so I got in the car this morning and thought - ooh not much fuel left but I'll make it easy on half that and fill up on the way home.
2 miles down the road the miles left in the tank jumped to half (going downhill?) - not looking quite so clever now...
dropping steadily.......have I got a leak or something?? not much I can do about driving style while rolling, crawling, occasionally driving through miles of motorway rush hour traffic, just fingers crossed!
made it anyway 8 miles left in the tank - bit of uphill or flat or something near the end and it started to creep back up and look more healthy!
back in the car after work - 8 miles left and only about 2 miles to the nearest garage. cool
half a mile later it drops to 3miles left..... not liking the look of this so much! there's a few sets of traffic lights - - all bloody red of course. Uh oh, COME ON!!!
0 miles left....Oh cr@p.
then
_______________________ flatline on the miles to go gauge.......
what does that even mean??! Am I a ghost? Is the car going to explode? car appears to still be going, just get round the corner please......I have no real idea of whether this is bad for the car as I've never let it get really low, ever in 21yrs driving
anyway I made it by the power of fairies or something. thank god for that! I have never let any car get below about 10 miles (used to be a quarter tank hard times financially these days!!) Is this bad for the car at all or does it just kinda stop eventually? And how much is actually in the tank when it's flatlined??!
I'll be trying not to do that again.