If you have a nuclear powered car it’s a very bad ideal to drive it completely dry.  That exposes the core and leads to a meltdown, which is a real hit against your insurance.

Charybdis - 21 March 2008 11:15 AM

If you have a nuclear powered car it’s a very bad ideal to drive it completely dry.  That exposes the core and leads to a meltdown, which is a real hit against your insurance.

Point well taken.

Charybdis - 21 March 2008 11:15 AM

If you have a nuclear powered car it’s a very bad ideal to drive it completely dry.  That exposes the core and leads to a meltdown, which is a real hit against your insurance.

Arnt thoes only legal in North Korea? 

I have a “miles to 0” gague…but I don’t trust it.  I know I can go for a few miles on empty…but I don’t like to push it with the kiddies.

Charybdis - 21 March 2008 11:15 AM

If you have a nuclear powered car it’s a very bad ideal to drive it completely dry.  That exposes the core and leads to a meltdown, which is a real hit against your insurance.

I hate when that happens.

I once ran a solar powered car dry.  The nova was impressive, though.

I’ve noticed with the Corolla I’m currently driving is that as soon as the needle hits the quarter tank, it starts dropping twice as fast as it was.  My dad just thinks it’s always been dodgy like that.

I have driven it when it’s been flashing the fuel light at me, but no more than about 20km.  I’ve not wanted to push it to it’s limit!

They should put their “reserve/buffer” in the manuals….
Some people really want to know the exact amount of fuel.

Seems reasonable.
Now that I know about this buffer, I think I could make a law suit from it somehow.
Car Companys are wise to save their butts now.

The manual for my car does not say it has a ‘buffer’.
I could sue them.

Give me a week a reasearch, I could come up with hundreds simler cases.

DJ_Canada - 22 March 2008 08:48 PM

The manual for my car does not say it has a ‘buffer’.

No, but I’m sure the manual tells you what the gas tank capacity is somewhere.  If you only put about 10 gallons in when it’s on “E” but it’s a 13 gallon tank. . .

Once I did run a truck dry.  The gauge didn’t work, so you were SUPPOSED to top it off every time you drove it.  Since it was sort of family vehicle, I was not the only one using it…and I got in it one day after my brother had driven it.  HE says, “You can go like 300 miles on this tank…so you don’t need to put gas in it, I’ll do it next time I drove.“  How nice of my brother.  HA!  He DIDN’T tell me he had only cleared the odometer reading thing before he was supposed to & what *I* thought was 300 miles & what HE thought was 300 miles was 2 different things.

So there I was.  Pregnant. No gas.  My family was out of town.  Including my dumbass brother.  Luckily Jason was able to rescue me (this was before we were married).  So when I got home I went through my brother’s underwear drawer (where he keeps things he wants to keep private.  He figures no one would bother his underwear).  I found some cash & put some gas in it myself.