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Filling your gas tank - Darth-Apple - May 12th, 2014
I'm pretty well accustomed nowadays to always driving with the empty light on. I can usually get another 30-40 miles or so once it comes on, so I don't see it as really being an issue.
Do you usually fill your gas tank, or are you more like me and drive only on what you actually need to make it to your destination?
RE: Filling your gas tank - Gmdykfuiygh66476 - May 19th, 2014
I too wait until it's on its very last drop, not that I drive very much
RE: Filling your gas tank - simlink - May 19th, 2014
Depends. Spring/summer/fall I'll wait till an 1/8th of a tank is left. During the winter I don't let it go much below a 1/4 tank. Don't want to run out of gas during a snowstorm, that's for sure!
As for how much I put in, typically I'll fill it. Depends on how much gas is and my mood.
RE: Filling your gas tank - Darth-Apple - May 19th, 2014
I literally put $2.18 in the tank this morning. Yep, it's illogical, but I'm just that cheap.
RE: Filling your gas tank - simlink - May 24th, 2014
I one had $7.xx go in, but the pump kept failing. So I just gave up.
Pulled into another station down the way, no problems.
RE: Filling your gas tank - Darth-Apple - May 24th, 2014
(May 24th, 2014 at 3:59 AM)simlink Wrote: I one had $7.xx go in, but the pump kept failing. So I just gave up.
Pulled into another station down the way, no problems.
That's odd. There is a gas station I regularly use that has a slow pump, but I just avoid that pump now that I know about it.
RE: Filling your gas tank - simlink - May 24th, 2014
Yea, I wasn't sure what was going on. Everyone else seemed fine.
And we have one station that is just sooo slow, it's brutal. There's another one that's quicker but it's a bit out of the way. Near a grocery store I frequent, so not too inconvenient, at least.
RE: Filling your gas tank - CapTon - May 27th, 2014
I'm always afraid something will happen when that light comes on, so I fill up on gas whenever it does. I don't like waiting.
even if money's tight. And with gas prices nowadays.
RE: Filling your gas tank - simlink - May 27th, 2014
Gas prices here don't even make sense. Sometimes the price drops 8 cents per litre from morning to evening. Then the next morning, it's back up again. Then drops again. Rinse, repeat.
Here we're paying above the equivalent of $5/US gallon. It hurts.
RE: Filling your gas tank - Darth-Apple - May 27th, 2014
It's around US $3.65/gallon where I am. It's not too bad yet, but summer is coming.
RE: Filling your gas tank - CapTon - May 27th, 2014
Same here, Blake
prices are too high.
RE: Filling your gas tank - Guardian - July 29th, 2017
My wife freaks out because she's at a quarter of a tank and I'm telling her she has plenty of time.
I usually run it below a quarter of a tank, then fill it all the way up. Unless the gas is expensive, then I'll do just enough to get me to another station.
RE: Filling your gas tank - Gmdykfuiygh66476 - July 30th, 2017
I usually run it down until the light comes on. 1/4 tank might as well be full for me though :eek:
RE: Filling your gas tank - SpookyZalost - July 30th, 2017
I try to top off my oil and fill my tank at about 1/2, it's not a bad practice lol
RE: Filling your gas tank - Guardian - July 30th, 2017
(July 30th, 2017 at 7:14 AM)pupper_donut Wrote: I usually run it down until the light comes on. 1/4 tank might as well be full for me though :eek:
Living in the DANGER ZONE!
RE: Filling your gas tank - SpookyZalost - July 31st, 2017
(July 30th, 2017 at 3:18 PM)Guardian Wrote:(July 30th, 2017 at 7:14 AM)pupper_donut Wrote: I usually run it down until the light comes on. 1/4 tank might as well be full for me though :eek:
Living in the DANGER ZONE!