I want an after market gas level indicator in my car. Reason being, my current one fails to read below 1/4 of a tank.
However recently I’ve noticed the light does come on with around 1-3 gallons left, so today I go out and start the car before work and head off.
About 100 yards down Elmwood it runs choppy and I’m like son of a bitch. Press the gas and it sputters and dies in the middle of lunch rush hour.
Some homeless people come up and offer to help push it to the side, I gladly accept and thank them and of course the typical banter about being homeless in Buffalo and I just shrug away on my way.
I call AAA and apparently they don’t offer a roadside refill service, just a tow to a gas station, etc. Well I was like a mile from Sunoco so I just make the trip, and wtf they don’t have gas cans for sale!?!?!?!
So then I go another 1/2 mile up the road and walk into Mobil, and at 2.50/gal of course they have the mos expensive crappiest 1 gallon can every.
$10 for a 1 gallon can that has some weird release mechnaism that caused me to lose about 1/4 of a gallon.
So needless to say I want to install a video camera in my gas tank with an alert that lets me know I’m below 3 gallons. So I can see all he bs on it. RAR
Oh yeah… I am only ranting because of this it caused me to be late to work and I know time warner is gonna be a cock knocker about it and do something gay. Lame…
And yes I know this could have been avoided by simply keeping my car above the 1/4 tank mark.
haha. that sux.
I have to drop the tank on my 4runner myself. The gauge only reads when its past 3/4 tank. when the gas goes below 3/4, it’ll just drop to E, and i have no way of telling how much gas i have left.
Exactly what I was thinking. You ought to know how many miles you can go on your daily that has a shit indicator. Or you know, dont just wait till under a 1/4 tank.
Battery was disconnected the other day due to clearing an CEL, so I had no recolection of my trip.
Normally I do go by the trip cuz its around 400/tank. However the trip read as of this morning 8.1 miles and not to mention bad o2 in front was causing me to get worse than normal mileage so I had no idea where the gas level truley was, all you noobs.
Exactly what I was thinking. You ought to know how many miles you can go on your daily that has a shit indicator. Or you know, dont just wait till under a 1/4 tank.
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Always gotta be a dick, haha. As I posted, yes could have been fine by not going below, but usually around the 1/4 mile tank its got a good 125miles left so I could only have assumed I was fine because it read 1/4 tank.
Anywho, @ work now, no harm done yet from the lateness.
And yes I know this could have been avoided by simply keeping my car above the 1/4 tank mark.
I realize run out of gas = user problem. However let a fellow poster rant, jesus. Funny thing was I was planning on stopping at the Noco down the street because they had lower prices.
Oh yeah… I am only ranting because of this it caused me to be late to work and I know time warner is gonna be a cock knocker about it and do something gay. Lame…
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Usually it’s a written warning, unless you lied and said you were sick. And even then normally it needs to be an hour in advance.
Unless you have a badass sup in which case it might become a verbal.
I delivered pizza in a truck with no gas gauge and no working odometer. Oh, and if I put more than $10 worth of gas (which would = $15 in todays prices), the truck would reek of gas because of the bad filler neck.:lol: It would start to sputter on turns, and I knew that meant I had to get gas at the nearest station. Then one day it decided to no longer give me that 15-20 mile warning, and it just died on rt. 62. Bone dry. Then I decided to sell the truck.
Haha, I had an old ranger that did the same thing. :lol:
Only other issue though is you couldn’t tell when it was full when filling it because it kept triggering the auto shut-off even when empty. Then the same thing happened, it no longer gave warnings after finally chaning the original fuel filter that was still in place 18 years later and I ended up selling it.
