling like we are in a class taking a exam.
Ppl, no one is right all the time, as far as I know, no one has ever choke to death by swallowing their pride and just admitting to being wrong. my thread was just to see what other were doing, not to sell any one any thing so do not take it personal if you are doing something different then someone else. Like they say, Do U, Do what U do! |
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12-25-2012, 12:59 PM | #71 | |
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These links are about the "reserve fuel" in your tank, which is the fuel that remains in the tank when the needle is at "E". Meanwhile, nobody here advocated draining your tank beyond "E". As I said before, the fuel indicator is designed and adjusted exactly to prevent any "sludge" problems when it is run all the way to "E". (Unless you intentionally dump half a bucket of sludge into your tank that is). So, what is it you are trying to say by this rather inane repetitive flood-posting of these irrelevant links? Well, apparently this is the reason you couldn't even properly understand what the articles at your links were about. Last edited by AndreyT; 12-25-2012 at 01:57 PM.. |
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12-25-2012, 01:18 PM | #72 |
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12-25-2012, 10:03 PM | #73 |
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I agree...
missing a tee time is the worst, messes up your whole round in my opinion. I usually gas up when I have a quarter tank left. Makes me feel like im paying less for gas. lol. |
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These links are about the "reserve fuel" in your tank, which is the fuel that remains in the tank when the needle is at "E". Meanwhile, nobody here advocated draining your tank beyond "E". As I said before, the fuel indicator is designed and adjusted exactly to prevent any "sludge" problems when it is run all the way to "E". (Unless you intentionally dump half a bucket of sludge into your tank that is). So I take it that no one here does this even though they posted it, mmm. |
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12-26-2012, 12:44 AM | #75 |
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Again, it is just a simple post to see what others are doing, then it turns into name calling and spell checking lol crazy, andrey, bling singh, das, jason n mike y if the thread is so stupid why do you keep replying to it? You must comprehend, now that makes you what? Stupid, or you really like it, so please for those who do not like the thread move on, do not reply with your smart comments no one wants to read it, you are no help to ppl who may not know something about the thread, go somewhere else and vent your rage, it is sad that everytime someone on this site post something and someone does not like it they respond with all this negative stuff, if you do not like the thread and you think it is stupid skip it go to another that u may like.
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12-26-2012, 12:48 AM | #76 | ||
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Read my lips one more time: nobody here advocates draining your tank beyond the point when the fuel level gauge reports "Empty". (Please, look up "to advocate" and "beyond" in your favorite dictionary.) I don't understand what point you are trying to make by quoting people who claim they drained their fuel tank to the point where the gauge says "Empty". Now, do you understand the difference between: 1) fuel needle on the dashboard pointing at "E", and 2) the fuel tank being actually empty? Do you understand the difference between: 1) draining the tank to the point where the needle points at "E", and 2) draining the tank beyond that point? Do you understand the difference between: 1) occasionally using up the fuel reserve in an emergency situation, and 2) advocating routine use of fuel reserve? I sincerely hope that you can answer "yes" to at least some of these questions. |
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12-26-2012, 01:01 AM | #77 |
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Usually fill up w/ a quarter tank or so to go. Really depends though, I'm not very anal about filling up at a specific time.. just whenever it's convenient for me.
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12-27-2012, 03:59 AM | #78 | |
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12-27-2012, 09:28 AM | #81 |
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LoL funny topic!
I fill up when the car bongs first time. I get around 350 miles till it bongs to fuel, and I wish I had a bigger tank to make that 500 Miles. I want to visit the petrol station as little as possible. Why would you fill up when you are 1/2???? That means you are filling up nearly twice as often as you need to! Either way, it sounds like you have been drinking the cool aid about running your tank to empty and now out of paranoia only use half your range .... To each there own |
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12-27-2012, 01:09 PM | #82 | |
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sludge isn't going to find its way into the tank unless some foreign material is put in there. gas is a solvent, so I suspect that's why I've always seen clean tanks (other than maybe a few sand particles). Though it is possible that pumping contaminated gas into your tank can cause sludge, but then it wouldn't matter when you were filling up your tank, weather it was on E or you had a half tank left. If fuel pumps were actually that susceptible to failure from running low on gas, you'd see people's cars breaking down all the time, as many people only put a few dollars of gas in their cars at a time, and are always running on empty. The fact is you don't see this happening because it's very rare, and likely NOT caused by running low on gas all the time. Really, the only fuel pump failures I can recall, are from BMW owners, and those failures deal with external pumps, not in-tank pumps. |
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12-27-2012, 01:13 PM | #83 | |
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12-27-2012, 01:17 PM | #84 |
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I literaly fill my tank till it shows ---. Even at that I risk it driving another 20 miles after but its all freeway and that helps --- its scary at times. So far I have not been stranded... (knock on wood)
I have to stop doing this I know.... This should be on my new resolution list for years to come. |
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12-27-2012, 01:54 PM | #85 |
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I always run down to empty (15miles remaining) and then fill up to three quarters, hate filling it up to max, the car becomes too heavy... Extra weight is not what the e93 needs...
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12-27-2012, 02:05 PM | #86 |
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no wonder my e90 feels like a feather all the time no spare tire and no gas...LOL
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12-27-2012, 03:05 PM | #87 |
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I run my car until the light turns on and fill it to the top.
Everyone says to have extra in there just in case... But then again, most of us live in the city where there are gas stations every 2-5 miles. I would imagine if the tank was empty and the pump was continuously trying to suck in fluid, it would be bad.
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