Quattro Fuel tanks
#1
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Quattro Fuel tanks
I was recently curious as to how far my car would travel when the fuel guage
and digi readout showed 0 miles left, I was concered after noticing the
guage went down quite fast by putting in smaller amounts of fuel example
£15.00 roughly 3 gallons.
So I filled up and let the car bleep as it does at approx 60 miles left and
the needle was approaching the red line and carried on driving, I had a can
of fuel in the boot for safty sake and reset the mileometer when i hit 0 on
the digi readout.
This is where it gets interesting, normally I would expect a reserve of say
1 gallon max usually less from the point the needle shows red and the cars
shows 0, but my car is still driving fine 90 miles later, I will let it get
too 100 miles and see what happens, but was interested to hear from anyone
with the quattro twin tank design on a B6 1.8T or 3.0 A4, mine is a 2002
model.
It seems the guage is not really faulty as it may be reading low fuel from
one tank but the other tank is still supplying the fuel? I do not know...
Any thought?
BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
40mpg+ I was just curious.
and digi readout showed 0 miles left, I was concered after noticing the
guage went down quite fast by putting in smaller amounts of fuel example
£15.00 roughly 3 gallons.
So I filled up and let the car bleep as it does at approx 60 miles left and
the needle was approaching the red line and carried on driving, I had a can
of fuel in the boot for safty sake and reset the mileometer when i hit 0 on
the digi readout.
This is where it gets interesting, normally I would expect a reserve of say
1 gallon max usually less from the point the needle shows red and the cars
shows 0, but my car is still driving fine 90 miles later, I will let it get
too 100 miles and see what happens, but was interested to hear from anyone
with the quattro twin tank design on a B6 1.8T or 3.0 A4, mine is a 2002
model.
It seems the guage is not really faulty as it may be reading low fuel from
one tank but the other tank is still supplying the fuel? I do not know...
Any thought?
BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
40mpg+ I was just curious.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Ronny wrote:
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Ronny wrote:
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Ronny wrote:
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
#5
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Ronny wrote:
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
> BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> 40mpg+ I was just curious.
Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
it read 0 miles.
I suspect it's just calibrated conservatively to make sure you don't
actually run out unexpectedly.
Do they still have reserve tanks? I thought they were done away with
years ago.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Graham <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Graham <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Graham <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
Graham <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
> Ronny wrote:
>
> > BTW the guage and car are working perfect, and I am getting very healthy MPG
> > 40mpg+ I was just curious.
>
> Jeremy Clarkson did an interesting test with this in an Audi (A6?). I
> forget the results but he did go for what seemed like a long time after
> it read 0 miles.
>
Can't remember which but it was the 4.0 v8 turbo diesel or similar,
London-Edinburgh and back.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
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Re: Quattro Fuel tanks
"Ronny" wrote
> This is where it gets interesting, normally I would expect a reserve of
> say 1 gallon max usually less from the point the needle shows red and the
> cars shows 0, but my car is still driving fine 90 miles later, I will let
> it get too 100 miles and see what happens,
Whoa! Brave man. I once went about 20 miles past "0" and chickened out
after that, but that was on a B5 1.8Tq.
FYI... it's not good for your fuel pump to be running on "fumes."
Cheers,
Pete