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The gas gauge is wrong. Showed 1/2 tank. Waiting on the wife to bring me some gas. Luckily I was only about 3 miles from home. Time for some sending unit trouble shooting.
got home then the seatbelt retractor quit working. 🙄 Geez.
Last edited by speedreed8; Apr 18, 2020 at 07:11 PM.
I previously had a car that I was too lazy to fix a bad fuel gauge. I spent $3 on a couple of dry erase markers and each time I fueled, I wrote the mileage on the upper corner of the windshield.
In order to find out far I could travel, I intentionally ran it out of gas from a full tank while I had 2 gallons in a can in the trunk. knew that I could drive a specific number of miles before it was time to find a gas station.
That was the only time I ever ran out of gas in that car before I sold it after putting almost 20,000 miles on it.
Yea I learned this the hard way. My gauge doesn't even work. Instead of visually checking down the tank, I went out on a cruise and got stranded on the left turn lane. Luckily traffic was light and ran to the near by gas station. Got 2 gallon and quickly filled her up.
Now before I leave the garage, I make it a habit to check the tank and fill up on each drive.
We never had fuel gauges on our flat bottom drag boats.
We would notch the ski flag handle and dip it in the saddle tanks to see how much fuel we had left.
You never wanted to run out of gas even a mile from the fuel dock in a boat with three inches of freeboard above the water line.
Luckily I never did.
I ran several boats like that for over 20 years until I had kids and bought my first Malibu tournament ski boat with a fuel gauge.
Last edited by OldCarBum; Apr 20, 2020 at 12:41 PM.
I Hate it when !
